Who said I was agreeing 100% with Sunstone?
He rocks, but we don´t agree on everything, nor I think we need to.
All factors there have a role. The only indispensable factor is the person (kid, teen, adult you name it)
Parents don´t hold unlimited power over their kids nor they should. You see how the kid is up there in the ladder? He will need info to do whatever he does. If the parents wont provide the info he will turn on friends and other sources of info. Schools need to give info so that parents and friends dont give bad info that messes with his head. Or just in case the kid wont even try to listen to his parents.
But I think we agreed on sex education classes, or did we not? I am advocating classes that give info. Including the real piece of info that is that abstinence is the best way of prevention, but also including all the info about how to have sex when they do, so they can do it in a responsible and safe manner for them and others involved.
Ah! sometimes I read things while I am answering them
Well I disagree with you. All of us have the rights to an education. Before caring about the parent society must care about the person. He must be able to get information that is vital to his health and security, if the parent doesn´t want to give that info, that is his mistake, and one that the person doesn´t need to pay for.
We all take decisions at all stags of our life. You are unable to take away their power of decision, so the very least you should do is inform them so their decisions are not major screw ups.
Besides, most women in your bible had sex way before 18 (and I am willing to bet before 16) . I am not at all against abstinence, but people have been having sex since teenhood for millennia.
We should stop uninformed, non consensual unhealthy sex. But there is a reason they dont look like kids anymore.
They are no longer so.
As I said: they dont feel like kids feel. They dont think like kids think, and they dont act as kids act.
It´s just real.