The Dirty side of Progressive Liberalism
I know. I know…..when isn’t it dirty right? Well, sometimes they even do things that amaze me.
Here’s a little snippet of what is actually going on:
The Portland School Committee is poised to take up a proposal that would enable students at King Middle School to obtain birth control prescriptions from the school’s health center.
Under the plan scheduled for consideration Wednesday night, King would become the first middle school in Maine to make a full range of contraception available to students in grades 6 through 8, according to the state Department of Health and Human Services.
Oh yay. Instead of trying to impose some type of moral sense upon the youngsters they are just going to give them birth control. Is this an actual idea of progress? Really? I’d actually like to meet the person who actually thought that this was a good idea so that I could unleash an army of small dwarfish people who could pound them with their tiny fists. Humor and Justice in one single swoop!
But I digress, this is actually pretty appalling when you get right down to it. Middle school kids don’t have any business partaking in sexual acts let alone being given access to birth control by their school officials. The parents are actually outraged by what the school is doing and have begun to protest and good for them. However, considering this school has made it a school board issue and have PASSED IT they can do this, or at least try too, without the parents consent.
Since when was raising a child the states responsibility as opposed to the actual parents? Oh, thats right. When you had people like “It takes a village” Hillary Clinton spouting off nonsense and liberal tripe.
I hope this whole thing gets squashed.
True, middle schoolers shouldn’t be having sex. How do you connect this with access (by specific request) to birth control? Somehow, I don’t think lack of birth control is going to stop anyone from having sex. I guess to you, it’s better that middle schooler have sex without birth control.
BTW, how’s that abstinence-based sex education working out? Oh, it actually increases teenage sex? How funny. Well, not funny, more like sad.
Since you can blame Hillary (you forgot to blame Bill for his BJ of DOOOOM) for pre-marital sex, I guess I can blame Reagan and Bush II for our subprime mortgage crisis and teenage pregnancies. The subprime mortgage crisis is Bush and Reagan’s fault, since we can connect his financial imprudence (huge budget deficits anyone?) to the financial imprudence of those who bought homes they couldn’t afford. And we can blame Bush for teenage pregnancy, because just like Bush, teenagers having sex don’t have any plans for what comes after the big climax (be it sex or the conquest of Iraq).
Another thing. If it is the parents responsibility to raise their children (and I believe it is), why the heck should schools be imposing any sort of moral code. Isn’t that, I dunno, the PARENT’s responsibility? Also, with respect to TV shows and video games, why are there so many complaints from conservatives about violence and sex? Maybe those conservative parents should do their jobs. Just because babies can’t eat steak doesn’t mean we should all eat baby food.
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Were you ever a teenager?
I wasa once – about 20 years ago.
And, in later years, I’ve worked with teenagers, in schools, GED programs, vocational ed programs ect. And I’ve studied a little bit about adolescent psychology (I’m far from an expert, but I know a little bit).
And, based on what I’ve learned (and on my memories of ny own adolescence) I know that teenagers (boys and girls alike) are VERY SEXUAL.
They WILL experiment sexually …the psychologically healthy ones will at any rate – The ones that I’m concerned about ate the ones who DON’T experiment with sex!
So, they need to be educated about their bodies, and about how to protect themselves from Secually Transmitted Infections and fromm unplanned pregancies.
There’s no “morality” about it, this is REALITY.
so, we can have all of this “abstinence only education” BS, and watch STI and unplanned pregnancy rates soar.
Or, we can h ave a bit of common sense and intelligence, and follow the lead of this school in Portland, ME, where they ignored the fundies and the hypocritcal “moralists”, honored the fact that they have sexually active students, and took steps to protect the students.
I APPLAUD the officials of the Porltand School Committee, for having some common sense, intelligence and the moral integrity to help the students and ignore the fundamentalist idiots!
O_o…wow.
I wonder what it must feel like to just be knee deep in epic -FAIL-. Although with the nonsensical tripe you guys comment with it makes me glad that I have a mind.
Or at least a mind that sees a problem and instead of trying to cushion it I seek for resolution. Yes, teenagers are very sexual. Duh, I was one. However, teenagers are also stupid, inexperienced, and unprepared to deal with actual responsibility or consequence. Hell, science says that a teenagers mind doesn’t fully develop until they are almost twenty and that is why there are more driving mishaps between the age of 16-19. Because of the inability to problem solve or think clearly.
