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Whatever Happened to Parenting?

Does it disturb anyone else that the government is raising our children more than we, the parents, are? I didn't agree with the concept of sex education when I went to school and being out has done nothing to change my mind.

The logic of distributing sex aids in our schools escapes me. While we have record numbers of children who can't spell, do math without the aid of calculators or computers, or read on their own grade level, we casually toss them condoms instead. It's so much easier to allow them access to casual sex than it is to teach them moral lessons, isn't it? Heaven forbid we ask them to take enough pride in themselves.

With our children, my husband and I cast ourselves in the part of parents; being their friends offered far too many opportunities for them to get in trouble up to their eyebrows. We set the boundaries, taught life and moral lessons and lived the lessons we taught. Our son grew up with the same sex drive as any other young man, but he also grew up knowing if he slept around, he and the young woman had more to lose than their virginity.

We taught our daughter the same lessons, but had to find different methods to explain everything. She was born with Down's Syndrome, a form of mental retardation. Even with a mind most might not consider highly intelligent, she knows when she's touched inappropriately and has no problem reprimanding the person. If our daughter can be taught to value herself, is it that difficult to teach children in normal IQ ranges the same thing?

Giving out condoms behind the parents' backs is not the way to solve all the problems loose morals present. It only encourages more of the same. Over the past few years, the government, from judges to legislators, have made it their business to remove the parents from parenting. Discipline is frowned on, young girls can get abortions without consulting mothers and fathers, and condoms are prizes given in school.

Has anyone noticed the rise in teacher/student relationships in middle and high school? With birth control offered so freely, is the increase coincidental? How about the growing number of reports regarding children having sex in classrooms? Could the ease with which condoms are passed out make breaking rules easier? The decision to ruin our children's lives is being handed out along with birth control.

Take away the condoms and put morality back in the schools. Set the boundaries and make the consequences for breaking the rules severe enough to make the children think. Give the responsibility for raising their children back to the parents. They did a pretty good job of it before. As usual, when the government steps in, logic steps out.

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