http://knoxvilletalks.com/2008/03/28/dont-do-it-isnt-keeping-kids-from-doing-it/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:44:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://knoxvilletalks.com/2008/03/28/dont-do-it-isnt-keeping-kids-from-doing-it/#comment-1255 Missybw Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:35:38 +0000 http://knoxvilletalks.com/2008/03/28/dont-do-it-isnt-keeping-kids-from-doing-it/#comment-1255 I think that was the point I attempted to make unsuccessfully some time back. People just don't get it, do they? I would actually go so far as to say that if they came out with vaccines for STDs I would advocate those for all my nieces and nephew. No, this would not be an incentive for them to have sex. This is about protecting their health. Education is knowledge, knowledge is power. Why do we insist on taking that away from children? 18 is nothing but a number. If they can know about it then, why not before. Is it the fact that parents will have to get involved in something they aren't comfortable with if it's before 18? Don't misunderstand, Abstinence is great, and we talk that talk all the time, but there needs to be more than just that. Please understand, if you talked to your children about this subject, you would quickly learn that kids are getting information anyway. However, the sources are their peer group, the info isn't accurate and sometimes the facts are being distorted in order to fit another agenda that is being put forth by a boyfriend/girlfriend/hookup. Is that where you want your child to get information? From a third party with an agenda? Well, good luck with that. I think that was the point I attempted to make unsuccessfully some time back. People just don’t get it, do they? I would actually go so far as to say that if they came out with vaccines for STDs I would advocate those for all my nieces and nephew. No, this would not be an incentive for them to have sex. This is about protecting their health. Education is knowledge, knowledge is power. Why do we insist on taking that away from children? 18 is nothing but a number. If they can know about it then, why not before. Is it the fact that parents will have to get involved in something they aren’t comfortable with if it’s before 18? Don’t misunderstand, Abstinence is great, and we talk that talk all the time, but there needs to be more than just that. Please understand, if you talked to your children about this subject, you would quickly learn that kids are getting information anyway. However, the sources are their peer group, the info isn’t accurate and sometimes the facts are being distorted in order to fit another agenda that is being put forth by a boyfriend/girlfriend/hookup. Is that where you want your child to get information? From a third party with an agenda? Well, good luck with that.

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