<<This is where the education part comes in.Tell me Brees why do you think education telling young people to avoid sex in this day and age will be more effective than education telling them about safe sex?>>
The education on safe sex initiatives were brought in to public education as a means of providing safety through knowledge. This is a great concept and very applicable when applied by mature adults willing to accept full responsibility for there actions. Many youth are actually this mature. Many are not. As I stated earlier children at this age are very inconsistent. Most are struggling to form a values base. They go back and forth between the traditional values of home, whatever those are, and what their peers are addressing. At times their behavior is self disciplined and at times it is referenced to the adult in charge of home. Once you educate them and turn over the "choices" of their sexual involvement you have both situations except that you have removed the adult in charge during the times the children are not identifying themselves as a self disciplined adult in charge of their choices.
So, whereas at one time we had a protective society in place for children that generally was stable through puberty, we now have a preparatory society that hands active social grenades over to children to play with.
The consequences are obvious. The fall out of teen parenting, abortion, communicable disease, etc. is obvious. If education and availability of condoms was effective, none of these things would be an issue. It would be merely a matter of values, religious preference or nonreligious preference.
It's fine for you to stand where ever you want. I see some people taking a stand to line up with some issues these days just to express there nonreligious preference. They will go with group thinking that may have at one time been a rebellion against oppressive tradition. The problem for me is, some of this group thought has itself formed long standing traditions that are now oppressive; as seen by the adherence to them in the face of ruinous and tragic consequences. You claim there is no problem. I hope you will take another look because there is, and it is huge.
We are in a unique age. I don't think telling anyone not to have sex is effective, and I don't think telling children to use safe techniques when having sex is an effective way to avoid the social tragedies previously mentioned. When you have drunken alcoholic parents who party harty, denying the negative effects of their behaviour throughout your youth and who hypocritically tell you not to do the drug of your teen peer group, you're likely not to listen. You are also likely to not listen to educational programs on the dangers of party drugs.
When the society is a sexually exploitative place to be, as in; The right toothpaste gives you teeth to drive men wild, and you witness this type of cultural push from infancy and at much more severe levels; how does it make sense to tell teens not to have sex? It doesn't. So I'm not disagreeing with your premise of telling them not to have sex, being a waste of time. It may be wasted hypocritical words in and of itself. I am suggesting you haven't considered all the possibilities. And I'm definitely disagreeing that education+condoms=problem solved.
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