Hold on to your logic for this one. If you don’t, you may loose your ability for logical thinking and fall into the mental drone zone.
Tyra Banks had a teen sex survey on her show. The results actually shocked her - where has she been? I really like Tyra, but she didn’t know how sexualized our society is? She contributed to it for goodness sakes! But I digress.
Here are some of the findings of the survey according to MSNBC:
On average, girls are losing their virginity at 15 years of age.
14 percent of teens who are having sex say they’re doing it at school.
52 percent of survey respondents say they do not use protection when having sex.
One in three says she fears having a sexually transmitted disease.
24 percent of teens with STDs say they still have unprotected sex.
One in five girls says she wants to be a teen mom.
About 50 percent acknowledge that they’ve hit someone.
One out of three teens has tried drugs.
Now wait for it. You know what is coming. The response from the "Dr." who wants comprehensive sex education isn’t too shocking:
Dr. Elizabeth Schroeder, executive director of Answer, a teen sex education program based at Rutgers University…….
“This so clearly points to the need for comprehensive sexual education for kids,” Schroeder said. “An adolescent … is supposed to be making poor decisions. Developmentally this is the way they’re supposed to be behaving. They need help ….
“Parents need help talking with their kids about sexuality, and schools need to be talking to kids about sexuality.”
Yawn. This Dr. didn’t listen to a darn thing these kids said. Here are some quotes from the kids:
“A lot of the guys, if I didn’t have unprotected sex with them, they would get mad at me and I still wanted that closeness with them,” one girl says during the show. “I was afraid if I didn’t do what they wanted, they wouldn’t be my friend.”
“I had helped teach a sex-ed class to a class of freshmen my sophomore year,” she explains. “We taught how … there’s a week [in] the month you are more likely to get pregnant than any other time of the month. I had calculated that out and I decided on two days I was most likely to get pregnant.”
A 16-year-old girl interviewed…..she has had nine sex partners and has contracted sexually transmitted diseases, including genital herpes….“When they told me I was crying really bad … because it was something I have to live with for the rest of my life,”
Earth to Dr. Schroeder - not only do these girls know about safe sex and STD’s, one was TEACHING IT! Hello, does anyone have any brains? 20% of the girls WANT to get pregnant and know when the time is right to obtain that goal. These girls don’t need more sex ed! They have had enough. What they need is morality classes, self esteem classes and self discipline classes. I’m beginning to think the "need more comprehensive sex ed" people won’t be happy until we are showing soft porn in the classrooms.
And now from the National Ledger:
"The question is, when are parents going to step it up to try to stop the hyper-sexualization of their children? What will it take?"
What will it take? Let’s see. Stop giving our children contraception without our knowledge. Stop giving our children abortions without our knowledge. Stop telling our children we are wrong when we don’t want them on contraception. Stop telling our children we are wrong when we don’t want them to have an abortion. Stop telling our children "they are going to do it anyway so here’s a condom"!
You see, the liberals have been telling our children for YEARS not to listen to their parents. Now they want to blame us? Give me a break.
For over 100 years they have been saying easier access to contraception, easier access to abortion and easier access to sex education will "cure" all the promiscuity and the consequences that go with it. It hasn’t. It’s made it worse. Every time we give in to all these demands STD’s, abortion and promiscuity go up. Let’s take that 100 years of knowledge and learn from it!
Good Grief!
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to be quite honest, I don’t think too many parents really give a damn.(sorry, sorry, sorry)
And since many adults lives are just as messed up why would they expect anything different from or for their children?
Patricia -
Parents are just worn out from having to fight popular culture and the school systems. Any parent who fights the system is considered a bad parent, and any parent who lets the systme raise their children is a bad parent. Not to mention that if any parents disagrees with what specific people think should be taught to our kids they are bad parents.
It’s not that parents don’t care - parents are just tired of fighting and then being told how bad they are at parenting for questioning “the system”.
It aint easy being a parent who wants to teach morality when the entire world seems to be against you.
Valerie Jane, I’m sorry but I do respectfully disagree. Many parents just don’t even try. I’ve met parents and kids from my daughter’s school when we are out shopping. I try to tell the mom to hold the line. They give in each and every time over immodest clothing. The kid wins if they are persistent enough.
Another area is dating. Parents are simply unbelievable on this one. Kids in Gr 5, 6, 7 and 8 should NOT be dating. But, parents seem to think it’s cute and harmless.
I honestly think that many parents just want to be their child’s friend. I’m working on being a mean mom!
Actually,
I think you’re both right. There are parents out there, like us, that feeling like we’re drowning! My daughter is large, and has had to buy bigger sizes since she was small. You wouldn’t believe the “fancy” dresses that are out there in size 8! Remember the post Jill did on halloween costumes? They were worse this year!
On the other hand, a lot, and I agree Patricia, it’s A LOT, of parents simply don’t care. But think about it. They are the first generation that grew up being dressed by their parents this way. I mean the bikini has been around for 40 some years. That means that 40 year old moms grew up with this mentality and have passed it on to their kids.
lol Patricia, you may be trying to be a mean mom, but my daughter will tell you that I’ve succeeded!
I do know some Mom’s that are trying to be their kids friends, but lets be honest - That is what they are being told to do. When my parents were raising me it was Dr. Spock telling everyone how to raise their children. Now we have multiple “Dr. Spocks” telling us how to raise them. And they are saying to be friends with your children, don’t hurt their self esteem and treat them like adults. These poor parents have lost control of their children so early on, there is no way to get control once puberty hits.
The clothing is getting bad. They have slutty clothes in 2T sizes. It’s disgusting. Yet once again we are told that children need to express themselves so let them be. ug…..
The spoiling of children in masses doesn’t come from lazy parenting. It comes from masses of parents being told to raise their kids this way. It’s like a disease and it is the mean parents that are the vaccine!
And a big WooHoo! to Patricia for being a mean Mom! Congrats! It isn’t easy going against what society tells you to do.
MK; see my mother would NEVER let me wear a bikini. Remember my mom was an ITALIAN mom and she was very strict. She didn’t exactly TELL me I couldn’t wear it but she implied that she would be very very disappointed if I did. It was the same with make-up and halter-tops etc.
And I understand too how hard it can be for some young women to find clothing. My oldest girl is a little on the heavier side. It is very hard to find clothing that doesn’t fit like skin on an onion.
I’m currently reading A return to modesty” by Wendy Shalit. It is excellent. Little does she know that she has figured out some of the Theology of the Body, all by her little self! ;-D
I couldn’t wear a two piece either, if my navel was showing. My daughter can’t wear one either. And no make up til I was 15. I still don’t wear much.
I played with dolls til I was 14! Why can’t kids be kids???
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