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Eryx
said, 9 months ago
Because they are their friends, neighbors, and relatives (including you, closet case)?
Murphy224 said, 9 months ago
@Eryx
I’m sure there are people into all kinds of different sex in the neighborhood, but it doesn’t mean a school has to tell my kid about it. What’s next “Swingers Month” in schools?
Ketira shena Pretarasedrin
said, 9 months ago
@Murphy224
Why not? Since it is becoming more and more prevalent in Society, it’s better that a child know about all the variations. Besides, I bet your kid knows more about AIDS than you do…. but you’d have to ask him/her.
Respectful Troll said, 9 months ago
PJ O’Rourke’s book, Driving Like Crazy, talks about the death of the American car. I bring it up because one of his points is this- our teens do not need to borrow the family car in order to find a quiet place to engage in premarital sex. Teens today just come home from school to an adult free house with no adult neighbor watching out for kids in the neighborhood. there is nothing to stop them from having sex, doing drugs, or generally engaging in dangerous behaviors because our society doesn’t consider parental caregivers as important or valuable. Too many single parent homes just add to the problem. Having children is easy. Caring for them and teaching them to become part of a society that cares for them is harder, especially since our society is more and more afraid of its children.
And most of the children killed, maimed, or driven into the streets as runaways come from heterosexual homes. Children learn what they live. Give them a good life, and they will become good adults. We need more good adults.
Sadly, but respectfully,
C.
MortyForTyrant said, 9 months ago
@Respectful Troll
Weeeeellll, there are a few issues I like to address. For one there is economics. The 1950’s model of “dad is of to work and mum cares for the kids” is no longer possible. Dad now has three jobs and mum works part-time, all of which is just to get food on the table. The other issue is entertainment. Ever since parents were able to put their kids in front of a TV the decline in parent-child relations has increased. The third issue is a general coldness of society. Children see dad being laid off because of some outsourcing and accept this as “the new normal”. Look at all these killing-sprees (VT, Batman). People are cold and indifferent to each other now, how can one expect to become a caring, loving
adult in this environment. We are all becoming
“The Borg”…
Bruce4671 said, 9 months ago
@Respectful Troll
And so the answer to the problem then is training the very young that anything goes. Whatever sexual situation you find yourself in is ok. If your friend John wants to experiment with you it’s just a normal thing. If you get pregnant well have an abortion if you get aids well we are working on the cure. But here have a condom or two or birth control child my 12 year old child. See Fred has two mom’s and angie two dads. It’s all good.
It is sad that parents have been trained to turn over their responsibility for their children to institutions. The “family” unit is the only basis for a stable society we are reaping what has been sown.
onguard said, 9 months ago
Given the Face pictured, the Dude may be right on…….Dem Libs are the master of manipulation.
Dredpiraterobt$ said, 9 months ago
How much does your child really learn about black people during Black History Month?
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They’re going to learn even less about the LGBT community during an LGBT month.
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This having been said… there is an age appropriate issue here. We don’t have “sex ed” for third graders because it’s #1 a waste of time in that kids won’t understand and #2 inappropriate.
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I don’t think that we would want to involve little children in Prostitution Awareness Month either. Even though it would be a good ide to let teens know that much of the pron they are seeing is the product of a degraded life. Not something to aspire to, regardless of how famous the Kardashians and Paris Hilton became because of it!
Eryx
said, 9 months ago
@Murphy224
See, here’s the thing. Most parents are not sexologists and not equipped (and maybe not inclined) to discuss the full spectrum of human sexuality and all its various permutations. Good parents provide a supportive environment to ask questions, answer them in a non-judgmental way, and help their children locate answers to questions that they don’t know themselves.
Eryx
said, 9 months ago
@onguard
As the strip says…