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Obama Wants Kindergatners To Learn About Sex
This is news to me, probably because I don't follow Obama that closely, that Obama supports teaching sex-education to kindergartners. I find this disturbing. From ABC News online:
ABC News' Teddy Davis and Lindsey Ellerson Report: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told Planned Parenthood Tuesday that sex education for kindergartners, as long as it is "age-appropriate," is "the right thing to do.""I remember Alan Keyes . . . I remember him using this in his campaign against me," Obama said in reference to the conservative firebrand who ran against him for the U.S. Senate in 2004. Sex education for kindergartners had become an issue in his race against Keyes because of Obama's work on the issue as chairman of the health committee in the Illinois state Senate.
Who is it that will determine what is age appropriate? The parents of the children or some group of bureaucrats with an agenda to push? And why at such a young age? Shouldn't it be up to the parents on when and how sex-education is introduced to their children?
"Keep in mind: I honor and respect young people who choose to delay sexual activity," Obama continued. "I've got two daughters, and I want them to understand that sex is not something casual. That's something that we definitely want to communicate and should be part of any curriculum. But we also know that when the statistics tell us that nearly half of 15 to 19 year olds are engaging in sexual activity, that for us to leave them in ignorance is potentially consigning them to illness, pregnancy, poverty, and in some cases, death."
First off, the statistics that Obama is using are skewed to include legal adults, those who are 18 and older. Getting married straight out of high school may not be as prevalent as it once was, but there are still those who do.
There is also a significant difference between an 18 year old being sexually active versus a 15 year old, not just looking at age, but also maturity, knowledge and the ability to take on responsibilities in the event there is a pregnancy.
This is not to say that sex-education is not important, however it is not only important, but critical, that any and all materials used in these programs be approved by the parents, and at what age they are introduced.
For the record, when my daughter hits kindergarten in a couple of years, there better not be any sex-education programs being taught.
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