If your teenage daughter gets pregnant, thank Robin Hayes

It almost seems like the big boys are taking him for granted now that he is a DCCC darling.

One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Anyone remember Representative Aldridge and his claim to fame?

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing
-Edmund Burke

teenagers don't have sex anymore. Remember "Just Say No"??
Oh wait, that was for drugs, wasn't it? Well it worked so well for drugs that ... they dusted it .... off .... and ...........

Nevermind. (ala Gilda Radner)

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I found this:

Critics dubbed him "Lysol Man" after they learned that a curriculum he endorsed advises youngsters to prevent disease by washing their genitals in diluted rubbing alcohol or Lysol after sex. Some doctors called the program dangerous and medically unsound.

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not only for your daughter's pregnancy but also for living in a wildly delusional world.

There are as many reasons that parents don't talk to their kids about sex as there are incompetent parents. Some don't do so for religious reasons, imagining that god will have "the talk" with their kids by magic. Others are embarrassed. Others are too lazy. Or too busy. Or too strung out on drugs. Or drunk. Or working three jobs. Or just plain ignorant.

The truth is, all parents are aren't like you. It would be wonderful if they were, but they're not.

It's a simple choice: better sex education or more teen pregnancies.

"If boiling people alive best served the interests of the American people, then it would neither be moral or immoral." Max Borders, Civitas Institute

my son about. But I'd like educators with scientific background and knowledge to teach him the science, the background, and let's face it, the latest in safe sex and birth control methods. I'm not enough of an egotist to think I know it all and can teach it all to my son, nor am I living in a fantasy world where teenagers run to adult mentors each and every time they think about having sex.

I'm horrified that my son, a senior in high school, didn't know that he could go to the health department and get condoms. I called to make sure that was right, told him, and told him to make sure that all of his friends knew.

I knew this stuff in high school because of a health educator named Mrs. Muir. (no ghost, just Mrs. Muir.) And I knew the mechanics of reproduction (internal, not just the insert tab a in slot b stuff) because of a co-ed class taught by Mr. Benfatti. Both of these teachers took their responsibilities seriously, made sure that we knew that the class was about science, not morality, and that our parents were the ones we should look to for advice.

My parents, and the parents of every other student in the class were aware of what was being taught in the class. A very different situation from what happens now - from grade school on, parents are not informed when children are given religious coloring books in school, despite their own family's religion, I was never informed that my son's high school was teaching "abstinence only" or even "abstinence plus" (what is that - everything except intercourse?) until my own son told me. It is not a policy I agree with. I believe that the statistics and "science" being taught in those classes are wrong.

Teenagers have sex. That's a fact. Better that they have the information than have some uniformed idea of "I'm just not going to do it until I get married." (I won't even go down the rabbit hole that says "What about the homosexual teens?" Someone needs to teach them about safe sex, too - but I bet that won't ever happen in NC's high schools.)

teach about something that is the parent’s privilege and duty?

Would you explain to her the need to make sure her boyfriend wears a condom (properly), and recommend that she also consider taking birth control?

Or would you tell her to be a good girl and wait until she's married?

I'm going to be outright harsh here, and say that the idea of a father (I noticed you used upper case for this designation, reminiscent of the way some of us were reared to refer to God) being his daughter's best friend is a little twisted. Maybe it worked for limited purposes (plot device) on "Paper Moon" and maybe it *really* takes place for a tiny number, a really, really tiny number of folks, but as a model for civic/educational (let alone real life) policy, it is, to borrow from Anglico's post, wildly delusional.

I want to point out that my own regard for my father is such that it wouldn't be entirely off the mark if I were to use upper case "F" for him, (or "Him"), too. I honestly do think he is one of the finest people ever to occupy this planet, and am proud to say so often. But "best friend?" No, that's horse-hockey.

I should also note that I don't believe in "God," and that my Dad has always served in that stead remarkably well.

But he isn't my "best friend," and never was, and much as I love him, never will be. Sex? My parents, both extremely bright, both very loving, were probably more willing than most in my generation to even broach the subject, but they were terrified of it, and it showed. To suggest, as your post does, that the concept we should rely upon is that across the spectrum, most citizens practice a parental "privilege and duty," is ridiculous.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing
-Edmund Burke

answer only the question that's asked.

So, that's what I did. And one evening - starting with a feminine hygiene product commercial on tv, when my son was in 4th grade, we went, question by question, right down the road to the hows and whys and wheres and whos. My advice to you is - before you answer any questions - ask one of your own: "What makes you ask that question?" Sometimes, "Where do I come from? " can be answered quite simply with "Pittsburgh". :)

didn't also have the habit of lighting up a cigarette after sex?

my dad said that in the 40s, men would visit brothels and then pour gasoline on themselves to prevent STDs.