STATE LAWMAKERS MUST START ACTING, STOP STALLING …
By Amy Lazenby || According to a report released over a year ago, “A Sterling Opportunity: 25 Years After the Comprehensive Health Education Act” by the New Morning Foundation (a Columbia, S.C.-based health and sex education advocacy group), three out of four South Carolina school districts are failing to comply with a state law outlining how they should teach sex education in the Palmetto State. The report shows that young people are not getting the medically accurate information they need to make healthy decisions, teachers are not trained to teach this material in our schools, and school districts are not held accountable for complying with the law regarding a vital part of public education.
The fact that South Carolina’s youth are not receiving critical reproductive health information is evident in the high rates of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases in our state. The Palmetto State is ranked 12th highest in the nation in the rate of teen pregnancies and 3rd highest in the nation in gonorrhea and syphilis cases in teens. Clearly, not talking about sex isn’t working. South Carolina spends nearly $200 million per year on the repercussions of teen pregnancy, and it would make better financial sense to invest money up front in a comprehensive sex education program than to deal with the consequences of not doing so later.
In response to the report’s findings, TellThemSC (a non-partisan program of the New Morning Foundation that advocates for age-appropriate, medically accurate health education and increased access to high-quality reproductive health counseling and services) has been holding forums with medical experts and community leaders around the state and working with lawmakers for over a year to ensure that S.C.’s students get the facts they need.
An amendment to the Comprehensive Health Education Act (CHEA) that addresses South Carolina’s sex education problem recently stalled in the Education and Public Works committee for the second year in a row. Known as the Healthy Youth Amendment (HYA), the legislation would bring the CHEA up to date and includes provisions for ensuring that students are taught medically accurate information, better teacher training, and increased accountability. A budget proviso will also be introduced this legislative session in the Senate Finance Committee that sets money aside to provide grants for teachers to attain the proper certification needed to teach reproductive health education. The proviso calls for a $300,000 one-time, non-recurring
In the wake of the stalled amendment, TellThemSC led an advocacy campaign designed to show legislators that it is time to stop stalling on comprehensive sex education reform in S.C. Over two thousand concerned citizens from across the state called, emailed, and went to the State House this week to speak personally with their representatives about passing the Healthy Youth Amendment, according to Eme Crawford, Manager of Social Media and Online Mobilization for the grassroots group.
Comprehensive sex education programs teach young people to make informed, healthy decisions about abstinence, contraception, and disease prevention. Studies show that the types of programs that the HYA would support are more likely to help youth delay the onset of sexual activity, remain healthy, and avoid negative sexual health outcomes. S.C. lawmakers should stop stalling and make certain that students in the Palmetto State receive instruction that is vital to their health and well-being. By not ensuring that medically accurate information reaches our young people, we are helping to ensure that they will engage in potentially dangerous behavior due to a lack of knowledge about reproductive health.
Opponents of sex education programs argue that this subject matter should not be within the purview of the public school system and is best taught at home. It is true that healthy families are those in which parents and children talk openly and honestly about important life issues, including sex, but so many young people simply do not receive adequate or accurate reproductive health information in their homes. These youth are at greatest risk for unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. Thus, our schools must play a role in disseminating the information our children need to make healthy decisions regarding their sexual health.
Statistics show frank talk about reproduction, personal responsibility, pregnancy prevention, and family planning is the best way to reduce unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease rates. Without such comprehensive reproductive health instruction in our schools, young people in South Carolina simply will not be exposed to the medically accurate sexual health information they need to lower the rates of teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases in our state. Simply put, South Carolina has a sex ed problem, and it is long past time to address it.
Amy Lazenby is the Associate Opinion Editor for FITSNews. Contact her at amy@fitsnews.com and follow her on Twitter @Mrs_Laz.
136 comments
OK, let’s be clear… a penis goes into a vagina, and if some white goo is ejected while in the vagina, a pregnancy may result. There you go, that’s Sex Ed. … just think of the millions I’ve saved the taxpayers by describing a process which every 10 year old already knows. Teaching Sex Ed will never stop damaging and perverse sexual practices, and if fact, the real goal of Sex Ed is but to glorify such perverted sexual practices on the backs of the majority’s dime.
Sex Education: Parents explain it to their Children…..done!
Problem is that many parents never discuss any of it with there kids.
I need to qualify my comment to add that some parents probably don’t really know enough about it themselves (not just the act itself) to discuss it with their children.