SO! it makes more sense to allow teens who cant even properly operate a vehicle to procreate uninhibited? Gee, I always figured that telling your kids to wait until your married or showing them that having a child too early pretty much ruins all aspects of your childhood and forces you to live off the government tit was a pretty good batch of birth control, but hell….what do I know right?
I’m only a mid-twenties married man with no kids and a very successful career. I stayed the course until I was married and so did my wife…was it because we were sexually stagnant? No. It was because we planned and kept it in our minds that there are more important things other than humping like rabbits.
I wont pretend that it wasn’t a difficult road. It was. However, I am better off than most people because I kept my head on straight and decided to think with my brain instead of my hormones. A message of success and purity should be engrained in to children….not this destructive ideal of free love and sexual expression that has been rampant since the sixties.
Let’s look at some pros and cons of BC Vs. Abstinence.
Abstinence:
Pros – No STD transfer, No children, No room for sexual addiction to form, Free.
Cons – No sex (aww..boo-hoo)
Birth Control:
Pros: A somewhat effective means of keeping pregnancy down when used properly.
Cons – Does not prevent the passing of STD’s, Not 100% effective (only abstinence is), more availability of BC coincides with the rise in teen sexual activity, costs money.
Aside from the “no sex” part I guess abstinence wins that one now doesn’t it?
Besides, why are middle school children sexually active? What twisted ideal is being allowed in to the minds of our kids where sex is something that takes hold of their minds between those age groups?
But…hey…I also think that the problem doesn’t lie within the kids but within the parents. Parents these days don’t teach good life lessons to their children or warn them of the dangers of dumb decisions. Having sex before you are financially ready and mature enough to handle it? pretty much retarded. And if your a parent and your teaching your kids that being sexually explorative before they are mature enough to handle the consequences then you are also ignorant and should be considered a “bad parent”.
If I stepped on your toes? Good. You idiots needed it.
Read much? Abstinence only education has been proven ineffective TIME AND TIME AGAIN! What do you suggest? Adding more single teen mothers to the already faltering welfare system? Yes, that’s a much better answer.
Aurvant,
yes, teenagers’ minds aren’t fully developed until they are in their very late teens/early 20’s.
But, that doesn’t make them “stupid”.
After all, the Pentagon trusts teenagers with $ 40 million dollar tanks and $ 1 billion dollar aircraft – so how “stupid” could they be???
The cold hard fact is, ABSTINANCE IS NOT REALISTIC.
For as long as Homo Sapines have been a species, adolescents have been experimenting with sex.
Hell, for most of human history, the catagory of “teenager” didn’t exist – that’s an early 20th century American concept, that actually still doesn’t even exist in much of the world.
Fro most of human history, once you hit puberty, you were considered an adult (ever wonder why the Jews have Bar Mitxvas and Bat Mitzvas for their 13 year old kids? cause that’s when they were historically considered to be adults)
So, since we KNOW that teenagers WILL have sex, we have two choices.
1. Choice 1 – deal with the REALITY of teenaged sexuality, and makre sure that teengers are as educated and well protected as they can be, to keep STI’s and unplanned pregnancies to the minimum.
or
2. Choice 2. – preach a lot of nonsense about “abstinence” that goes against the whole history of human evolution and the natural development of adolescents, which will guarantee that teens will enter the sexual world ignoraht, which will guarantee lots of unplanned pregnancies, STI’s, abortions, unwanted kids getting dumped in the foster care system, unwanted kids getting abuses ect.
It’s clear which choice is the good one here.
Beyond that, “abstinence education” usually promotes the double standard that only teenaged boys want sex and that teenaged girls do not have a sex drive.
This is not true.
But, since “abstinence education” is usually focused on getting the GIRLS to keep their legs closed, it leads to a lot of problems.
Like teenage girls not thinking they have any kind of sexual agency, which leads to them having prolbmes functioning as sexual adults later in life.
It also leads to teenaged girls who want to be sexual with their boyfriends but who want to still, technically, be “virgins” to engage in sexu that’s only pleasurable for the boy (that is, her performing oral sex on him, and him not reciprocating on her).
The whole mentality promoted by “abstinence education” also leads to an increse in date rapes, because, among other things, boys are taught that they do not have to respect young women who are no longer virtins.
All in all, “abstinence education” is a bunch of fundamentalist garbage, that has no business in our classrooms.
