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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] I agree with the poster who points out the hypocrisy and ultimate selfishness of "not under my roof" ("I don't care horrors my children experience so long as I'm not exposed to any potentially embarrassing behavior on their part.") [/quote]

Why is refusing to allow your children to have sex in your house hypocrisy?  If you are opposed to your children screwing around and they know your beliefs, how it is it hypocritical not  to allow them to have sex at home?   You are sending a dual message if you say "don't do this" but if you do "do this at home."[/quote]

I am sorry I should have clarified, and perhaps hypocrisy is too strong a word. If you believe that having sex in your teens (or outside of marriage) is wrong under all circumstances, then of course you are not being hypocritical when you don't let your children have it in your house. But if you yourself have enjoyed sex under a variety of circumstances (not just in the context of a marriage) and you don't believe that all extramarital or all teenage sex is bad by definition, then forbidding your children from doing it under your roof does send a mixed message.

Also, I think the point the article is making is teenage sex does not equal "screwing around". [b]It can be a beautiful thing between two young people who are in love, and we should celebrate tha[/b]t, instead of filling their heads with guilt and shame and our own hangups.[/quote]

I see your point. But is teenage sex ever really a beautiful thing? I don't remember it that way at all and I married my high school sweetheart so obviously we were in love. Also, I am the pp whose parents let us have sleepovers. No pregnancy, no stds, no "soiled reputation." And we are still married so maybe my mom did something right.[/quote]

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