A very pious woman recently told me that her girls were taught not to have sex before marriage and therefore, they didn’t need to teach about sex because they were raising their kids right….. I said…. Okayyyyyyyyyyyy then. Head in sand.
What do you care if someone doesn’t want their kids to learn about sex?
She is proud to say “I’m raising my kids right by teaching them all about sex.”
And? Why is it any of your business what someone else teaches their kids?
I don’t have the choice not to support their babies though social programs. It’s bad parenting not to teach kids about sex, among other things. Ever talked with a family of a pregnant 10 year old?
That’s their business. You seem just like a nosy person who gets in everyone else’s business to then turn around and condescends about them behind their backs to make yourself feel better about your own lot in life.
I volunteer to help kids. Many situations could be avoided with just a little education. I care about kids, I care about how they turn out. If people do not get involved and help I guess that’s okay with you. I wasn’t being condescending, I was giving a real life situation. But you, in your ignorance can just keep on in your on little conservative, away from reality life.
You volunteer likely because you’re a busy body who thinks they know better than everyone else. Mind your business.
Also, you weren’t being condescending? “Okayyyyyyyyyyyy then. Head in sand.” That’s not condescending to you?
It becomes my business when I, as a tax paying adult, pick up the tab because of poor parenting.
So you’re not in favor of cancelling government aid so you don’t have to pay for their mistakes, you’d rather just stick your nose in their life. Got it.
Condescending asshat.
lol…it’s annoying when someone kinda pins you down eh?
I’m not pinned by the likes of you or him/her.
I don’t care what she teachers her kid. My philosophy doesn’t say, “I am going to jam my morals down your throat.”
I think everyone should mind their own damn business and stop using government institutions to try to indoctrinate other people’s kids. But hey, that’s what public education is all about, so good luck with any of that happening.
In one breath you want to do away with SNAP and other aide programs. In another breath you don’t want kids taught about reproduction and where babies come from. A little education would go a long way in accomplishing some of those goals. But, I guess you don’t care about that either.
The world without education is a world of dumbasses.
Neither of my kids had an unwanted pregnancy. So, what is your DA point?
So 100% of parents who don’t teach kids about sex exactly like you did and when you did have children with unwanted pregnancies?
Not familiar with cause and effect, then?
Let Mr. Helper explain it.
Dumbass doesn’t want his girls to learn about sex.
Dumbass finds out one of his girls is pregnant because a boy told her it was “first base” and didn’t use a condom
Dumbass insists his daughter have the baby
Dumbass’ daughter runs away and commits suicide by jumping the median in her daddy’s car.
Well-adjusted family dies in the fire.
Happens every day, just like that.
Pretty much.
Why is that my business?
I’m the guy in the car with the well adjusted family that died in the fire.
Unless there’s a direct correlation between driving dangerously and teaching kids about sex, I believe the scenario you outlined is unlikely.
unwanted pregnancy has side effects that aren’t good for anyone. That’s just one possible scenario. The rest are exercises for the non-sociopath.
In summary, you have no real clue what a parent not teaching their kid about sex does that actually harms you, so you just vaguely reference societal harm so you can stick your nose in other peoples’ businesses. You don’t see me calling DSS because SCBlueWoman is roleplaying sexual acts with her children so the first time the experience it isn’t with a stranger. Mind your business.
In summary, information is best. Teaching people is the best method we have found so far to keep the population informed.
Then there was the woman who preferred having sex in the back seat of her car. But she wants her husband to drive!
When I drink alone, I prefer to be by myself!
Sex education from Grandma in 1920—A man was made to ask and a woman was made to say “NO”.
How did she get to be “Grandma?” rape?
Problem is that many parents never discuss any of it with there kids.
That’s pretty much their right.
By waiving the public school-offered sex ed, the responsibility falls upon the parent, but the parent should have that right. Sex education crosses a number of boundaries (cultural, religious, parental) that put it in a grey area. There is no way a school would be able to accommodate all of those. Therefore, the simple solution is to offer what is in the best interest of public health and let parents choose whether it is adequate or if they’d rather use some other method of teaching this stuff to their kids.
That might mean that lots of kids are taught inadequately, but that’s unavoidable. It could also mean that parents take it into their own hands and actually make sure their kids aren’t afraid or ashamed to come to them regarding sex, which I think a lot of parents would prefer.
If we let parents send their kids to private school, or even home school them, there’s no reason we can’t treat sex ed the same.