Our young adults ARE going to be sexually active, weather you like it or not.
They need to be informed educated and protected.
Every school district in America should follow Portland, Maine’s leade, and allow their students proper sex education, and access to contraceptives.
Well done to gangbox for injecting some commen sense into the discussion…
You may well morally dissapprove of teenagers being sexual and you may be right to do so but regardless of yours or anybody elses wishes they are and public policy has to be made in the realm of the real world not the puritanical fantasy world that people wished we lived in…
You can go in and perscribe all your like but since teenagers are naturally rebellious the only effect you would have is to prehaps push them to do the reverse of what you actually want…all in all this is a rather clumsy attempt to smear a whole poltical way for thinking for nothing less than the crime of being realistic…
It makes me sad to think that people like you fought so that sex education was not taught in schools – The result of course are 13 year old kids having sex – So now that the problem is here – what do you do – ignore it? or try and help the kids through it without getting sick or having babies – yes we need to teach them to make the right choice but if they don’t want too then what do we do? Gloat – Clean up after them – shake our heads and point fingers – or try and help! As for you – I suggest that you get down off of your high moral horse and help these kids find the right path.
Moral sense? Can you define “moral sense”? “Moral sense” is completely relative from person to person. How do you define it? The Bible, perhaps? What about non-believers (agnostics, atheists)?
And what about the pragmatics of abstinence-only education? All you have to go by is your experience (a psychologically unhealthy experience from what I understand). People between 13-19 are very sexual beings, no denying that, albeit very rebellious. Preaching abstinence only is not only ineffective, it’s also likely contributing to the problem.
So what do we do to these kids who are having sex no matter what? Leave them high an dry? Or do we attempt to promote safe sex?
Aurvant, for all your rhetoric, the alternative you are basically proposing is that we not give kids easy access to things that make them safer. Why? What purpose does that serve. It doesn’t make kids any more moral: it simply makes them less safe. Maybe that’s what you want. Maybe we should have fire extinguishers in schools either, because if we do, we might be sending a message that fire is okay. Right?
It’s rather amazing that such positions can be taken seriously. The opposite of sex education, for instance, is not moral upstanding kids: it’s simply kids ignorant of something that like it or not, is going to play a role in their lives and they might as well be educated about, instead of fumbling around in the dark. But instead, what is advocated is… ignorance. That helps who… how exactly? That has, what, again do with morality or teaching values?
Do values require that I remain ignorant of the consequences and nature of my actions?
So your plan is:
“Your going to do it anyways, so why not just be safe. It may or may not prevent pregnancy and it sure as hell wont protect against STD’s but hell…knock yourself out kids. We grown-ups don’t want to rain on your rebellious parade, so here’s a nice pack of pills and you can just go let loose.”
And as for whoever said “consequences of my actions” what consequences? In what part of this country does a kid who basically destroyed their life have any threat of consequence? I mean, really, we all know that once the kids have the babies or gets sick from some weird disease that they wont be held responsible. NO NO! The government will swoop right in and take whatever share out of my paycheck they feel is necessary to support whatever new “save the dumbass kids” program they’ve come up with that week.
Really wanna know what my plan would be? Let em live with their own problems and deal with their own mistakes. Don’t have medical insurance or the money to support the child? Tough! Deal with it the best you possibly can but don’t let them file for government aid so that “I” have to do the providing for them.
Do I think that children should have access to birth control? absolutely not. That just lets the leash travel just a bit farther than it let them before. In fact, I think that birth control should be made only available to married couples or couples who are living with each other.
Then, I propose that all government aid be dropped from supporting all of those ignorant and stupid enough to throw their lives away for 5 minutes of pleasure. That way the deterrence of “fear” would be created and then people might think twice before they go out and whore up the place, or at least the parents will keep a tighter watch on their children and actually punish them for being so retarded.
Are my ideas and methods compassionate or caring for those who have “screwed up”? No, they are not. I don’t need to be lectured on how teenagers are “highly sexual beings” I should know. I was one once upon a time. However, I was brought up with enough gosh darned sense to keep my pants on and stay level headed. My parents raised me -correctly- and I know that if I screwed up and got some girl pregnant then that meant it was over for me. I was attached to that kid for life whether I liked it or not. However, the fear and understanding of my actions made me smarter and better prepared to deal with temptation.
