Teens who wait to have sex, forgo drugs should be proud of choice

Detroit News ^ | 7/16/02 | Betty Deramus

[jimkress]

I could put what my parents taught me about sex in a teaspoon and still have room for sugar and cream. Their message was as blunt as a burned pot or sooty slice of toast: don't play with fire.

My parents' straight-ahead message worked because everyone around me -- my teachers, my ministers, my relatives and most of my friends -- repeated it. Nowadays, though, just telling kids to keep their dresses down and their zippers up isn't nearly enough.

[jimkress]

Abstinence is the right choice for all of us, especially those who are obsessed with their "right to chose".

[AppyPappy]

Abstinence is the right choice for all of us

< public education > Only for tobacco < /public education >

[OldBlondBabe]

This is good to hear. Good role models and productive ideas seem to be in short supply in Detroit. Most of these kids have no father at home.

[EdReform]

Bump

[PLK]

My parents' straight-ahead message worked because everyone around me -- my teachers, my ministers, my relatives and most of my friends -- repeated it.

Good post. This sentence especially hits home in the PLK household. We are Catholic and have been burdened with a liberal, educated-at-seminary-in-the-60's priest. My kids (as well as the entire parish at every mass) have been lectured ad nauseum on the evils of American capitalism and individual greed to the tune of about 500 times. EVERY single homily has social justice as the theme. According to this guy, Americans are single-handedly responsible for every misery of the 3rd world.

NOT ONCE have my children heard him speak to individual responsibility, chastity, and the sanctity of marriage! I have a feeling it's a common problem among Catholics.

[concerned about politics]

That's why we homeschool. It keeps our kids from the indoctrination of liberal lies.

[homeschool mama]

"By sanctioning sex before marriage, we will prevent fear and guilt."

Planned Parenthood News.........Summer 1953

[homeschool mama]

bingo

[weikel]

I don't use drugs but whats with this obsession among some freepers about having people get married( ie the guy loses half his stuff if the chick decides to leave for any reason regardless of marital conduct and ends up probably paying her alimony or child support to boot) before they have sex. If I have sex I rather not risk half my stuff sorry.

[Mike-o-Matic]

   "By sanctioning sex before marriage, we will prevent fear and guilt."
   Planned Parenthood News.........Summer 1953

That is truly frightening and offensive, isn't it!

[weikel]

Good advice would be to tell your son never to get married( at least without a prenup thats ironclad or unless the girl is much richer than he is). Women of course under the feminazi divorce laws and "family" courts have a good deal.

[Tancred]

It wasn't for lack of desire that I never went hog-wild with sex or drugs in my teen-age years; it was lack of opportunity (back then I never got mistaken for Brad Pitt, which does happen all the time today).

From my present vantage point of hard-earned, more mature judgement, I can only be thankful that I never got the chance to be the idiot I thought I wanted to be when I was a teenager.

[Guillermo]

Why do you subject your kids to that crap????

You are to blame just as much as your wackojob "Priest".

[FreeTally]

She already knew absolutely EVERYTHING she needed to know about drugs: "If it isn't prescribed by the doctor or given by mom or dad you DON'T take it. Ever."

A mentality like that is exactly why kids start using drugs.

[homeschool mama]

In 1953 people were astonished and mortified by this quote. How very tragic that today this quote is embraced.

[Guillermo]

Why would anyone want to "prevent guilt"?

Is guilt a bad thing?

[homeschool mama]

**A mentality like that is exactly why kids start using drugs. **

Why is that?

[homeschool mama]

Desensitization has eroded the guilt factor.

[Always Right]

Everybody may do it, but everyone is better off for waiting til they are responsible. If we could just get kids to wait even a couple of years before engaging in sex, millions of abortions could be prevented along with lot of STD's and other things.