I agree that it is the parent’s right. I still think that if they are unwilling or unable to teach their kids about reproduction that society will pay for it in the end. I know many parents who do a good job on educating and I know parents that avoid it and don’t want their kids to know so they are being educated on the playground and in many instances being exploited. Just don’t bitch about social programs that are in place to feed those accidental kids.
I think teachers can do a much better job, screw the parents.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6vjLoLtmig
and if fact, the real goal of Sex Ed is but to glorify such perverted sexual practices on the backs of the majority’s dime.
The primary goal of sex ed in a public institution is to improve public health, more than anything. The point of teaching kids about condoms and birth control isn’t to entice them to have sex, it is to prevent them from getting impregnated or contracting a disease if and when they do.
This is exactly why abstinence-only education does not tend to work. It doesn’t matter if you tell them “if you do it, use this” or “don’t do it,” if they want to do it, well, guess what? They’re going to do it.
http://news.uga.edu/releases/article/abstinence-only-education-does-not-lead-to-abstinent-behavior/
That being said, it should be up to the parent whether their kid should receive this education in the public school or not. Even so, the public education should still be available to others, and it should still focus on public health, nothing more.
You missed a lot of stuff… pre cum, sex standing up, Plan B, the Rhythm method, how long the baby butter lasts, sex during the menstrual cycle, use of condoms, birth control pills, vaginal foam, diaphragms, penis doesn’t have to enter the vagina…
No way in hell you’d be approved as a sex ed teacher.
You’ve probably never actually had sex…. with anyone else.
Don’t forget a good ole cum-shot to the face! That’s the best deterrent to pregnancy!
Without sex ed, you won’t know not to let it dribble off the chin.
SCBlueWoman was sure to roleplay this scenario with her children.
I think you’re making your point of view crystal clear. You should try deception if you want to persuade the mentally healthy to it.
This post is as clear as mud.
Here’s mud in your eye.
I want to thank you for making my case even better… because none of the crap you’ve discussed above is going to stop damaging and perverse sexual behavior/practices… I guarantee the stuff you cite is taught all throughout the inner city public schools and we see the shining successes there, right?! Tell you what a$$hole, why don’t you have the schools teach your kids this crap, I’ll instead have my (imaginary since I’ve never had sex with anyone) kids opt out, My guess?: my instilling of traditional sexual values is going to produce a better/healthier child sexually than your well learned, though sexually ambiguous pedophilic prone spawn.
because none of the crap you’ve discussed above is going to stop damaging and perverse sexual behavior/practices
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it will decrease the occurrences of unwanted pregnancies.
Yeah, again, tell that to the folks in the inner cities with their baby daddies, in school nurseries and maternal care. They’re the audience that most seriously buys into this public school Leftist BS initiative and we see how well it’s working there, right?!.. in other words, you are a straight up dumba$$.
The cure for dumbass is education. Oh wait, you’re “agin” education.
My guess?: my instilling of traditional sexual values is going to produce a better/healthier child sexually than your well learned, though sexually ambiguous pedophilic prone spawn.
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Well, at least you’re well adjusted.
Dear Barbarossa
This is the 21st Century – the phrase should read – ….a vagina engulfs a penis,
you’re welcome
That’s why so many women are getting nailed younger in SC, gotta get em’ while they’re tight.
I wish I had been taught sex education by one of those hot, naughty teachers.
Teacher forgot to bring the banana to put the condom on. Volunteers?
Hopefully she’ll do that trick where she puts it on with her mouth!
JJ, don’t ya’ love it when she does that…
A six grader came home and told his mother that the teacher talked to the Sex Ed class about oral sex. The kid were so upset and asked her if it was true and apparently this modern mom said yes. The kid swore off sex for life.
Oral sex is under-rated.
The rug muncher speaks!
oh, I’m sure you’ve never munched! Yeah, right!
JJ, did you ever have those thoughts about the school nurse?
I don’t recall ever having a cute school nurse at my school, but if I did I would go in and ask for a complete physical.
What the liberals are really P!$$#d about; their ABORTION POPAGANDA is not in the classroom, as much as they’d like…..
The New Morning Foundation’s TellThemSC is NON-PARTISIAN????…Are you STUPID, or do you bank on us being ignorant???….LMAO…
Go look at their links to YouTube videos, and who does them, and what I the message…These people HATE Conservatives, and attack them for trying to teach responsibility to children..
Since you are a resident Of Georgia, please tell what happens in YOUR state.
