Posted on 08/21/2013 11:36:20 AM PDT by NYer
There was sex ed in Catholic schools 40 years - it may not have been called sex ed, but it was taught - I know because I spent 12 years in Catholic schools and graduated 35 years ago.
Sex positive proponents seek to see everyone sexually active at every age (including children). Planned Parenthood’s “education” wing is under SIECUS which pushes this agenda.
Positive.org tells kids to “just say yes” in essence because “too many snooty people tell you to say no and stuff”.
Bury your head in the sand and believe it to be as when you were growing up. The agenda is pushed in school (Massachusetts taught safe fisting), hospitals, and on taxpayer funded “medical” and “academic” websites.
The goal is to end all moral judgments about sexual pairings of ANY kind regardless of sex, age, relation, marital status, number, or species of partner(s).
Sex education has been on the slide since the 1960s from “biology” and “hygiene” into discussions of acceptance of homosexuality, experimentation (and encouragement to do so), birth control (playing with condoms in class), do it yourself day-after pill purchasing, offsite visits to abortionists (without parental knowledge or consent),...
To elaborate further, a parent can't serve as a full-time moral compass for their children, particularly as they get older. An example, yes. A teacher, sure. But they simply cannot be there 24/7.
That's when the child's moral compass needs to kick in - let them critically evaluate what they've been exposed to. My ultimate goal would be to have WBill Jr say "Meh, No thank you." when exposed to (for instance) the garbage that PP pushes. I wouldn't expect that advanced critical thinking at age 4, but then I kept a lot closer rein on him at that age. At age 14, I can't, and don't want to be, a helocopter parent.
The high school in which I teach was embroiled in a rape case that gained international exposure. Now our state’s AG opened up the grand jury tp possibly indict adults that might have allegedly known about this. All of the students, except one, involved in this are from our coveted scholars program. They are our “good kids.” they rack up hundreds of volunteer hours, make themselves known in church, attend all the important events, and are on executive boards for Key Club, YWCA, etc. Their college applications will not be lacking in any areas. These “good kids” are now being subpoenaed for testimony, and parents are discovering these “good kids” drink excessively (some every night), smoke weed, and have sex. A few parents aren’t surprised as they are the ones supplying the booze and places to party. This has been going on since middle school, and all of the kids have managed to keep it a well organized secret.
Schools are getting to the point of repeatedly instructing kids that their parents don’t know everything (God, sexuality, global warming, fairness and redistribution, white privilege, etc).
Al Gore and others have explicitly used this approach to undermine parental authority.
The new morality is amorality. With academia, media, and medical professionals (two of which are “authority” figures) it is a constant battle against Left Wing agit prop.
When I am in the store I make it a point to turn every magazine I see around backwards. We “pay forward” on the dvr and only watch shows we record so we can FF through the commercials. My kids never spend the night at anyone’s house we haven’t known for years or are related to.
My only point was that it has not just been “government” schools teaching what t times has been called everything from sex ed to biology and hygiene and health.
I have a 15yo daughter, I spend a fair amount of time around kids that age. I’m pretty impressed with what I hear from the crowd she hangs with and the reasons they want nothing to do with the other “crowds.” It can be downright comical at times, but it is also scary for not only them but for us as parents about what they are exposed to, even inadvertently.
I will never forget how mortified I was in 6th grade when my mother was the only mother who decided to attend the session on menstruation at school, except of course for the school nurse who gave the class. Needless to say, when a similar type of class was being given 4 years ago when my daughter was in 6th grade I didn’t want to do to her what my mother did to me. Boy was I shocked when she said I “had” to go because she didn’t want to be the only one of her friends whose mother did NOT attend.
I attended Catholic school, she attends public school.
1. “a youth pastor who sexually abused me during my junior year of high school”
2. “I didn’t know what certain words meant or if what the youth pastor was doing to me was good or bad”
3. “I was too afraid to ask.”
Uh, I think THOSE are the three things that were the real problem, namely: sexual abuse by a “religious” figure, ignorance of the basic facts of life a junior in high school should have been taught but wasn’t, and being raised in an environment of fear, ignormance and a lack of adult support that fostered the environment for the first two items to occur.
It wasn’t the Internet and “porn” that caused these problems, it was because adults were not doing their jobs to educate and protect their children from REAL WORLD horrors.
Never mind schools, you only need to turn on the TV for 5 minutes to see that. :-)
When I was in school - particularly Jr High and HS - I thought that my teachers were mostly fools. With the advantage of hindsight, age, and experience, I can see that ...yep... they mostly were. A short handful of good ones, a double handful of complete morons, and the rest were a lackluster group of forgettables.
I'll walk out on a limb here, and guess that today's teenagers haven't improved their opinion of the authority figures in their lives.
So, is it possible that a child with a solid relationship with their parents, one that's been built on trust and over years of hard work, will toss all that out the window because Mrs/Mr Smith, the waycool transsexual English teacher who *never* assigns homework, and who *all* the kids think is awesome....says so? I've got a higher opinion of my kid than that.
However, and to your point, I think that argument *certainly* could be made that Planned Parenthood, or other media outlets, or that strawman (strawperson?) English teacher that I fabricated, would look for the weaker kids. Maybe ones without good parental relationships, or with weaker, "my kids are my best friends"-type parents, or without parents at all. I'm not so sure what to do there, predators will always look for prey. I just volunteer where I can in the community, and do the best job I can with my own kids so that maybe they can be an example for others.
There’s a simple solution to all this: don’t ever give your child a smartphone. And limit internet usage at home with filters. If you want your kids to be safe get them a Net10 or Tracfone that can’t send image texts.
The sex ed you got was merely info about your body which fit nicely with the Church's teachings on virtue.
This newer type of sex ed is specifically designed to remove any connection between God and the child's soul. It was developed by SEICUS and other sex-obsessed entities and patterned after the sex research of Alfred Kinsey.
Well it’s a big deal... With the explosion of high speed Internet you have young men with no social skills and truly horrible cases of ED.
About 70,000 of them discuss their struggles on a board called no fap on reddit.com
Spend an hour there and tell me it’s no big deal.
But putting "your kid has seen pornography" on the same list as "your kid has had a homosexual relationship" is ridiculous. I remember a few years ago, just trying to look online at something from Dick's Sporting Goods or BJ's warehouse brought up pornography. I remember onetime I typed BJWarehouse.com with my grandson sitting on my lap. Yikes! Big mistake, but by the same token, of course your kid has seen pornography by the time he's a teenager.
Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it....chances are you won’t either.
I can't help but think of the teachers who teach that stuff. Do they get their jollies by "opening" the minds of youth?
And, how many teachers protested books like that who were let go soon after they complained.
With the combination of "safesearch is locked" and OpenDNS blocking, I have not seen an objectionable image in over a decade and am on the Internet all the time. Bing has a similar safe search feature. Highly recommend you use these.
You are so right!! Last month, here in NY, just past 10 pm, advertising began for Trojan lubricants. No holds barred ... right out in the open on cable television. Apparently I am not the only one who was shocked at the advertising. The ads lasted about 3 weeks and then ... poof! ... disappeared.
I’m still trying to recover from a search I did years ago for “children’s playhouses” when I wanted to build something for my girls.
A couple weeks ago, AdBlock autocorrected my “www.bible.com” URL to a porn site address. They still haven’t explained that one to my satisfaction.
It can be a mortal sin. Best to not get in the habit. Boys and girls.
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