Kids Are Apparently Complicated
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park writes (and I’m adding emphasis to a particularly huge point):
Just ran to the post office to mail a baby book to my daughter-in-law. Caller to Rush commenting on the Gosnell abortion trial says the problem is lack of meaningful sex education in the schools. We should be teaching kids more than abstinence-only because that doesn’t work. Kids need to be taught that unwanted pregnancy is a possible consequence of sex and how to use birth control to practice safe sex. Two thoughts:
Things must have changed since we were kids, because in the mid-70’s we knew about condoms and carried them faithfully, against the vain hope of ever needing one.
We don’t teach children about firearm safety in the schools because firearms have such powerful mystique in our society that giving children more information about them only leads to overwhelming desire to experiment, with disastrous consequences. The same isn’t true of alcohol, drugs or sex, of course.
Joe Doakes
May 9th, 2013 at 10:21 am
Because _some_ “kids are going to have sex” regardless of what we do, we have to accept and actually facilitate the stupidity of underage sex. This will magically reduce it’s incidence. According to some.