Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol, says abstinence only doesn’t work. “It’s unrealistic,” she says. Too bad she didn’t tell her Mom that before she imposed that type of sex education on all the kids in Alaska.
My kids went through this abstinence only education mandated by the Bush administration. It taught such things as condoms have a 15% failure rate. Never pointing out the 85% success rate. The result, according to federal studies is that kids waited a year longer to have sex and then had it without protection.
The moral is abstinence should be taught as an option, not as a commandment with “Thou shalt….”
The fact is that kids are curious about their own sexuality and each others. The first thing my two and a half year old son noticed about his little sister was that she was missing a part. (Or so he thought.)
Kids know that their parents drive and that they can’t until they get a certain age. It doesn’t matter how tall they are or bright; they can’t drive until they’re old enough. Maybe that’s a better way to approach sex education. It’s not that they can’t do it, but that they shouldn’t do it.
Way to go Bristol, after dropping out of highschool and having a child out of wedlock, you’ve found out what your mother of six still doesn’t know.
Abstinence is a commandment if you’re a believer. And it doesn’t matter what your age. God has reasons for what He says …