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3. Will you support funding for abstinence-until-marriage education instead of for explicit sex-education programs, school-based clinics, and the distribution of contraceptives in schools?
Yes, the explicit sex-ed programs will not find my support.
The survey found that while most parents approved of their children being taught about using condoms and contraceptives to avoid pregnancy and disease, they did not want them being taught about masturbation, sexual fantasies and homosexuality and did not want middle schools' teaching children how to unroll condoms, all subjects in the sex education guidelines.
When Obama's campaign was asked by ABC News to explain what kind of sex education Obama considers "age appropriate" for kindergarteners, the Obama campaign pointed to an Oct. 6, 2004 story from the Daily Herald in which Obama had "moved to clarify" in his Senate campaign that he "does not support teaching explicit sex education to children in kindergarten
Originally posted by spines
perhaps teaching teenagers about it is a good idea.
Parents are free to teach their children about safe sex practices, but do not do so in many cases.
If parents aren't teaching their children about safe-sex, and the schools aren't either...then who is left? Movies and television?
Originally posted by sos37
I think the key to understanding where she stands here is understanding what the meaning of an "explicit sex education program" opposed to a regular one.
Originally posted by sos37
The difference in the two interviews is the media asked Obama to clarify his statement, whereas in Palin's case the media took her statement, didn't ask her to clarify it, and ran with it.
Originally posted by spines
If her stance is not one of abstinence first I would be very surprised. And I don't think anyone would assume her stance is otherwise.
Originally posted by spines
I shouldn't have had to learn about all this from my older sister.
Originally posted by nyk537
But you should have had to learn about it from some strange person teaching a class at school?
Originally posted by spines
reply to post by sos37
If your daughter was gay, do you honestly think she would come to you with her confusion? Or if she started to have sexual fantasies that are new to her, would she really tell you and your wife about them?
She might, but most kids won't/wouldn't.
This is no shot at your ability to parent.
I never had a sexual fantasy that confused me and thought, "Gee, I should ask my mom and dad about that".
It seems unrealistic to assume that any type of majority of parents will/can talk to their children about sexual education; it is blindness to assume that any majority of children will ask about things such as their desire to masturbate or that they are having fantasies or that they are gay.
Explicit sex ed accomplishes something which many parents/children are unwilling to even begin.
edits for clarification of point.
[edit on 9/24/0808 by spines]
[edit on 9/24/0808 by spines]
Originally posted by nyk537
Just an idea here, but perhaps if parents don't want their kids having sex, they should teach them about safe sex practices and the like.
Since when is it a schools responsibility to raise our children?
People need to start taking more responsibility for their own lives and blaming everything on someone else.
Originally posted by kidflash2008
reply to post by spines
If students have questions that parents don't want to ask, that is what PE teachers and coaches are for.