We change the mother’s birthdate on her drivers license so they don’t count as teenage pregnancies.
“By not ensuring that medically accurate information reaches our young people, we are helping to ensure that they will engage in potentially dangerous behavior due to a lack of knowledge about reproductive health.”
1) — What about this epidemic of female teachers having sex with male students 12 – 18 years old? What are they teaching?
2) — This may sound harsh, I’m only throwing this out for discussion, but if this must be taught in schools then at year-end give the students an extremely comprehensive written exam. If they fail, then the student must submit to either a tubal ligation or a vasectomy, as appropriate.
Shifty, I can’t help but wish I had suffered due to the epidemic of female teachers having sex will male students. I swear I would have kept it a secret between she and I. I was at my sons school a few weeks ago talking with one of his teachers. For the entire 30 minutes I spent talking with her I was fantasizing about the things I would like to do with her! She was definitely a hot teacher. Damn, I need to stop typing this stuff at work, one day I’m going to get in trouble.
Somebody said it…..
I used to go out every night and try and get laid, and fail, and I’d call that sexual frustration. Now I go out every night and try and get laid and fail, but I can call it a “healthy lifestyle.”
A healthy lifestyle sucks.
What about the epidemic of male teachers having sex with female students? What are they teaching. It’s wrong no matter which sex is doing it. It’s child abuse.
Just teach the white people about sex… we’ll outnumber the sumbitches!
That reminds me of this oldie but goodie:
Why do black people always have sex on their minds?
Answer:
You would too if you had pubic hair on your head.
How many miles of road can you pave with 5 black guys?
Depends on how thin you slice them.
Ha!
What do you call a pair of black babies in a shoe box?
Answer:
A pair of loafers
A Chinese man enters a bar to find a Black bartender. He says, “Hey nigger, give me a jigger.”
The Bartender responds, “That’s terrible! How would you like it if I said something like that to you? In fact, let’s just switch places. You get behind the bar and I’ll come in as a customer.”
The Chinese man agrees and gets behind the bar. The Black man goes outside.
Upon reentering, he says, “Hey Chink, give me a drink.”
To which the Chinese man answers, “Sorry, we don’t serve niggers here.”
A man walked into a bar and sat down. There didn’t seem to be a bartender. After a few moments, from the door at the
back of the bar, a horse came out. Tying an apron around its waist, the horse asked the man if he wanted a drink. The man stared. The horse asked, “Why are you staring? Didn’t you ever see a horse before?”
The man answered, “Well, I didn’t think the cow would sell
the place!”
How do you get back at a fatass white racist?
Encourage him to vote Republican.
How do you empty a wagonload of Republican babies?
With a pitchfork.
Will, please find nicer looking women to write for FITS. This one is not. And please send her back to wherever she came. Georgia is it?
She’s not unattractive in the least.
I like this photo of her so much I’m using it on my XP desktop. Not only is she attractive but the color composition is great. Her blouse top sort of coming off of her left shoulder is also nice….
“I like this photo of her so much I’m using it on my XP desktop.”
Yea, that’s normal.
Yep! I’m definitely normal…..
“I like this photo of her so much I’m using it on my XP desktop.”
Yea, that’s normal.
Support for Windows XP will be discontinued in two weeks. You need to upgrade your computer soon.
I’ve already purchased a HP Pavilion Windows 8 and have been moving important stuff over to it. The XP (loyal, steady, never stumbling ol’ hoss’) has been taken off of the internet and will be used for whatever……..
Yeah, I hate to see the old girl be deprecated. I have a couple of laptops I have XP running on for specialized software that won’t run correctly on Windows 7 or Vista. I despise Windows 8, but it’s usable with ClassicShell. Vista was a joke too, so I’m running everything that I use everyday on Win 7 or Ubuntu. A have a couple of clients I do work for that we are migrating from XP to Ubuntu Linux because they can’t afford new hardware.
No need to quit using XP just because MS stops support.
I can fire up my trusty Micron 486 running Windows 3.5 right now. Of course, I mostly just run IBM PC-DOS.
