See, you have nothing to worry about. Kids in this area are too busy with their crushing homework schedules to have sex. https://time.com/3966364/teen-sex/

I suspect most UMC kids are more likely to commit suicide than to get pregnant from premarital sex.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The responses here are indicative of why it’s so difficult to raise children in this area. We are morally outraged by meat eaters but not 15 year olds having sex. We romanticize promiscuity and demonize religion. Children must be told about their sexual desires as young as possible but please don’t tell them Santa’s not real.

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Thank you. I thought I was the only one who thought that way

Very few people are outraged by meat eaters. You're completely overreacting. I had my teenage sex in Iowa. Most kids there had sex in HS. These days, kids barely have any sex and it's a little concerning. They don't screw, drink, or work and aren't really adults until they are 30.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The responses here are indicative of why it’s so difficult to raise children in this area. We are morally outraged by meat eaters but not 15 year olds having sex. We romanticize promiscuity and demonize religion. Children must be told about their sexual desires as young as possible but please don’t tell them Santa’s not real.

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Thank you. I thought I was the only one who thought that way

Let me just say that yours are the kids that go off to college and literally sleep with every moving thing.

Let me just say if you reread this thread the overwhelming majority felt an early experience lead to healthier sex lives later in life. And that education and birth control and open communication did as well.

You missed the OP question which was not judgmental.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The responses here are indicative of why it’s so difficult to raise children in this area. We are morally outraged by meat eaters but not 15 year olds having sex. We romanticize promiscuity and demonize religion. Children must be told about their sexual desires as young as possible but please don’t tell them Santa’s not real.

It's only difficult for you because you're so judgmental of others.

Yes I’m judging you. Just like you judge those who disagree with you and attack them for having different standards for their own children that don’t align with your laissez faire attitude.

I do judge parents who don’t educate their children on life basics because ignorance causes harm. But not beyond that. I DGAF if your kids screw anyone or not.

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Anonymous wrote:The responses here are indicative of why it’s so difficult to raise children in this area. We are morally outraged by meat eaters but not 15 year olds having sex. We romanticize promiscuity and demonize religion. Children must be told about their sexual desires as young as possible but please don’t tell them Santa’s not real.

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Thank you. I thought I was the only one who thought that way

Let me just say that yours are the kids that go off to college and literally sleep with every moving thing.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The responses here are indicative of why it’s so difficult to raise children in this area. We are morally outraged by meat eaters but not 15 year olds having sex. We romanticize promiscuity and demonize religion. Children must be told about their sexual desires as young as possible but please don’t tell them Santa’s not real.

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Thank you. I thought I was the only one who thought that way

This is dumb. I was an exchange student in 1986 and realized how prudish Americans were. Teach your kids their value and safe sex and stop trying to put a bonnet on them. That's why Europeans have far fewer abortions. They teach their kids instead of making some great moral issue. Sex at 17. I survived. I got married at 28, 2 normal kids.

I was 17, I'm 50 now. Jesus, seriously? Who cares.

Anonymous wrote:The responses here are indicative of why it’s so difficult to raise children in this area. We are morally outraged by meat eaters but not 15 year olds having sex. We romanticize promiscuity and demonize religion. Children must be told about their sexual desires as young as possible but please don’t tell them Santa’s not real.

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Thank you. I thought I was the only one who thought that way

I regret it, mostly because I believed sex = power, but I was miserable.

I’m not the PP but maybe they are thinking of the Institute for Family Studies (Wolfinger) one? That one is from a few years back.

I do wish that I had more sexual experience in my younger years. Truthfully I wish I had more relationship experience, period, as a teen and young woman. I wasn’t popular with guys at all. I was too tall, sturdy and nerdy. The frizzy hair didn’t help either.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The responses here are indicative of why it’s so difficult to raise children in this area. We are morally outraged by meat eaters but not 15 year olds having sex. We romanticize promiscuity and demonize religion. Children must be told about their sexual desires as young as possible but please don’t tell them Santa’s not real.

It's only difficult for you because you're so judgmental of others.

Yes I’m judging you. Just like you judge those who disagree with you and attack them for having different standards for their own children that don’t align with your laissez faire attitude.

No one is judging anyone in this thread except you. Share a story or GTFO instead of pontificating. You’re ruining an interesting thread.

And, for the PP who thinks multiple premarital partners leads to divorce, still waiting for that peer-reviewed research.

Anonymous wrote:I was 16. My BF was a good guy. No regrets.

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And we dated for three years (15-18).

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The responses here are indicative of why it’s so difficult to raise children in this area. We are morally outraged by meat eaters but not 15 year olds having sex. We romanticize promiscuity and demonize religion. Children must be told about their sexual desires as young as possible but please don’t tell them Santa’s not real.

It's only difficult for you because you're so judgmental of others.

Yes I’m judging you. Just like you judge those who disagree with you and attack them for having different standards for their own children that don’t align with your laissez faire attitude.

I would wager that most of us are talking about sex we had in the 80s and most likely not in the area. I would never think that this is specific to DC or to this era.

I didn't have sex in high school but wish I had. I couldn't get anyone to do it with me,

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The responses here are indicative of why it’s so difficult to raise children in this area. We are morally outraged by meat eaters but not 15 year olds having sex. We romanticize promiscuity and demonize religion. Children must be told about their sexual desires as young as possible but please don’t tell them Santa’s not real.

It's only difficult for you because you're so judgmental of others.

Yes I’m judging you. Just like you judge those who disagree with you and attack them for having different standards for their own children that don’t align with your laissez faire attitude.