Perhaps if the children today were raised with the same understanding of how the world works as I did….well…maybe we wouldn’t need people stepping in and creating “pills for kids” programs.
But go ahead. Create your little liberal utopian world where people can do as they please and the government will come right in and clean up whatever mess they make for them. When it backfires and blows back in your faces I don’t want to hear any complaining ok? Might be hard to do since complaining is the staple for liberals, but just try not to be all upset when this plan backfires.
“complaining is the staple for liberals”: this is pretty silly, and why the rhetoric of this blog ultimately does the issues it covers little justice. aren’t you doing quite a bit of complaining yourself here, to make such dumb blanket statements as “complaining is the staple for liberals”? are you more concerned with the issues, or with feeling superior?
Most of the “progressive” responses remind me of a young “lady” I met once who said, “Yes, I practice safe sex; I use birth control pills.” And they think abstinence is something bad to teach.
As long as we keep telling teens that they are rebellious and sexual, we will keep rolling the ball down the hill. When I was in school, abstinence did a good job of protecting me from diseases and extremely difficult life decisions. At that time, most of my friends chose to wait. But when my niece was in school, all of her friends seemed convinced that the “V” word was profane, and hunted for any 20 something guy to fix their problem. Sadly they were too quickly successful and all of them had heartbreaking experiences related to that.
I have no qualms about teaching youths about various forms of birth control, but we need to stop trying to promote sex.
PS. to lotus – Heinlein was correct, but your deduction was wrong.
Show me how availability of birth control causes sex and maybe you’d have a case. But, even if you could do that, you’d have to pass some kind of threshold. If access to birth control caused one person to have sex a few months, or even years, early, yet kept 100 other kids from getting pregnant or STDs, that would be an acceptable risk. Especially since that one person having sex early would necessarily be having early protected sex rather then later unprotected sex.
But that’s all a lot more complicated then “Ewww! Sex! Dirty! Evil!”
I guess the state feels responsible to at least try to ensure no children are born due to sexual liaisons caused by parents lax moral attitudes. Oddly enough many parents have lax moral attitudes because they expect the public schools to teach their kids everything (including morals). The Christian parents just get caught up in the cross-fire between irresponsible parents and schools seeking to limit the consequences of those parents’ irresponsibility.
Perhaps I am being too generous to the public schools.
While my husband is the only person I have ever slept with and I fully intend to teach my children the infinite benefits of this decision, I would have no problem knowing their school offered birth control. If it’s not sex, it’s always something else tempting our children. The best defense is a home that sets a good example, which I intend to provide.
But if they do make a dumb decision (which is clearly possible, even you point out their brains aren’t fully developed) I’d want them to be protected so they wouldn’t be paying the consequences for a decision they made before their brain was even at full functioning capacity as you say.
Also, I feel sympathy for children who do not have the example I hope to provide for my kids. Whose parents are absent. Who look for love “in all the wrong places.” Girls who give into their boyfriends’ hormonal demands because they feel they have to to feel loved. Sad. Tragic in fact. How much easier to say no and save yourself for the right person when you see that this decision is realistic by the example of your parents. With so many broken households, particularly in more poverty stricken areas, such shining examples are a minority.
So such children are more likely to give into the “rabbit” mentality. Because it’s what they know from their FAMILY — not because a teacher told them what a condom was. I learned about every birth control in the book and it didn’t tempt me. Heck I had a condom given to me … it didn’t make me want to use it!
But other teens have been emotionally damaged in the way they view sex — in such a way that no health class will be able to fully undo the damage. Without protection available for such students, teenage pregnancies shoot up, and these emotionally damaged kids are too often inadvertantly teaching the same bad habits to children they weren’t ready to raise. It turns into a viscious cycle.
In fact, being a person who prides himself in being so much smarter than everyone, whose self-control is beyond that of the immoral masses, I would think you would applaud such decisions. Those of us who just aren’t as smart as you and don’t have your will power will be less likely to contribute more to the gene pool. But then who would you have to pass judgment on?
Though as an amendment, I am far more comfortable with schools doling out condoms per request. Birth control pills are far too easy to screw up, even for adult women. So a junior high kid would be infinitely more likely to forget, esp. if it was something they were keeping a secret with no one to help them, which let’s assume they are if they have to get them through the schools.
So I guess I am against this as well, but not for the same reasons.