True, I just worry about “most people” being on the internet with un-patched operating systems. I do a fair amount of IT support work and you would be shocked at the state of some peoples systems. They have so much malware running it’s truly surprising they boot and if you want to get really paranoid run Wireshark and watch all the junk phoning home. I have one client I basically made go to a Mac because I got so tired of going to her house every other day. No matter how well I secured her system her kids would reinfect it with in a week. With all that being said, I still have an XP system that will remain on the net, I use it as a media center PC hooked up to the TV in the living room, it works well and I don’t feel like re-configuring it so it’s staying put. Then again I know how to not get infected. I have an old 386-DX-40Mhz with DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.11 that I use for programming radios now. It’s been running fine since 1993 and I’m sure it will continue to for some time. The only two things I’ve replaced in it are the power supply twice and I upgraded the 120mb harddrive to a 420mb drive sometime around 1995 or 1996.
Dude…you need to get out more. I’ll PayPal you $150 bucks so you can run over to Backpage.com for a few minutes…
Mike, thanks for the offer but I don’t know what “backpage’ is — it might be a trap! Anyway, I usually change the view when I complete a major project. Her rotation is coming up next week.
Just tryin’ to help, bro…
Thanks…. I could use the name Mike Mayhem as a hard-boiled PI in one of my short stories.
I like it. Just make him a little less accident-prone than the Mayhem guy and he’ll be fine. Tough bastard, though…
It’s interesting that those ads are so popular. I’ve got a friend who stops whatever he’s doing to watch them, even though he’s seen them about 100 times each. Monk had his problems of a different kind. Perhaps Mike “Mayhem” Beach would be a good name – it sounds tough. Just searched for the surname “Mayhem” — found 7 folks each living in a different state. I’ll bet they get a lot of jokes.
If you just have to Paypal someone $150 to use on Backpage…..TBG seems the type those ‘ladies’ are seeking………
TBG is a clean ‘discrete’ gentleman with good ‘hijean’. TBG ain’t no pimp, thug or african-American (sorry). TBG won’t text or use blocked numbers. TBG is over 35.
Ha! Not that it sounds like you know of what I speak…
Why does everyone seem to freak out about this particular aspect of biology?
My friends kept their heads in the sand and did not discuss sex education and contraception with their daughter. After she became pregnant at age 18, her parents were distraught and in disbelief. I guess it was their right to keep her in the dark, but it sure is a shame. I would never say this to them, but I think they failed their little girl big time.
I remember watching a news show some years ago in which it discussed this very topic. The show included smart father telling his teenage daughters that “when a man’s penis gets hard he will tell you anything you want to hear to get you in bed.” The daughters appeared very embarrassed to have their father say that to them. I don’t have any daughters, but if I did I would tell them the same thing.
I role played with my kids so that the first time they heard some things that it wouldn’t be from someone trying to get in their pants. It’s important.
That sounds so creepy.
You’re pretty creepy, but I’ve been refraining from saying so.
Your selfless restraint and sense of decorum are greatly appreciated by your fellow FITSNEWS commenters.
My eyes watered up there for a second… *snif*
lol, best comment today!
My favorite Liberal is Woody Allen. Not only did he teach his daughter about sex, how showed her how to do it and then married her.
Not related to the subject matter her, but— one of Allen’s short stories is “The Whores of Mensa” which I may encourage him to expand into a film. It can be found on the internet.
Just a wild guess here, but I’m betting that at age 18, she knew babies didn’t come from a stork.
It’s only certain counties where SC’s numbers are Third-World. STDs, teen-age pregnancy and single-parent homes are rampant in the most-ignorant portions of the state.
Would you, and TellThem, agree to focus only on the backward counties of the state, using money already available, but diverted and placed in the teaching to the most failing, helpless and poor???
That would be compassionate and caring…right???..and you cannot serve them any worse than you already do…
God I hate to say something you would agree with but – it’s pretty simple. If your dumb and poor and live in nowheresville rural SC – the more of those kids you can pop out the bigger the number on the EBT card. More kids is more WIC. More WIC is more money. And the medical costs can be picked up by Medicaid, and if you split the cash with Mama – she’ll help watch the kids. So get started early – the early bird gets the worm.
Sad but true, folks. Asks any ER doc, social worker, cop, EMT/Paramedic, teacher, etc. There’s a world out there that the mainstream and upper end of the socioeconomic rungs know little or nothing about.
Parking in the driveway after their first date, Roger leaned over and gave Linda a passionate kiss. When she responded warmly, he unzipped his fly and pulled her hand to his penis. Furious, Linda opened the door and jumped out of the car.
“I’ve got just two words for you,” she screamed. “DROP DEAD!”
“And I’ve got just two words for you,” Roger screamed, “LET GO!”
hmmmm – wondering how many kids are using the comments on this topic for their homework tonight…..
haha. one can certainly hope.
