Palin a grandma again...out-of-wedlock again...

PrintSmith wrote: Faulty premise forwarded once again by the regressives. The reality that her children have become pregnant is equally as indicative of the failure of the sex-education classes included in the public education world that teach birth control methods as they are of the inclusion of abstinence as the only sure way of avoiding an unintended pregnancy in actually preventing unintended pregnancies. Seems that nothing that wiser adults tell them is sufficient to overcome the "friends with benefits" mentality possessed by today's youths. Wonder where that mentality came from? Oh, that's right. It came from attempts by society to remove the stigma associated with giving it up before your wedding night along with the one that tells us it is normal for sex to be part of the expectations of dating in today's world after the first or second date.

PrintSmith wrote: I grew up in a pretty conservative family myself jmc. That doesn't mean that my decisions regarding my own life and behavior were in complete agreement with ones my parents would have agreed with in all instances. Not being a parent yourself, I can see how you might overlook the reality that children make decisions that conflict with the values and mores taught to them by their parents on a rather routine and regular basis, especially when those values and mores are held in contempt by society and their peers.

Science Chic wrote: I think that cat has been pretty much out of the bag for quite some time now. We can either keep lamenting how things have "gone downhill' in terms of people's morals, or we can start implementing programs that are more effective at getting people to make better choices. Abstinence only education has been shown time and again that it is not the most effective method of birth control - absitnence plus sex education, detailing all the risks, methods, statistics, and consequences is and, no, current education programs do not cover this well. They need much improvement, but have been hampered by people who keep trying to insert their morals in the education process. Just make it about the facts, give people some incentive or easier access to birth control, and help those who do get pregnant to keep their jobs/stay in school and give their baby up for adoption and unintended pregnancy rates and abortion rates would go down. I guarantee it.

PrintSmith wrote: Faulty premise forwarded once again by the regressives. The reality that her children have become pregnant is equally as indicative of the failure of the sex-education classes included in the public education world that teach birth control methods as they are of the inclusion of abstinence as the only sure way of avoiding an unintended pregnancy in actually preventing unintended pregnancies. Seems that nothing that wiser adults tell them is sufficient to overcome the "friends with benefits" mentality possessed by today's youths. Wonder where that mentality came from? Oh, that's right. It came from attempts by society to remove the stigma associated with giving it up before your wedding night along with the one that tells us it is normal for sex to be part of the expectations of dating in today's world after the first or second date.