A recent NPR/Harvard School of Government/Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that 46 percent of Americans want contraception with heavy emphasis on abstinence taught in sexual education programs. The poll also found that 28 percent of people thought that it is inappropriate for "teens can obtain birth control pills from family planning clinics and doctors without permission from a parent". In addition, the poll found that parents think their daughters are better prepared to examine sex and sexuality than their sons:
Sixty percent of parents said their daughter was very prepared; only 36 percent said the same of their son. Interestingly, fathers (60 percent) were as likely as mothers (59 percent) to say their daughter was very prepared. However, fathers (23 percent) were much less likely than mothers (45 percent) to say their son was very prepared.
I talk to my children about sex all the time. Let's just say that when my children are teens- they'll know where the contraceptive drawer in the house is. Of course I am constantly telling them the dangers of permiscuous sex and I really hope that with as open and as honest as my husband and I are about sex with our kids, they'll be able to make mature decisions. If they do decide to have sex as teens- at least they'll be prepared.
I think that if kids are giving the right facts- about stds and sex- in a way they can understand, they'll make better decisions.
I'm sure that theres some better way to get this across to kids- but even putting a buncha glitter in your hand and shaking the persons hand to the right of you, and so on- would show these kids how easily a sexually transmitted disease could pass rapidly through a place. They need to make sex education more appealing to these kids.
N yeah- okay LEAN towards abstinace
*que the chuckles* but how many of these kids are really going to abstain?
Give them the right info- n they'll make better desicions.
N not letting kids have access to contraceptives? Whoa- thats nuts- really shows how far we've come as a society. WHy don't we just start chopping of our kids heads when they are pre-pubescent? Ya know? It's like handing them a death certificate.
Okay- enough drama.
We need to come up with a fun way to teach kids the benifits of abstance, without acting like sex is some UNHEALTHY vile act, that only pervs do as passtimes. N give them a good understanding of how contraception works and access to contraception, so that the kids that do decide sex is~ FOR THEM~ don't have to die for it.
A recent NPR/Harvard School of Government/Kaiser Family Foundation poll found that 46 percent of Americans want contraception with heavy emphasis on abstinence taught in sexual education programs. The poll also found that 28 percent of people thought that it is inappropriate for "teens can obtain birth control pills from family planning clinics and doctors without permission from a parent". In addition, the poll found that parents think their daughters are better prepared to examine sex and sexuality than their sons:
Sixty percent of parents said their daughter was very prepared; only 36 percent said the same of their son. Interestingly, fathers (60 percent) were as likely as mothers (59 percent) to say their daughter was very prepared. However, fathers (23 percent) were much less likely than mothers (45 percent) to say their son was very prepared.
Wren
SUICIDEGIRL
Minnesota, USA
FEB 06, 2004 02:46 AM