Sex Education... for 7yr olds... and 'mini-condoms'

[Mercurial]

What planet are you living on? Watersheds?! The majority of people simply ignore watersheds, especially on video games. As for the fact that (i) the internet is saturated with porn and (ii) that the overwhelming number of children have access to the internet (children are clever, are more than capable of disabling 'net nanny', or using their pocket money to go to a net cafe -so really any child can potentially circumvent what few restrictions there actually are) --are you suggesting that even the basic facts are somehow being hyped? You're a classic case of selfish denial.

I’m sorry, I think the point you were trying to make got lost in the midst of that rather fantastic Helen Lovejoy impersonation.

[SirHenryGrattan]

The irony here is that many who promote sex ed, usually the value free version, think they are protecting the young, there is enough evidence now to say they are doing the very opposite.

The other irony is that most of the child care "experts" who promote sex ed don't have kids of their own.

[SirHenryGrattan]

I've seen a documentary which placed a family in a 70's home and there was a point where the inconvenience of not having freezers and such made a housewifes job almost intolerable, while on the other side there did appear to be a balance where the family had a TV a stereo and many of the appliances we have today, but they still enjoyed these things as a family. I believe the personal computer and mobile phones to have been the major turning point, isolating specific members of a family. I

What you don't have you don't miss. How did they ever survive in the 70s without mobiles?

[nozzferrahhtoo]

There is a direct relationship between sex education and pregnancy. The more sex ed, the more pregnancies. That's been the experience in the UK.

Can you link to studies, statistics and so on to support this claim? It is a strong claim. A study being of course something that A) Shows such figures and B) shows the causal link between the two. Noting of course that:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle4795056.ece

Judged by its results – not a bad way of judging – sex education has been an utter failure.

.... news paper articles are not studies, despite the user pointlessly citing the same article twice in successive posts while somehow getting the link wrong the second time.

Quite the opposite, newspapers tend to willfully misrepresent studies in order to get the result they want. This article above is innocent of this however as it does not even bother citing relevant studies, figures or sources at all. Nor does it even attempt to establish causal links.