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Originally Posted by SnakeBabe
My thoughts are all over the place on this.
I think it’s sad that parents are not educating their kids on sex. They are missing a wonderful opportunity to bond with their children. They are missing a chance to instill the values they hold and on and on.
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I agree completely with you on this. If I ever have kids (which to be honest would be surprising) I know I'd teach them everything about sex, when they hit puberty, so I know that they will be safe and secure. To be fair, I don't think a teenager having sex is wrong if they are both well-informed.
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Then I think its better that schools do it to get legit information to the children. Parents these days can be so misinformed. All you have to do is watch an episode of “Cops” or any reality show and see grown ups today that don’t have an ounce of common sense but still parent one child after another.
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Well, I sort of disagree with you here. At this point in time, schools are required to have a sex education class, but forgive me if I am wrong, most if not all are required to teach abstinence and even downright lies in order to instill fear, a measure of control.
The parents may not always be perfect, but it is their kids, not anyone else's. Unless they deliberately harm them, it's none of our business.
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Originally Posted by bethanysmith
Again, just my view point... but if I were teaching my kids abstinence, I would make sure they knew why. And they would be well-versed about the whole subject.
I'd have a good reason for abstinence, and it would be based on the facts surrounding the entire subject, not based on ignorance. I would want my child to know so much that they might see the value in choosing that. So I guess I wouldn't care if they got detailed sex-ed at school, because I'd have already taught them that at home.
And if all parents got to review sex-ed material at time of registration, there would be no outraged parents showing up picketing at the sex-ed classes.
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Abstinence to be fair makes no more sense when you're 30, as it does when you're 14, SO LONG as you are well informed. If so, your risks will not increase or decrease the older you get, so why wait? It's a basic human function that gives tremendous mutual pleasure and intimacy between you and your partner. Why would we consider this bad?
Yes, it's risky, if you don't take the necessary precautions, but beyond that it's no worse than, for say, driving a car.
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Originally Posted by Dan And Jennifer
My response to this issue is that if we want our religious and moral preferences instilled in our children's education, then we should send them to a religious based school.
Public school should be independent of any and all religious preferences and should teach the facts about sexuality so that our children can make intelligent decisions about their sexuality based on fact not prejudice.
This is where we as parents have to step up and teach our children the moral standards that we want them to uphold.
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Yeah, complications and burdens are the nature of public schooling, which is why I'd only ever home school my kid.