As the mother of a teen I found this op-ed piece from TomPaine.com to be extremely interesting...
Julie Sternberg is a senior staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union Reproductive Freedom Project.
Adolescence. We’ve all been there, and I would bet that most everyone remembers how awkward it can be. Hormones surge. Bodies transform. And suddenly there are a lot of questions about sex, pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases. Teens often cobble together answers to these new and embarrassing questions, yet the information they come up with is often uniformed, ill-advised, or downright wrong.
And so we, the adults, attempt to help teens navigate these tricky waters with instruction in school that provides truthful information, helping them make healthy choices and avoid the perils of unintended pregnancy and disease.
The problem is somewhere along the way this system was hijacked by an ideological agenda, leaving teens to suffer the consequences.
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Source: TomPaine.com - Lies We Teach Teenagers
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