The "sex is for grown-ups" meme is a dangerous one, because the minute kids start to individuate and separate from their parents as early teens, they think they are grown up. I tell my kids "sex is for married people." Because my kids know my husband and I expect them to get through college before they marry, the translation is clear - no sex until adulthood. I have one in college, one in high school and one in middle school, and so far, this approach has worked.
Have you heard about the holiday gift some American girls could be getting? Emergency contraception!
During Thanksgiving week the American Academy of Pediatrics announced their recommendation that "morning- after" prescriptions be issued to adolescent girls in advance of need, as a matter of routine.
"There's no good reason" to disagree with the recommendation, the San Francisco Chronicle asserts. But there are actually plenty of them.
Besides being deeply insulting to the dignity of adolescents, this approach exposes the reality that when we talk about sex, we all too often put good health and sense aside. "Women's health" routinely assumes promiscuity, whatever the age, despite...
Expecting your children to go through all their teens and even college and wait til marriage to
be sexually active is just unrealistic in most Western cultures.
Why not give teens all the information there is, and how to prevent pregnancy with contraceptions?
Most imporantly is to teach them safe sex informatino to protect them?
You can preach to the choir all day and all night, but once they leave your house, the biology of sex is too powerful to expect them to not use it.
That's what "Tired Mom" is trying to do, despite being held up for ridicule by those who THINK they're so much smarter than she is.
I say YOU GO GIRLFRIEND. And I might add, my husband and I are raising our daughter that way as well.
Perhaps the girl wouldn't be so willing to "put-out" if the federal government wouldn't be there to "take care of her problem". In the old days the girl and boy would be forced to marry (usually via a shotgun), or the girl would be forced to give up the child for adoption; or the girl would keep the child and live with her parents. But no man would ever consider marrying a ready made family. For the girl, having sex was not something entered into lightly.