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MamaDivine
Yes and No. This is a touchy situation. If you offer it to them THEN they are more encouraged to have sex because protection is free and made readily available. (Not ALL teens are going to disobey their parents wishes and totally throw out the window
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Yes and No. This is a touchy situation. If you offer it to them THEN they are more encouraged to have sex because protection is free and made readily available. (Not ALL teens are going to disobey their parents wishes and totally throw out the window everything that has been taught to them. So lets give SOME of the teens out there some credit. I know I was scared to death of getting pregnant when I was a teen, and if I didn't have protection, there was nothing goin' to happen with me.
I also would have to say yes, because then you have the other half of teens who YES will have sex regardless of what we say or do to protect them from these dangers.
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Your making several huge extremely problematic assumptions in this post.
"Not ALL teens are going to disobey their parents wishes"
Your assuming having sex = disobeying parents wish. This is not a fair assumption to make in the slightest many, parents in this thread have shown a comprehensive approach to sex ed where "sex" is not equal to "disobeying" .
"totally throw out the window everything that has been taught to them."
This is again even worse having sex is not throwing "everything" out the window, have safe sex may in fact be putting exactly what the parents thought them into practice.
So lets give SOME of the teens out there some credit
Your again making a moralistic judgement that we aren't giving teens credit if we put condoms in schools, that again is "sex logic" it makes no sense. We are giving teens credit by assuming they will have safe sex, when giving the necessary tools. We wouldn't say giving adults free condoms is somehow not giving some of them credit we say we are giving those that wish to have them tools. The logic doesn't change when it comes to teens.
and no have condoms doesn't encourage teens to have sex, any more then seat-belts encourage reckless driving. Even if it did it again your personal moralistic judgment that this is a problem. An increase in teen safer sex with a reduction in teen pregnancy and STD is far better, then less sex but more STDs and pregnancy. Stopping teen sex in it of itself is not the goal of sex education. I refuse to even call any approach that looks at stopping teen sex as a goal in it of itself sex eduction, it isn't its "virginity protection". The assumption underlining the "they will have more sex" argument is that it better to protect the virginity of the minority then the health of the majority.