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Is it time to write to our Congressmen and tell them to forget the religion, stop wasting our money, and start teaching reality to our kids?
2007-11-06 20:23:28 · 14 answers · asked by link955 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Jack: My "problem" is "abstinence only" programs don't work. The religionists need to understand people are going to have sex regardless of how much Jesus you throw at them. Kids need to learn factual, science-based, accurate sex education, and learn how not to get pregnant and remain disease-free if they do have sex. They need to stop being lied to about condoms.
Also, preventing pregnancy will make abortions unnecessary. Certainly, that should appeal to religious folks.
2007-11-06 20:32:30 · update #1
Yeah, how much money do they need to say "Don't have sex" to the kids?
It's really kind of a "duh" idea...
But you do need money to actually educate kids... which inevitably ends up being more along the "safe sex" lines... condoms, school nurses, classes, after-school social groups, counseling, reading materials etc...
But just saying "Don't do it" shouldn't warrant any special programs and funding...
2007-11-06 20:27:45 · answer #1 · answered by rabble rouser 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
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2016-05-28 05:59:29 · answer #2 · answered by amada 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Abstinence should not be a rationalization for not giving kids the information they need to make choices. Abstinence should be a decision that the kids make after being given all the information.
"Abstinence only" sex education is basically
"institutionalized ignorance"--and ignorance shouldn't cost anything, since it occurs naturally in the absence of information.
2007-11-07 00:03:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Abstinence is unrealistic. Just like most of what a lot of Christians believe. Kids always have and always will have sex. As far as not wanting your kids to be subjected to sex at an early age. I would hope you do not let them watch television. Even network television is full of sexually based programming. As well as keeping them away from other peoples kids. Who may have learned about sexual things earlier than you would have your kids learn.
2007-11-06 20:52:24 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You make the faulty assumption that only believers believe that Children shouldn't be subjected to sex at an early age. No, it's not time for that, or that the board of education shouldn't have what you do with your bits and pieces in the curriculum. Where's the sense in that? If you look at the situation objectively, you'll come to the same conclusion. You're merely worried about teenage pregnancy and how it effects the individual, so I can't really argue the point with you. You're too short-sighted to understand the argument.
Here are the major points though, without explanation.
+Birth control works. It stops people from getting pregnant and allows people the vice of having sex for pleasure without consequences. Sex for pleasure is weakness and slavery.
+More birth control leads to less children, which negatively impacts our economy in a huge way. Think social security, labor market, and immigration.
+Birth control and sexual education makes sex desensitize people to adultery and excess sexual activity.
+Sex education is often an unwanted interference on the lives of our children imposed by a Government who should not be so involved in our goings-on.
2007-11-06 20:39:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I too have a problem with abstinence only education... Abstinence should be taught as an option in conjuncture with all other options for birth and disease control giving statistical data on failure rate with each option...
Abstinence only is like giving a child a loaded gun and telling them "Just don't pull the trigger."
2007-11-06 20:38:03 · answer #6 · answered by Diane (PFLAG) 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I disagree with teaching abstinence in school in the first place.
Abstinence is a choice that is to be made on an individual basis.
2007-11-06 20:29:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
I agree, I also think Parents need to start talking to their kids about Sex instead of letting the schools do it. It should be a combination of both.
2007-11-06 20:26:53 · answer #8 · answered by Pathofreason.com 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm a Christian, and am opposed to abstinence-only programs. The research shows that they not only don't work, but are based on shoddy research, outright lies, and wishful thinking.
2007-11-06 20:31:35 · answer #9 · answered by solarius 7 · 5⤊ 1⤋
Abstinence should be taught in conjunction with safe sex.
2007-11-06 20:26:40 · answer #10 · answered by Think! 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