You post an answer, then edit it after I quote your post. But that’s fine, I called you out publicly, you do you.
Fair enough.
Dear Reader: do any of you really believe that teenagers are going to be SO inconvenienced by lack of birth control that they don’t have sex? Or is the more likely outcome that they WILL have sex without prophylactics, and just hope for the best?
And before you answer, please consider these 3 things:
1)-your own history. Did you ever have sex as a teen without contraception?
2)-did your friends or classmates?
3)-did you know that the pre-frontal cortex, which is responsible for consideration of consequences, is still developing in teens?
If you quoted my post, then I could not change what you had quoted. There is a little button you push to pull down the post you are quoting.
Alternately, you can adjust your post if any change I made to my post would change your response. Did it?
If I want to add something to my post, your having responded will not prevent me from doing that. If I did so, it was not in consideration to,what you typed.
Children mimic what they see adults do. It’s how they learn. And they are seeing a lot of sex, both on screen and now at primary school camouflaged as " lessons". So they copy.
It’s why the previous generations shielded minors from exposure to graphic sexual content
I think the “ they are gonna do it anyway” is a faulty premise.
I did not have sex under 18.
I had a healthy fear of pregnancy.
I raised my 4 children to have a healthy fear of pregnancy and disease.
None of my 3 sons became teenage fathers and my daughter did not become a teen age mother. I did not put my daughter on birth control and believe she was a virgin until she was 20. My sons, I am not 100% sure when they were no longer virgins, but I do know that I taught them that no birth control is 100% effective except abstinence. As a stroke of luck, locally there was a news story about some kids that got caught at Walgreens sticking a corsage pin through boxes of condoms. The reporter stated that they couldn’t visually locate the pin ■■■■■ in the actual condom. Scared the bejesus out of my teenage sons.
I regress. It is our privilege and responsibility to raise our children in the way in which we think is correct.
My children do not believe in everything I believe in as adults. And they are also privileged and responsible for raising their children the way they choose to.
The state should have no right to usurp my rights as a parent, without a clear and present danger that they can prove in court to override that right.
And it is not ever dangerous to choose to abstain from sex.
I did teach my children about birth control. I just taught them the actual truth about birth control. I taught them truths about premarital sex. I taught them reality.
I put all of my efforts into raising responsible adults. Not some of my efforts, ALL . Once we became parents, they were our focus. They were our priority.
There is a huge difference between sphincter and hormonal control.
By the way teen pregnancies are down to what i believe are record lows and yet we keep screaming about how there are no more nuclear families or how parents aren’t teaching their kids the right things
But anyway as to the subject of the thread. This is extremely difficult to reconcile. We seem to always be playing seesaw with what our kids can do and at what age without parental involvement. One option (and it’s not the end all be all) is that the state notifies the parents of kids in public schools that contraception will be made available and that their child will have access. Then the parent can make a decision on what to do with that information.
Look, y’all can disagree with me. That’s fine. I will again say, I taught my kids the truth. I taught them that their bodies were made to have desires and they would manifest in a physical way. I taught them it was natural and to expect it. I also taught them the consequences. We discussed not putting yourself in a situation where it would be easy to allow your body control over your mind.
The comparison of potty training, was the teaching. I could use speaking as well. If you speak 2 languages to your children, they will learn 2 languages. The only reason all children aren’t bilingual is because some people didn’t speak/ teach their children a second language.
They won’t learn it , if don’t teach it. So no, they aren’t going to do it anyway.