How do yo propose “imposing some type of moral sense” on them? Cutting them off from TV, shopping malls and each other? Perhaps creating a special police force to spy into kids bedrooms see what they’re doing? Or maybe just punishing girls that get pregnant by socially excluding them and ostracizing them, and using them as examples of what happens to you when you do the forbidden act?
Those methods are already in use in broad swathes of our planet: it’s called Sharia law and is characteristic of religious fundamentalism of various kinds.
“Forbidden Act”??? Whoever said that sex was forbidden or wrong? I sure as heck didn’t. However, when a person (in this case teenagers and young adults who are ill prepared to deal with the consequences) has sex without thinking about having to handle responsibility then it is ignorant and immature.
SO! What are our different propositions?
- I propose that Sex Education be integrated with abstinence programs so that teens and young adults can be -EDUCATED- of the consequences of having sex. I propose that information regarding “safe sex” not be candy coated and the truth about contraceptives be taught in each sex education class. What “truths” and I speaking of?
1) Birth Control is not 100% effective and does not prevent the transfer of sexual transmitted diseases. Also, it must be used regularly and daily at the proper time to even get maximum effectiveness.
2) Condoms are not 100% safe. In fact, they aren’t even 95% safe and they easily break. Also, they do not prevent the transmission of STD’s.
3) ALL CONTRACEPTIVES are less than 100% effective. The only way to prevent STD transfer or unplanned pregnancy in young adukts and teens is to practice abstinence.
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What is your solution?
“Lets keep doing what we’ve done the past 15 years and hopefully it’ll start to work or something. Heck, I know we’re their parents but we cant be expected to stop them from being “carnal creatures” . Lets just keep applying band-aids and hopefully the wound will stop bleeding.”
At least thats the way it sounds to me. What I don’t understand is why people cant just wait until they are married. Religious aspects of the discussion aside, Why is it so difficult to just wait until you are prepared to take the full plunge with that -one- person and together you’ll be better equipped to deal with the hardships (and overall joy) of having a child. Also, if people practiced abstinence and the people they married also practiced it then that would eliminate the chance of transmitting diseases.
Sure, it would actually take -self “freakin’” restraint- on peoples parts but is that such a thing to admonish? People who are actually practicing self-control should be looked down on as “religious fundies and unexperienced wacko virgins?” kinda seems like a backwards way of looking at it to me.
As for the public aspect to the problem? Yeah, I dont like the fact that parts of my paycheck goes to welfare where the largest percentage of unwed teenage mothers and single parents reside. I don’t like forking out money that I work very hard for to some stupid kid who decided to screw up his/her life for 5 minutes of mind-dumbing pleasure and the idea that YOU think it is absolutely acceptable to continue this vicious cycle of poverty just makes me livid.
I have an idea. Instead of negatively criticizing and attacking the people and ideas that you disagree with, how about you quit whining, get off your ass and try to make some positive change???
have you ever wondered why conservative states haves such high teen pregnancy rates?
What a ridiculous statement. Unless you have data that suggests conservative teenage girls have higher pregnancy rates than liberal teenage girls, that is completely irresponsible. By the way, how many teenage girls have you ever heard announce themselves as conservative or liberal? If you actually go read, you’ll find that the states with the highest pregnancy rates tend to have higher rates of single parent homes, unemployed parents, school dropout rates and idle teen rates. There are also some interesting stats on race, but if I post those, i’ll just be accused of being a racist.
I am curious…do they hand out the prescriptions without parental knowledge?
My first thought is that adolescents with developing bodies shouldn’t be messing with their hormones.
Most of these girls will be experiencing their first period in middle school. That could become a rite of passage of a different sort. “I had my period! You know what that means! Birth Control! YAY! ”
Word gets around pretty fast. Before you know it, all the ‘cool kids’ at King will be taking birth control. Then the kids at the other middle schools across town are going to get jealous. Preteens will start dealing birth control like a street drug. Some stupid boys will take it recreationally and start growing breasts; their voices will never change.
Butt seriously! Giving birth control to kids without parental permission is a bit much. When they find 12 year olds humping in the bathroom what will they say? “Kids being kids! Now Jenny I hope you took your birth control today!”
I say make love not war. I say give them the birth control. Better this than they wind up a prune prude, a fucking jerk like you.
Just for the record, I took a quick look at sevnetus’ blog; I recommend everyone just ignore the above comment as a flame. Whether you are pro or con, sevnetus’ pattern seems to be inciting others. Have a nice day.
