03-06-2008, 12:22 AM
I'm not really sure what can be done to lower the occurrence of these kinds of things, but I can agree that regulation and general education isn't the answer.
I look at it kind of like how sex ed was for me when I was going through high school. When my parents were going through sex ed in high school, they were preaching abstinence - no sex, ever, until you're married. When I was going through it, it was half safe-sex-only and half abstinence-only. Now it's just safe-sex-only, and it still doesn't do a damn thing - teen pregnancy is still higher here than most everywhere else in the developed world. You can lead a horse to water, I guess.
I remember flipping through an article in a magazine (probably Time or Newsweek) that was listing some of the things other countries do better than we do. One of them was sex ed, and I believe it was the Dutch (maybe the Danes) who actually taught their kids something useful - how to use a condom, how to get them, how to avoid catching and transmitting STDs, and so forth. Seems Americans are far behind in that regard:P
I look at it kind of like how sex ed was for me when I was going through high school. When my parents were going through sex ed in high school, they were preaching abstinence - no sex, ever, until you're married. When I was going through it, it was half safe-sex-only and half abstinence-only. Now it's just safe-sex-only, and it still doesn't do a damn thing - teen pregnancy is still higher here than most everywhere else in the developed world. You can lead a horse to water, I guess.
I remember flipping through an article in a magazine (probably Time or Newsweek) that was listing some of the things other countries do better than we do. One of them was sex ed, and I believe it was the Dutch (maybe the Danes) who actually taught their kids something useful - how to use a condom, how to get them, how to avoid catching and transmitting STDs, and so forth. Seems Americans are far behind in that regard:P
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