(July 28, 2014 at 12:47 am)StealthySkeptic Wrote: A strong nuclear family? Look, the whole idea of nuclear family is but one of many family models that can work. And I think the thing is that if you try to force teens to not have sex, they'll have it anyway but they won't know what the fuck they're doing. Hopefully as a parent you would raise them with a good head on their shoulders to at the very least wait until they're 18 and know how to be safe.Your idea about teens is wrong. In Asia, most teens do not have sex, and they turn out fine. The idea that it's inevitable is contingent on the attitudes of a society which is geared toward mating rituals that worked when a young man would start apprentice work at the ripe old age of about 17.
You can say that any system can work, but then you have to look at the shitstorm that is US teen pregnancy and disease rates, and see that liberty in teenage years works for some but fails on the level of society.
