Planned Parenthood is calling October "National Family Sexuality Education Month"
On the surface this looks perfectly fine, and I do believe that parents should talk to their children about sex, but it's rather strange coming from a group calling for children to be able to get an abortion without telling their parents. This has almost as much irony as the poster contest, where a child had to have a parent's permission to submit a poster to their poster contest. So PP - it's fine for parents to talk to their children about sex, but not after the fact, when a new human life is involved?
Looking at stuff like this bothers me in another way: while the word family is used (rarely), it is never used in the context of the child considering sex. There is never any concern with telling the child to wait until they are married and having a permanent family - no, the emphasis is on maturity alone, a moving standard, and unreliable, for someone considering such activity. No role for a dad at all, who may be as casual an acquaintance as a one-night stand who never meets or contributes to the raising of his child, just as long as the mom is mature enough, based on some vague standard of maturity.
You can't seriously think any establishment authority will today suppose Dad either does or should have any authority in the home!
Posted by: Marcus Tullius Cicero, Hades at October 11, 2003 07:58 AM