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Just ranting...
Over the past two weeks, I've had a lot of time to just lay around and think. And there's something that's been bothering me lately. S.ex. Yeah, that's right. I think there's a problem with the way that people aproach the subject. The other day, I was watching tv with my mother, and a Gardisil commercial came on. She started complaining about how instead of teaching abstinence, they give girls vacines so they don't get cancer if they do hav s.ex. I don't understand this mentality. Yes, abstinence should always be taught. But, I also think that girls and boys should be provided with the knowledge to keep themselves safe if they do decide to have s.ex. There's a reason why girls are becoming mothers younger and younger. Sure, sometimes they rebel against their parents. But sometimes, they aren't provided with the knowledge to be kept safe when they do have s.ex. I'm not saying that abstinence shouldn't be taught, but what I am saying is that we should be talking about it. We should be telling kids how to protect themsleves from pregnancy and disease. I know that they talk about it in schools, but obviously that that isn't enough.
S.ex shouldn't be so taboo. And it really bothers me that it is.
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Ah, but Addie - haven't you been listening to the Bush administration? According to them, if you just tell teenagers "Don't ever have sex before you're married" over and over again, this will magically cause them to stop having sex, and there won't be any teen pregnancies or STDs or anything of the sort. If the White House says it, then surely it must be true...
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1/31/2008, 1:22 pm
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Re: Just ranting...
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
I say we BURN IT DOWN!!!!!!!!!
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2/2/2008, 12:31 am
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Re: Just ranting...
Allow me to be unpopular for a moment and offer my crazy, rightest opinion. 
First, to be blunt, I firmly believe that teenage fornication is unhealthy for the individuals and society in general. In young females especially, the detrimental play on her emotions will not be curbed by protection (I think this is caused by a hormone release of oxytocin?).
Why should this be the responsibility of the school at all? If a family has no qualms with their teenagers becoming s.exually active, I don't have much to say, but for the vast majority of faith groups (Christians, Jews, Mormons, Muslims) fornication is immoral and giving teenagers a tacit approbation by contraceptive/protection education becomes more than an issue ensuring "safety". For people of the Catholic faith, not only is fornication immoral but, I believe, the use of birth control in any circumstance as well. Thus, a school taking on the role of s.exual education in this regard is possibly overstepping moral boundaries for many families.
Finally, the vast allotment of funds used to educate teenagers on avoiding pregnancy and disease is already spent on contraceptive training, not abstinence. My little sister's sixth grade friend (a victim of the local public middle school) told us about the day's home ec. lesson -putting a c.ondom on a banana. "Absti-what?" She said. "Oh, no they didn't talk about waiting till we're older..." For those in favor of protection education, I don't see a huge cause for alarm... but that's just me in our very left-wing city.
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...and I've looked over my post a few times, but if I seem to have missed a filtered word with a dot let me know! 
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Why should this be the responsibility of the school at all?
I don't think that it should be the resposiblity of the schools. Not at all. That should be left up to the family. I went to a Christian school where s.ex education was not taught. Instead, they separated the girls and the boys. The only interaction they would get with each other was at recess and only under the close watch of the teachers. Class time interaction? Nope. None.
My best friend at the time, Emilee, was raised Penecostal. [Please do not take what I am about to say the wrong way. It is not meant to 'bash' anyone's faith. This is just the facts of a specific situation.] And around here, Penecostals are very very strict. Especially in a certain church. Emilee just so happened to attend this church with her parents. At this particular church, teenagers were told that s.ex of any kind is wrong. Unless of course you're married... and then s.ex is only for making babies. And of course, as you can imagine, Emilee's parents taught her the same thing. When Emilee and I were 15, she met a boy. A really really cute boy. He was a new kid at our extremely small school. Long story short: Emilee got pregnant and never heard from this guy again. Emilee's parents sent her away to a group home to have her baby and I haven't seen her since.
I see pregnant girls all the time where I work. [When I say all the time, I mean 2 to 3 times a week] Sometimes as young as 12 or 13. I'm not saying that moral boundaries should be ovestepped. It just concerns me that babies are having babies. A parent's role is to protect their children and teach them what they believe is the "right" way to live. I just think that parent should take their role a little more seriously. [I'm not saying that all parents are like this. Just that most of them in my area are.] And talking to their children about s.ex doesn't mean that they would be condoning it. Should they want to teach abstinence, far be it from me to say they shouldn't.
I just find it unfortunate that this subject is [sometimes] taboo in families.
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