They obviously aren't educating their own children on the subject. It's being left up to movies, tv, and music in most cases. My aunt told me she's not going to talk to her children about sex til they're 16, my cousin is 14 and has had more partners then i have at 21.... Great plan, leave it up to the parents that truly think that their angelic kids don't know anything besides the mechanics of sex.
According to infoplease.com abortions in general have decreased significantly BUT the ages at which the average girl getting an abortion is much lower... in one state it jumps from the average age of 28 in 1988 to age 14 in 1996. Other states jumped from 25 & 26 to 16. Some parents of must be of a new opinion "we don't have to tell our girl about protection, we'll just get her an abortion".
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0005099.html
2007-07-09 08:55:11 · 6 answers · asked by TJ815 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
NOTE: I'm not saying that all kids and parents are this bad but a couple hundred thousand abortions per year of girls under 18 means theres something wrong with lack of information getting to children with parents that must have clouds over their eyes.
2007-07-09 08:55:23 · update #1
HAHA... yeah... I know what you mean... I'm now finishing up my Bachelor's degree... I remember my "sex" talk with my father...
We were watching Jay Leno and
He was like... "Do you know"
and I'm like... "yeah"
He nods in relief
And that was it...
2007-07-09 09:00:48 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Look at the changes in the laws in that state from 1988 to 1996, and you might get a different explanation for why the change.
But to answer your question, yes many parents prefer to just not deal with the subject and hope for the best.
Some want less information presented in schools, on the (what I consider ludicrous) premise that if kids aren't told about sex they won't have it.
Some what more information presented in schools, thus further relieving them of the burden of talking to their own kids.
Personally, I think parents need to be more involved at a much earlier age in what happens to their kids.
Awareness gives you options. Knowledge gives you the ability to make informed choices. Blind ignorance (ignoring reality = ignorance) never solved anything.
2007-07-09 16:02:34 · answer #2 · answered by coragryph 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You know I have raised two children, boy and girl, myself and I raised them without sheltering them..they watched all the movies and played all the games..both turned out well adjusted and not sexually promiscuous...why?..because I was there with them...we watched tv together, movies, we did sports and traveled..I was always there, and I worked full time, to answer and explain...both are incredibly good looking but were too busy with life to worry about sex..I taught them from a very young age what it was and that there are much more amazing things to do in life and that any fool can figure it out by themselves..just look at the ones breeding today...and I never forgot my roots...I never forgot what I was able to share with them..I remembered growing up...like why tell your child not to masturbate when we all did it...I remembered the firsst sex and had no problem telling them my age...I was not ashamed that I waited until late to have my first..anyway, just in case, at 12, I started giving them a box of condoms in their Christmas stocking...not to give them permission but I recognized they are sexual beings and I wanted them to be prepared..and, they were always unused past dated..well the odd one missing because every guy wants to at least try it on...so I guess what I am saying, it is great the school teaches what they can but it can never replace the active parent who is there for the child and society is so lacking in that parents no longer have time for their kids...it is the number one issue and the rate of underage is climbing because kids are seeking the affection they cannot find at home and when Billy loves you it is worth the risk when mom and Dad will not be home until midnight....funny, I had a rule...the children's room was their own..they could have the boyfriend or girlfriend over for a anything in their room with one condition..Billy or Sara, whichever it happens to be...had to have their mother to call and say it was ok..not Dad..Mom..never happened.
2007-07-09 16:13:32 · answer #3 · answered by bruce b 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Parents have to start talking sex, and talking HONESTLY about sex, which includes stuff they don't like (i.e. no saying condoms are useless like some school programs)...as SOON as the kid starts asking where babies come from.
Otherwise they turn 11-15, already experimenting and full of the "facts" from their friends ("Stand up really fast after sex and you won't get pregnant.") and because you've never discussed it it's this HUGE wall.
Hell, a woman tells in a recent issue of Cosmopolitan that her bf (in his 20s) thought women were BORN to be "natural", "trimmed" and "bare" when they hit puberty.
Good God.
2007-07-09 16:10:51 · answer #4 · answered by Atavacron 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Some parents have a hard time talking to each other about sex, and they're having it. And you except them to talk to their kids about it. As soon as my daughter gets her first period, she also gets birth control and "the talk." When she's 15 or 16 she'll get a vibrator and a masturbation instruction video, as well as some books/vids on VD, pregnancy and anything else sexually related.
2007-07-09 16:01:29 · answer #5 · answered by crknapp79 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Parents should tell the kids no to sex until marriage.
2007-07-09 16:03:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