Rakhel
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Wow, did we go to different schools! You're high school sounds like my grammar school.
LOL Middle America. Central Western Ohio to more precise.
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Wow, did we go to different schools! You're high school sounds like my grammar school.
I agree and I have done this with my teens and will do so with my younger ones when the time is right.
However, I am saying that Draka is right to a point.
"Everyone is doing it." doesn't really apply to everyone. I wasn't having sex in my teens and I knew of only 10 in a school of 500 that were known to be sexually active. It was my experience that more kids were drinking and/or do drugs than they were having sex, though in most cases those activities do go hand in hand.
I thought I agreed with her too. My high school was statistically higher on the sex side than yours but there were plenty of kids not getting any. Strangely enough, the band was very promiscuous. All my friends and my girl friend were in the Band, bunch of party animals.
When I went to school in the 60/70s, sex ed was part of biology class. That means adolescents would have been approx. 11/12 years of age when they came across it first.T Personally I am in favor of comprehensive sex education starting as early as elementary school, perhaps even younger. ..Also with the possible exception of abortion(though ideally that too) all of these topics would be required course work the way math and science are required.
Regarding the American school system it should also be pointed out that it is school boards that decide what happens in individual schools more so than that that impersonal entitythe government. It is local people who lord it over those who do not have the power to influence decisions made by the school boards.Here is the major problem I have with your ideals. Who's ethics and morality is being taught? Yours? Mine? Are you assuming we will all agree in one moral system? Surely you jest, The public school system in the USA does what the government wants it to do not what parents want for their kids. That is why parents must take back the control and teach our kids sexual moral conduct at home not rely on others to teach them their views on the matter.I am not against health class, I had it in 6th grade and I was fine learning of std's and other risks, no problem with that at all, but when the schools pass out condoms and condone promiscuity as long as it is latex controlled, no thanks!
I must have misunderstood what you were saying. I'm sorry
What are your thoughts on sex education? Should it be done in schools? left to the parents? Why? If it is taught in schools what should be covered, what should be avoided and when should it start?
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I cannot answer that because we are dealing with teenagers and how is promiscuity possibly properly managed ? I have worked with teenagers in crisis situations after promiscuity and I fail to see a success story. Maybe you could define what a properly managed promiscuity looks like?
To answer the OP, I think comprehensive sex education from an early age is the best policy. It should cover the nuts and bolts and leave moral questions to the child's own conscience. After all, teenagers are not children. You're not going to be able to just tell them what to do and expect that they will do it, whether you're promoting healthy, safer sex or forbidding sex entirely.
I had this type of education growing up, both at home and at school from age twelve upwards. I waited until I was 17. Knowing how to put a condom on years earlier did not cause me to rush out and try it, but the information came in handy eventually.
I have no problem with pointing out that abstinence is the most reliable way to prevent unwanted consequences. After you're done pointing that obvious fact out, there is a hell of a lot of territory to cover, and repeating the obvious is going to be a waste of valuable class time.
Ideally, sex should be taught by parents, so I guess schools will teach it. What we need to add to sex education is responsibility. Since people are against teaching abstinence at all, we can at least teach children that having sex with multiple partners can cause- unwanted pregnancies, the spread of STDs-including HIV, and many other things. Sex, to me, is supposed to be a beautiful thing between two people who love each other- I won't try to push that value on anyone else, but that is the way I see it. My thought is that multiple partners cheapens it.
Sorry about my soap box.
I am not against sex education.
Ideally, sex should be taught by parents, so I guess schools will teach it. What we need to add to sex education is responsibility. Since people are against teaching abstinence at all, we can at least teach children that having sex with multiple partners can cause- unwanted pregnancies, the spread of STDs-including HIV, and many other things. Sex, to me, is supposed to be a beautiful thing between two people who love each other- I won't try to push that value on anyone else, but that is the way I see it. My thought is that multiple partners cheapens it.
Sorry about my soap box.
I am not against sex education.
Sorry, but who is against teaching abstinence "at all"? I didn't see that post.
People say that teaching abstinence is ineffectual. I know I am jumping to conclusions, but in my mind, that is what I come up with.
I think you haven't properly expressed yourself in this post.
Children should be taught that having sex with pretty much anyone carries the risk of STDs including HIV ( multiple partners increase the risk ), and that sex with fertile people also carries the risk of unwanted pregnancy.
People say that teaching abstinence is ineffectual. I know I am jumping to conclusions, but in my mind, that is what I come up with.
I think the public statements made by certain public figures - for example that you can't get pregnant from rape - demonstrate that religious sex education is very poor and misleading.