Doctor: Teen Sex Is Killing Our Children

Every day a silent epidemic strikes 8,000 American youngsters, warns Dr. Meg Meeker, and it is killing and physically and psychologically crippling hordes of America’s children.

Dr. Meeker, author of the new book "Epidemic," told a rapt C-PAC audience Friday that she was speaking "on behalf of the millions of American teen-agers who cannot speak for themselves, who cannot articulate how to preserve the sanctity of their lives as they are being crushed amidst our culture which is so toxic to their sensibilities and their sensitivities to their psyches, to their bodies, to their sexuality."

"In 2003 we are living in the midst of a public health epidemic of sexually transmitted diseases amongst 12- to 18-year-old children, and an epidemic of depression related to much of the promiscuous sexual activity amongst our youth."

The epidemic has been "caused by our silence as sit by and allow big businesses to use sexual advertising to our children to sell their stuff," she charged.

"Selling sex to our children makes a lot of money for a lot of businesses. There’s one reason why we live in the most promiscuous nation on the face of the earth. There’s one reason why we allow sex to be sold to our children: money."

The results are horrifying. "We live in the midst of an epidemic of diseases, bacteria and viruses which are making their way up to the beautiful and tender reproductive tracts of our children and strangling them towards infertility and cancer and threatening their very lives.

"What I have seen in my beautiful quiet and suburban northern Michigan practice is occurring nationwide, and when I turned to the medical literature two years ago to see if what I was experiencing was unique I found that the Center for Disease Control talks about the hidden epidemic of 15 million Americans getting a new sexually transmitted disease every year and two thirds of them being in people under 25, my patients, your children, the kids on your kids’ basketball teams and soccer teams and ballet recitals."

According to the New England Journal of Medicine, one in five Americans 12 years and older test positive for genital herpes.

Forty-six percent of young teen-age girls after just one episode of intercourse contracts human papilloma virus (HPV), and 14 percent of them will go on to develop signs of cervical cancer, and more women’s lives are given over to cervical cancer every year than to HIV and AIDS.

This, she warns "is not a time for mothers and fathers and doctors and teachers and politicians to be silent about the sanctity of the life of our teen-agers."

What has been our answer to this out-of-control scourge, she asked. Condoms. "We have taught 14-, 13-, 12-year-old kids to put condoms on bananas. We have done this for 15 or 20 years."

In 1960 there were just two sexually transmitted diseases, syphilis and gonorrhea. After 20 years of teaching our kids how to use condoms, we now boast 30 or more sexually transmitted diseases among 12- to 18-year-old children. Condoms have failed as an answer.

"A little over a year ago the National Institutes for Health reviewed all the best condom literature available in the world. They found that condoms, if used 100 percent of the time correctly, may reduce the risk of HIV by 87 percent in men and women, and it may reduce the risk of gonorrhea in men, but for all of the other sexually transmitted diseases which infect beautiful heterosexual children across the country there is insufficient evidence that condoms work at all.

"Yet we are still teaching condoms and more condoms in our schools. As a physician I consider it malpractice to hand one of my patients a condom and tell them that they will be safe when the NIH doesn’t say so.

"We have the answer. It is abstinence education. Many opponents of abstinence say it doesn’t work - it does work – all the time. The kids are willing to learn it. Are we willing to teach it?"

Sex among girls is leading to an epidemic of cancer, she revealed. "The 14-, 15-year-old girl’s cervix cannot handle bacteria and viruses. They flourish and turn into cancer much more quickly than in a 25-year-old."

All of this promiscuous sexual activity among youngsters is having another deadly effect: serious depression and sometimes suicide.

"We are living in an epidemic of depression, where one out of three American teen-agers have thought of killing themselves, much of this related to sexual activity.

"Are we willing to tell teen-agers that sexual health trumps sexual freedom?" she asked, adding that we’d better be.

they are being crushed amidst our culture which is so toxic to their sensibilities and their sensitivities to their psyches, to their bodies, to their sexuality."

