Art Vandelay wrote:I find it amusing that if the topic is sex, it should be the responsibility of the parents to teach right from wrong and responsible practices rather than the government. But when the topic is drugs it's up to the government. We need laws, we need DARE programs, we can't leave it up to parents. I would wager that more lives have been adversly affected by sex than by drugs.
Anyway, to try to stay on topic, abstinence-only education has been a colossal failure. If someone really wants their children to learn abstinence only they should take them out of school during sex ed. The rest of the kids should get a true education.
schools should be encouraged to teach a broad spectrum. why eliminate discussions on sex, while nutrition, biology, and psychology are all tres bien?
the lazy parents are the ones who are too complacent to learn what their children are learning. if parents want to impose some structure to sex that encourages more or less of it, do that at home. a school's responsibility includes teaching basic elements of health. sex is part of that.
the reason the government needs to intervene dramatically is because the american parent has already failed miserably.
edit: chad & omaha, i want to address what apparently has felt to you and some others (not just in this thread, but in at least several others of its ilk) like a religious bombardment: while it is true that some feel that judeo-christianity is complete fabrication, it is just as true that any belief system is just as fabricated. belief (and faith) are what we humans do to conceptualize a world that cannot be conceptualized.
no one (on this board or anywhere else) should feel the need to attack or defend a belief in a higher power, unless the belief is unmistakeably contingent upon the suffering of fellow humans. in that case, you know, have at it. that's what i say, anyway.