(April 29, 2014 at 11:41 pm)Lek Wrote: It would probably happen less often, but it would still happen. I think we need to teach our kids the seriousness of the sexual act. That's not to tell them it's not pleasurable or fun, but to teach them the damage that can be done to children's lives because the parents weren't committed to loving and caring for a child that might result.
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That's the attitude I'm referring to. It really strenthens my opinion that sex belongs only in marriage.
You can pretend like reality doesn't exist if you like. Teaching abstinence objectively does not work. Humans are going to have sex, that is objectively true. This is especially true for adolescents. Telling them it's super serial and is only for marriage is a ridiculous plan for preventing unwanted pregnancies. Teach them about it, reinforce respect for it, and encourage that when they're ready, they do it responsibly, and most importantly, maintain open dialogue about it.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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