So sad but true, to many parents are "friends" to their kids and not parents and
further set the "example" by having no moral compass
No absolutes anymore just "opinions" (Judges 17:5)

For real insight into what kids in the PC age are up against, I highly recommend Anne Hendershott's The Politics of Deviance, a book I first saw reviewed here on FreeRepublic. Among other things, she talks about the public reaction to the PBS special "The Lost Children of Rockdale County," the story of an epidemic of sexual diseases among wealthy suburban kids. Many of the "sexual freedom" crowd were outraged that parents and educators were calling for abstinence training instead of encouraging the kids to continue finding more natural outlets for their interests.

"We have the answer. It is abstinence education. Many opponents of abstinence say it doesn’t work - it does work – all the time. The kids are willing to learn it. Are we willing to teach it?"

-------------------

It will soon be 40 years since the massive sexual revolution of the mid '60s. We have parents and now grandparens who are just as dedicated to pushing promiscuous sex as they were 15, 20, and 35 years ago. That is the problem. The answer to the question is NO.

I highly recommend Anne Hendershott's The Politics of Deviance, a book I first saw reviewed here on FreeRepublic.

---------------------------

I have the book in my library. It is well worth a read.

Even at this late date, the Baby Boomers simply cannot bring themselves to concede that their parents were actually right about almost everything.

I saw that PBS special. Absolutely chilling. Even the somewhat concerned county nurse in the film who started tracking the disease didn't have any sensible answers. It was just a "shake yer head what can we do" attitude. As for the parents of those kids, they were no where in sight or in denial.

I'm in my mid-forties. Maybe, I'm getting old, but I don't recall too many girls before college (let alone before the age of 14!) having numerous sexual experiences at my old high school and then brag about it like a few (emphasis on few) of the more creepy, ungentlemanly (probably dishonest braggert) jerk guys did. Today, it's a badge of honor for boys and girls alike to have had several partners before the age of 16. Sad. Especially for the girls. As if there are no longer immature guys who are after one thing--and it ain't love in a romantic sense or a meaningful commitment!!!

Lost Children
"The Lost Children of Rockdale County" Teen sex tales turn national focus to Rockdale
By MAJ McKenna Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer Seventeen cases ...
pw1.netcom.com/~efny/LostChildren.htm - 15k - Cached - Similar pages

This is all, of course, absolutely true. One of the enormous problems we face in this nation has to do with a kind of moral blindness that is a direct result of the collapse in sexual morality. The baby boomer generation were the first to embrace this "new morality" on a wide scale and the result has been nothing less than catastrophic. Few baby boomers are able to admit that they were profoundly wrong about this issue and that their own conduct and behavior was, frankly, sinful. This is one of the big reasons Bill Clinton skated for his lawless conduct. Because of their own immorality, vast numbers of this generation are simply unable to make any sort of moral judgement at all - on any issue - except to reflexively condemn as "intolerant", "prudish", or "sexually repressed" those who still try to adhere to the now-abandoned Judeo-Christian moral code. To paraphrase the scriptures, their consciences have been "seared with a hot iron." We are now faced with a whole new generation that has grown up with divorce and sexual amorality in their parents' lives and are simply unable to comprehend anything beyond, despite a longing for something better (like all of the 30-something single women who now find themselves unhappy despite achieving the feminist dream.)

[...] but for all of the other sexually transmitted diseases which infect beautiful heterosexual children across the country there is insufficient evidence that condoms work at all.

Such casual dropping-in of bigotry. Are "non-heterosexual" children -- the single largest cohort for depression and suicide in this country, and who also do get STDs -- to be so casually written off? I guess they're not "beautiful" enough, are they, Doctor?

Are you sure it wasn't Marin County - Highest cluster of breast cancer and lowest birth rate??

"Many of the "sexual freedom" crowd were outraged that parents and educators were calling for abstinence training instead of encouraging the kids to continue finding more natural outlets for their interests.

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.