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I was just saying to a friend the other day, our society places such a low value on protecting children and treating children as children, whether it's through the media, clothes, divorce, latchkey children, etc. If you have limits you are considered "overly protective" or "old-fashioned," a defensive response from adults who aren't willing to do the same.

So the answer to these children having sex early is not to parent them better, spend more time with them (children with parents and responsible adults with them at all time can't get pregnant), etc., but to invade childhood yet further and teach sex ed to five-year-olds. Sickening.

So the answer to these children having sex early is not to parent them better, spend more time with them (children with parents and responsible adults with them at all time can't get pregnant), etc., but to invade childhood yet further and teach sex ed to five-year-olds. Sickening.

My wife and I have enrolled our 5-year-old daughter in private religious school. We really don't want these people NEAR her.

but to invade childhood yet further and teach sex ed to five-year-olds. Sickening.

I agree. These aren't middle schoolers, where one might reasonably debate whether they're ready for sex ed, these are kids. Babies.

Thank goodness my son is grown. No way could I put up with this crap.

So the answer to these children having sex early is not to parent them better, spend more time with them (children with parents and responsible adults with them at all time can't get pregnant), etc., but to invade childhood yet further and teach sex ed to five-year-olds. Sickening.

How do you MAKE people "parent them better"?

How do you MAKE people spend more time with their children?

How do you MAKE parents make sure even older children are supervised at all times? (The older children are often latchkey kids and/or are "supervising" the younger ones while Mom is at work or elsewhere.)

YOU might do all these things, and it would be really nice if ALL parents did, but I will tell you that working parents, single parents, working single parents, drug and alcohol addicted parents, etc. do not, and often cannot.

My latest pregnant student is living with an uncle who doesn't supervise her, because her single mother is in jail on drug charges. For the record, I think she's pregnant because she wanted to be, not because she didn't know how to prevent it.

What are you going to do about people like that? I'm not sure sex-ed in kindergarten is the answer either, but if you'll re-read the article you'll see that the school system is also somewhat at a loss and seems to be doing this as a "last-ditch" measure.