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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lane3 who wrote (19719)	7/30/2001 7:38:06 PM
From: one_less	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 82486

??? "One of the problems with plan A is the business of abstinence until marriage. That's waaayyyy too long to expect kid to wait. A more realistic target might make plan A more palatable." I thought plan A is waiting until marriage? Palatable: Lets take medicine as an analogy. It becomes more palatable by mixing it with sweet or interesting things to eat or by focusing on the health benefits. I suspect that the general population of people at risk of teen pregnancy are not fully engaged with interesting activity and don't consider the "benefits" of waiting for a few years to even be available to them. Part of this is, as JLA mentioned, the push to have Plan (B) immediately available. We push a low standard of expectation when we presume and even preach that waiting for marriage is waaay too...anything. When we expect children to lower them selves they always do. When we place high expectations on children and support them to be strong and patient in their endeavors, they often rise to the occasion and become strengthened by a challenge. I have never met a young man or woman who took a stand on abstinence until marriage who didn't speak of it as an honorable and good choice and who didn't seem happy about it. People who've stumbled in relationships yet struggle to regain confidence and learn from the past is also an honorable course. Mocking standards of decency because plan B is a "choice" is not.