Is it normal that i think parents should teach their teens more about sex...

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I think that parents should teach their teens about sex and, if necessary, offer them birth control or money that can be used for birth control.

Let's face it. Many teens have sex. It's a fact of LIFE. However, many teens go into the game not having the knowledge to play it correctly. Often times, this results in the transmission of STDs and STIs and yes, pregnancy.

Why should the state be responsible for teaching kids the birds and the bees and providing birth control? Isn't this sort of guidance the PARENTS job to provide?

Parents, I know that you don't want your teens having sex, and I respect anyone's religious views, but I feel that parents should not only instruct their children of life's hard lessons, but be an open source of knowledge, protection AND be open to the truth.

Sure, I know many parents want their children, ESPECIALLY daughters, to wait until they are older and married, but as a parent, what would you rather hear? Mom, I'd like to go on birth control and have some condoms so I can have sex safely and responsibly? Or, Mom, I think I am pregnant?

Even if your children do not need the knowledge now, and do live a "clean" lifestyle, if they are like most other human beings, they WILL have sex, and will NEED that knowledge eventually.

I'm not saying to encourage your child to have sex, I'm not even saying to let them! I am saying, that parents should be open to discussing that with their children and GIVE THEM the tools (education and access to birth control) necessary for them to make responsible and wise decisions.

My Mom did this for me, and I haven't had any children or STDs. I keep up with my birth control faithfully and she gave me the tools and knowledge to do it, and I have continued it into adulthood.

is it normal that I think parents should take steps to teach their kids about sex and provide them with the tools to have safe sex?

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  • Pisslan616
    11 years ago

    I mostly agree.
    However there is always the danger that the parents have really nasty opinions. They could be homophobic or be strong supporters of abstinence only (which had been proved to be ineffectual).They could refuse to buy contraception or make a gay teen feel ashamed of themselves.

    I don't think that parents should be the only source of info. I reckon sex ed in schools Is important too. Having more than one source of information can help someone to make an informed decision.

    Also I like the fact that I can get free contraception from the clinic. It gives the teen some independent so that they don't rely on their sometimes unwilling parents to provide it.

    I guess my point is that not all parents are good parents and in those cases we need something else to educate properly.

    But i recon most parents are good and overall I agree with you. Parents should teach their kids about sex.

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    • NeuroNeptunian
      11 years ago

      I understand perfectly, but I think parents need to get over themselves and get their heads out of the sand, if that is the case.

      I find it sad that schools are faced with the burden of having to teach kids about sex.

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  • mrbrownfinger
    7 years ago

    definitely - education is the best way to protect yourself.

    I also think the same about drugs, if they want to do it they'll do it no matter what you say. Educated them about what drugs are, what they do and how to know when too much is too much

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  • Salina12
    7 years ago

    Yes bc teens should know the safety about sex.

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  • Lynxikat
    11 years ago

    I agree that parents should teach their kids more about sex and birth control, but to offer them money and birth control? That I don't agree with- if the kid wants to have sex, make them spend their own money on condoms and birth control pills.

    But everything else, I agree with.

    Oddly enough, my mom taught me about sex and girls' puberty, but it was my school that taught me about STDs and birth control (Specifically condoms. Diaphragms, sponges, those birth control rings that I see on commercials- I learned all of that on my own).

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  • Avant-Garde
    11 years ago

    Yes, I agree with you 100%! I got my period at nine and years leading up to it I barely knew anything about the Birds and the Bees or even what a period was. Imagine my shock and horror when I got it! Then, my family gave a crap health book and expected me to know the ways of the world. I still barely knew anything until Started social networking and becoming more in tuned with the net. All that is quite recent! It's like my family actually expected me to know all of it without being properly taught. WTF?! Not teaching your kids is like sending a lamb out for slaughter. It should mandatory that everyone is taught properly!

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  • DudeUrFuglyXox
    11 years ago

    yes, that way there would be less teen pregnancy and less STI's

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  • [Old Memory]
    11 years ago

    If God didnt want those people to have kids, then he wouldnt have given them the miracle that they are carrying around.

    Personally I think birth control should be considered sinful.

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    • DarthLupine666
      11 years ago

      If God did not want us to have birth control, would He have allowed its development in the first place? Does the Lord not wish us, His children, to be strong for ourselves, that we may serve His will more intelligently? Is it not possible that He allowed this (birth control) to develop while He watched us, His children, grow as a people, that we might have a tool in our hands to permit us to better care for the world He gave to us, as we, His children, "matured"? Is it not possible that we, as His children, have "outgrown our playpen", so to speak, and thus would it be so much a sin to accept the tools that Our Father has left to us as we grow into a more advanced stage of being?

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      • [Old Memory]
        11 years ago

        You are distorting the image of what God truly is. Human beings created birth control, God didnt miraculously deliver it to Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden did he? God has given us free will to decide for ourselves what our fate's will be. God's will is creating man in his image with the ultimate goal to continue procreating more man, also in his image, to further serve his benevolent will. If God didnt want more people on the planet then he simply wouldnt make women pregnant.

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        • NeuroNeptunian
          11 years ago

          Good point. Ultimately God wants what's best for his children, though. I doubt I'd have been given the intelligence and resources to use the pill if what was best for me entailed an unwanted pregnancy and poverty. I feel that it is pertinent to make the best of what we are given. I was given a working class family in a country that offers birth control practically for free, and I don't consider digging my family deeper into financial distress serving the lord or making the best of my resources. Ideologically I could be totally wrong but shoot, I am not having to listen to any screaming babies while I am doing homework and barely making ends meet. If Gods plan were for me to be a mother at 20 I doubt a few synthetic hormones would have gotten in the way. They haven't for some women...

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      • NeuroNeptunian
        11 years ago

        This is basically what was written in the Gospel Principals book that our church teaches from.

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    • BlueAlice
      11 years ago

      You're a stupid Barlow Boy/Barlow Girl

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