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Myth (but very PC)... especially if you're "selling" sex ed. In generations past there was NO sex ed... and the problem was small.
There was less teen sex 'back-then'.
All the same, there were the back-street abortions, the children 'born' to mothers with careless daughters, the women with bastards at her knees. Society was more fixed and controlling then.
It is now far more fluid and liberal; to expect people to be as sexually repressed as they were is unrealistic.
Likewise, as kids are now staying kids (as in at home with parents in education) far longer. Two hundred years ago marriage was younger, kids had to live adult lives sooner.
So, at an age when kids were living as adults 200 years ago, the modern mid-teen is in a strange twilight world. They have the same hormonal drives, but none of the channels of release that were available 200 hundred years ago.
Decent sex education gets them through this, by teaching them they can do it when they are ready, not when someone wnats them, and by making sure when they do have sex it will be safer sex.
Poor sex education leaves them lost in a set of contradictory messages, some from outside and others from within.
As for what I said being a myth; the USA has a poor level of sex education (including abstinance based systems). Countries with good levels of sex education have a higher age of first-sex and far lower rate of teen pregnancy than the US. If the difference in how the children are taught about sex (both in and out of the classrooms to be fair) is not what causes the difference what is it?
I mean, are you saying the notoriously sexually liberal Dutch (which actually IS a bit of a myth) are giving it out LESS than AMeircan teenagers... so you're saying American teens are NASTY? It's their fault and not the fault of their parents and educators? Or is there some other cause.
No they DO know and are taught...
Taught what? And HOW? Taught well? Taught in a way that is relevent to them? A way that they will retain?
No, it is the kids fault, you're right...
... and as for it being the parent's job, I agree. And it is the States responsibility to make sure that the children whose parents are NOT competent (and we all know how true this is) are brought up-to-speed in the lessons where the kids with decent parents are told stuff they already mostly know.
Parents are obviously failing in their role and the State is failing in its responsibilities to the children damaged by such incompetent parenting.
The kids are the last ones we should blame.
fleaman uk
I understand I might well feel as you if I had had your exposure.