…the opprobrium of your reasoning rests upon the condition that you count on liberalism…to vindicate your pious self wish fulfilling melee…what you hate is the fact that the social darwinism that you don’t want…you find yourself hopelessly emured to…in your effort to encompass the totality of the experience of the life waged..in the understanding of phenomenon to which you must bare in the light of the human condition…that which preface’s from the fundamental belief that people are basically greedy and stupid…or that whether or not there is enough life sustaining material on planet Earth…
You should probably add some other parts of the story to give a little context. Oh, right – you want to bash liberals. Sorry. I guess I’ll have to post extra pieces of that story:
“After an outbreak of pregnancies among middle school girls, education officials in this city have decided to allow a school health center to make birth control pills available to girls as young as 11… Portland’s three middle schools reported 17 pregnancies during the last four years, not counting miscarriages or terminated pregnancies that weren’t reported to the school nurse.” (I’d post a link, but it would probably be flagged. You can google to find the article.)
Sounds to me like some parents aren’t doing their job. Is it a conservative value now to blame the schools for the failures of parents?
As a teenager who also happens to vote republican (99% of the time, anyway), I can never understand why (A) it is considered healthy to have sex and risk an STD while you are still recovering from puberty or (B) why so many people are so preoccupied with something that really only takes up about 0.09% of your life (maybe). I mean, lets face it… we are talking about surrendering 13-15 year olds to something that is designed to reproduce the human race? And this is viewed as a good thing why? I have never met a 15 year old with the maturity, skill, or even genuine desire to be a parent. Maybe I’m just turning “old fart” well before my time, or maybe I believe in such a thing as morals, but the fact is that having children have sex is a travesty… its a bigger disaster waiting to happen that we consider surrendering to that travesty. True enough, when kids have sex, the parents ultimately failed… however, for the last 30 years or so the American Parent has been looking to the school system as a kind of a safety net to teach their kids how to live. So when the schools morals decline, it’s only a matter of time before the kids in those schools become parents with the same lower morals. And so on and so forth. What is the real degradation of society? When we lose our sense of morality, honor, right and wrong…….. the degredation of society comes when we begin to compromise our ethics… and then we start down a long road that takes a very long and hard time to get back from.
Adam
Explain what you mean by “moral sense”. I wasn’t aware it was a concrete idea.
Do you honestly believe that denying teenagers access to contraception will dissuade them from having sex? Pretty naive, don’t you think?
What it would, inevitably, as history’s shown, lead to is a lot of unwanted pregnancies. Responsibility for one’s intimate life and a healthy attitude towards sexuality has little to do with abstinence.
I agree that it’s sad and wrong when adolescents rush to have their first sexual experience, often being too immature not to be harmed by it, but denying them access to contraception and thus pushing the whole issue into the sphere of taboo where it exists unspoken, does not solve anything.
I remember when we were in school, having sex was a big deal. We talked about it and feared it. We saw other girls get pregnant and have to leave school. We did our best to abstain and stayed safe because we were not encouraged.
I remember being told by my teachers and parents that sex was more than physical, that there were emotional and psychological consequences. It seems to me that if a Middle School is willing to supply birth control to minors, they are telling them that sex is merely physical and that does not leave alot of room for thought.
Kids look pretty lost to me, I wish I had set a better example and not condoned the lack of morality around me when I was walking through the wild side of life.
Politics should not be the center of debate, the true well being of children should. However, I do believe that “It takes a village” is a distraction from our individual responsibilities. Meanwhile our kids are in trouble. Hey what’s up with these teenage orgies? is this okay too?
Handing out birth control seems like an implicit endorsement of sexual activity. Abstinence should be emphasized as a part of sex education classes in middle school.
But schools can’t live in the world we wish existed. They have to live in the reality where the parents are the top influence on kids but followed closely by friends/society, and school is far behind. In this world many kids need to have access to contraceptives.
Parents who object should be able to opt their children out of this program and sex ed classes if they choose. But this is a worthwhile program that is not going to change the way kids act, but is merely a reflection of the way they already do.
I came to this site hoping to find a post regarding “Progressives on the Side of Dirty Lesbianism.” I must confess I’m a little bit disappointed.
Yeah, I think Hillary’s campagin headquarters are next door… sorry about the confusion…
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
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