[Wayne Luke]

Originally Posted by smacklan

While your argument for your position is painted very pretty Wayne, you are advocating that parents turn over their responsibilities in this area to the state as the state is better at teaching kids than parents. Typical liberal response and dead wrong, imho. I would also argue with your stats to support your position as being skewed...let's look at this issue from a milestone that gives the proper perspective:

Since the Supreme Court banned school prayer in 1963:

• the murder rate tripled;
• Violent crime went up 544%;
• Prior to 1963, divorce had been declining for 15 consecutive years. After 1963, the divorce rate more than doubled;
• unwed birth rates 10-14 years of age shot up 553% by 1983;
• Sexually transmitted disease rates (15-19 years of age range) shot up 226% by 1975;
• the percent of children living in fatherless households increased from 6% to 40%.

Succumbing to "the easy way out, ie; the government knows what's best" is the laziest and most detrimental thing anyone could ever do regardless of what subject we are talking about.

Actually I am not advocating anything. I am stating that the majority of parents fail to teach their children about sex and someone has to. If you're a parent and able to step up then good for you. If you can't teach them what they need to know then get the hell out of the way and let someone else do it. Doesn't matter if its sex, drugs, religion, morals, math or history. The only job you have as a parent is to keep your children safe and in today's world this includes a proper education on all counts.

Really can't put it any plainer than that. And I already admitted that statistics can be skewed to any view.. What is the source of your's so I can see the actual numbers to put your summary into perspective?