Perhaps that is true of you or others, but it is not true of many good people out there who live good, moral and decent lives.
I sometimes can’t help but think that we are so far gone, that we are truly lost and there is no hope. .
By “we” I am referring to the culture as a whole.
Perhaps this is true of you and your circle of acquaintances but I know many good, moral and decent people and it is not true of them.
You persist in misunderstanding me. I am not talking about something my friend told me. (My friends are good Catholics, for the most part.)
What newspaper article ever said that it is shameful to have had less than seven sexual partners by the time you are of dating age?
My son just went through the Right S.T.A.R.T. program at school. A quote from one of the brochures he brought home:
It is not true of me. I try to live a moral and decent life according to the teachings of the Church. I am talking about the country in general. This is my country. When I discuss America, as an American, I use the pronouns “we” and “us.” I fear for all of us in this nation because when I think we have hit rock bottom, it seems we just keep sliding further into the pit of depravity.
Some of them need it by 11 or 12. I don’t see harm in knowledge. Failure to inform kids of potential danger is wrong. If your kid remains chaste, then it won’t really matter if he or she understands what a condom is used for, or how to use it.
Good parents can teach their children NOT to act on their hormones. If boys or girls are taught its okay to have sex, then they’ll ending up thinking its okay to do other immoral things.
Kids are not adults. They make mistakes. Let them live a healthy life. Don’t burden them with a pregnancy or lifelong disease to satisfy your own moral truculence. It is a false victory if you live in the real world.
The knowledge itself may not be harmful for **some **11 or 12 year olds. However, the presentation of this knowledge in the context of classroom teaching is an assault on a child’s psychological latency. The same knowledge delivered by loving parents or even a health professional is not as psychologically damaging as for the child to hear it from a teacher while sitting with his peers. Developmentally inappropriate information, especially during the latency period can keep a child from ever developing a healthy attitude about sex or about man-woman relationships.
I don’t have enough expertise on child psychology to know. Behaviorally and physically, puberty is arriving earlier. Nobody is sure why. I was in 6th grade when we had sex education. That would have been the age of 10. The timing was about right. I was the first one in my peer group to start puberty, even though most of them were a year older than I.
The one I was reading yesterday that I was telling you about in the earlier post.
And which one is that and what page was this article on?The one I was reading yesterday that I was telling you about in the earlier post.
I don’t see anything wrong with explaining the mechanics of sex, birth control, the dangers of STD’s etc to kids BEFORE they have sex. That is not a moral education, it is biology. Along with that should be the simple facts that the only way to be certain not to catch in STD is not to have sex. The only way to be certain not to have a pregnancy is not to have sex. It should also be pointed out that there are moral issues to consider.
