{"id":36151,"date":"2013-05-09T05:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-09T10:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36151"},"modified":"2013-05-05T07:53:52","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T12:53:52","slug":"kids-are-apparently-complicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=36151","title":{"rendered":"Kids Are Apparently Complicated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park writes (and I&#8217;m adding emphasis to a particularly huge point):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just ran to the post office to mail a baby book to my daughter-in-law.\u00a0 Caller to Rush commenting on the Gosnell abortion trial says the problem is lack of meaningful sex education in the schools.\u00a0 We should be teaching kids more than abstinence-only because that doesn\u2019t 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.\u00a0 Two thoughts:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Things must have changed since we were kids, because in the mid-70\u2019s we knew about condoms and carried them faithfully, against the vain hope of ever needing one.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>We don\u2019t teach children about firearm safety in the schools<\/strong> <strong>because firearms have such powerful mystique<\/strong> in our society that giving children more information about them only leads to overwhelming desire to experiment, with disastrous consequences. <strong>The same isn\u2019t true of alcohol, drugs or sex, of course<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park writes (and I&#8217;m adding emphasis to a particularly huge point): Just ran to the post office to mail a baby book to my daughter-in-law.\u00a0 Caller to Rush commenting on the Gosnell abortion trial says the problem is lack of meaningful sex education in the schools.\u00a0 We should be teaching kids [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36152,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36151\/revisions\/36152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}