That's right. There are plenty of resources out there for parents to do THEIR job. We had a book that was called "where did I come from" that was geared for kids from 4-12 yrs old. Great book. Made it nice and easy to understand. Stressed that sex was for when you "love" someone. Explained what happens, how the baby develops, and how it is born. Explained copulation and orgasms, sperm and egg.
What I object to, is the obvious trivialization of sex. It seems to me, that what todays "sex ed" does is promote sex amongst teens and younger by explaining the hows in iintimitate detail when they are far too young. how to use lubricants for **** sex. They introduce fetishes. Yet they don't stress the consequences, both physical and mental of having sex when one is a teen or younger. They do a great job of telling them how wonderful it is, and how good it can feel, but not the fact that pregnancy is a REAL possibility no matter what contraceptives they use and how having sex too soon can be psychologically damaging not to mention the psychological damage a pregnancy or abortion can have on their immature minds.
This reminds me of when the schools decided to teach the kids that they had "rights" without teaching them that there are real responsibilities and possible consequences for those "rights". Once again I see a half a$$ job being done.
and...... if you're going to teach these kids
how to get pregnant
, then how about teaching them to be good parents then. Why only do half the job.
Yep, and that's the book I was refering to. It's a great book. Too bad it's not used to teach kids.
IMO it depends on what you mean by young. Just how 'young' is young? A five year old wanting to know what the name of their private parts is, isn't too young to be taught the proper names. A seven year old asking their mother where babies come from isn't too young to learn about pregnancy. A ten year old asking how the baby got 'inside' their mother (if they don't already know) isn't too young to know.
If the kids are old enough to ask the question, they're old enough to know.
I do agree that the details shouldn't be explained to kids until they're in their teens, I agree that things like a n a l sex shouldn't be discussed until they're older, and that the consequences of sex as a teen and younger DOES need to be discussed.
I totally agree if what is being taught is how 'wonderful' pregnancy and all is, then they SHOULD be also teaching parenthood. The half-azzed crap needs to stop. But the parenthood stuff goes hand in hand with the teaching of sex ed.
What I see the problem being is that the PARENTS who should be the ones teaching this stuff AREN'T, and so they leave it up to the rest of the world to deal with the issue. Yet they bytch and complain when the world steps in to do the job and are the first to say "I don't want my kid to know this! You're infringing on my rights as a parnet!" Instead of the parents protesting WITH those same "underage kids" holding signs of "protect my innocence" (which is ironic; those same 9 year olds are protesting about the course their parents don't want them involved with and likely they'll try to learn more when mom and dad AREN'T around which voids their own arguments) how about really discussing the issue and coming up with a parent AND school approved plan, or at least one that everyone can deal with.
But NO plan, or an outdated plan, is no option.
What does teaching 9 year olds that they can choose their gender have to do with 13 year olds getting pregnant?
Hoboy... I don't get where you think 'choosing gender' does have anything to do with pregnancy but since you brought it up...
You don't choose gender and you're confusing sex with gender which is totally different. While gender roles should be discussed in health class, I personally don't think sex ed classes is the place for it. Sadly that's where it usually ends up because people still don't know there's a difference.
As to your hypothetical situation: kids as young as 4 are telling their parents now that they are not a boy/girl and while it may be a phase, this isn't true of all kids. So said 9 year old has a damn good reason to want to discuss gender, gender roles and what being gay/lesbian/bi OR trans is.
It has nothing to do with a thirteen year old getting pregnant, or it shouldn't.
