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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Which would you rather your child have-- a condom or a baby? Or a condom or an STI?[/quote]

I am teaching my kids that there are other impacts of sex outside of getting pregnant or a STD that a condom or any kind of birth control can't stop.  Whether we like to admit it or not, sex is an emotional tie.  [b]I would not want the school to give my kids condoms. [/b] [/quote]

Do you think that it would induce your kids to disregard your teaching?[/quote]

Crickets.[/quote]

Different poster,  it I prefer that schools not normalize teenagecsex by proactively distributing conforms.  Available from the nurse is fin by me, but more than that is going to far by the state into my rights to parent.  [/quote]

Teenagers themselves have normalized sex. The average age Americans lose their virginity is 17.1yrs old. Only 12% of the female population and 14% of the male population are still virgins at age 20. For a teenager to still be a virgin is what is abnormal. And guess ehat kids are doing long before penetration? Oral, hand jobs, and everything else in between.

Im sorry, but you are an absolute idiot and fool if you dont think that teenagers should have easy access to birth control and protection from STDs. Thats like puttung your teen behind the wheel of a car and hiding the seatbelts. Absolute stupidity.[/quote]

This is the kind of messaging that I think is harmful. Over[b] half of high schoolers graduate as virgins. [/b]The idea that everyone is doing it and if you aren't your abnormal or to a teen (abnormal = pathetic loser) is just wrong. There is nothing abnormal about not being sexually active in high school, everyone isn't doing it, and putting pressure on kids that either you have sex or you aren't normal is just wrong. I think this is the other end of the swing from abstinence education. The numbers don't support the you are only normal if you have sex early. Lots of kids either due to personal values, not being ready, lack of opportunity or any number of reasons are not sexually active and we should be emphasizing how normal that is too and no, not everyone needs a condominium in their pocket at all times.[/quote]

My info is from the CDC. Where are you getting your info?

Nobody is saying virgins are losers. What many of us are saying is that we choose to live in a concious state of reality. I teach the 8th grade and when I was in 8th grade, NOBODY and I mean NOBODY was having oral sex. Now kids talk about it like it's normal. Just last week, a girl,in  a "race you to the castle tank top (clearly purchased at disney by her parents probably) was giggling about how a boy had motorboated her.  Times have changed.[/quote]

Nah, you were just around kids who either weren't doing it or weren't talking about it. The mores are more relaxed now, but the behind-the-bleachers banging has been going on for as long as people have been around. Remember that until very, very recently in human history, 8th grade girls were a.) wives and b.) mothers.[/quote]

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