The teacher at my former high school who taught sex ed was a dedicated Christian lady. On the days that she taught those classes, she dressed up in a nice outfit. She spoke knowledgeably to her students, gave them accurate information and certainly didn’t “glorify” any aspects of sex as some of the stupid and vile comments below suggest. She saw first-hand the need for her students to be informed so they could make good choices and she answered their questions without embarrassment. She was a highly successful girls’ basketball coach, nationally recognized, in the Pee Dee area and one of the most popular and respected teachers on the faculty. I’m sure she helped many students in her classes and made a lasting impression on some of them. No, most parents do NOT give their children good information about sex and, frankly, I’m not sure kids want to hear about sex from their parents. It’s much less stressful to get information from a neutral and non-judgmental source. SC should do a much better job than it’s presently doing.
Great article and I fully stand behind it.
The problem is the ghost in the machine with SC politics. It seems like everyone is in agreement that proper sex ed in public schools (hell…all schools) is sensible. Then magically, out of nowhere, mysterious religious forces align and conspire to derail attempts at providing accurate information in lieu of the party line “Abstinence Only”…as if somehow teens will stop doin’ it.
Tight ass nasty bitches always get their way.
http://www.therichest.com/rich-list/poorest-list/the-10-least-sexually-active-countries/10/
Interesting, but those type of surveys don’t take into account that having sex involves many variables.
I want to volunteer for the detailed facet-by-facet analysis for Japan!
I’d like to go back to Hong Kong.
You a navy brat?
Army brat – but I did four years in the Navy
I used to long for Japan.. until I realized that the women there aren’t as pretty as the Japanese models. The models I had seen were taller, and seem to have French or other genetic enhancing ingredients. I had no idea that Japanese women pretty much all look the same: short, girlish – unremarkable. Not a nation of Lisa Liu.
Later still, I hooked up with a Vietnamese – and experienced the storied mercenary nature of Asian women first hand. Of course, it’s an unfair stereotype, and I have the scars to prove it. :)
There are some beauties from a union between an American and a Japanese. This, I’ve heard, is the same for a Frenchman and a Vietnamese.
We have a mission!
time for this one again—-
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A GI went into a Vietnamese whore house, for the first time, and asked the madam, “Ummm, is it true that oriental girls’ vaginas are horizontal?” The madam looks at him curiously and asks him in reply, “Why? You play harmonica?”
Feb 19 2014 ————- from news article
I think you know where we’re going with this. A woman called the police when she heard screaming coming from a neighbor’s house in Maine. But when the police arrived, they discovered the sound was coming from one extremely happy male pig that had just been put inside a pen with five sows in heat. What I was saying about the toe-curling sex? I guess I was right.
And it just goes to show, sometimes the line between ecstasy and agony can be very thin indeed. I wonder if the pig wasn’t also a bit tortured over which sow to mate with first. The hottie with the brown speckles running down her back? The vixen with gray bristles? Or the shy gal with the pink ears batting her long lashes? Well, no hurry. There’s time for all the ladieeeeez.
Interesting and clever – just go to the video in the article “Do It For Denmark”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2590585/Do-Denmark-Hilarious-travel-video-calls-couples-sex-boost-countrys-population.html
Having more sex in Denmark – you’d think they were up to their neck in pussy.
SC has a Lazenby problem, which was not solved despite her move to the likewise great state of Georgia… Libertarians only want the government intrusions of which they approve.
Couple of quick points first- the teen pregnancy rate in SC sucks to be sure, but has dropped 40% since the early 90’s (and is about as low as it’s ever been in the state). The rate’s dropped for the last four years, and we should keep in mind that almost 3/4 of the “teen births” are to 18 and 19 year-old adults, and about 1/4 of those births are to teens who’ve already had at least one child. These aren’t sex-ed failures…
These programs are no biggie. Let the SC Department of Education push their version of “family planning” on your kids if you like, I respect your right to choose that route. The thought of some mouth-breathing teacher of dubious qualification explaining the birds and bees to my kids is reason 57 we opt for private school. Let the state run their sex-ed game, as long as “healthy families” are able to opt out of the crap if they like (an option in many current programs). I’ll handle that ongoing conversation with my kids, thanks. It’s social naivete to believe that the teen pregnancy problem is primarily an education issue; it’s a social and demographic problem with an education nexus.
Some while back I was being given an overview by DSS on two programs which were aimed primarily at young blacks. The first was counseling which was a success with the females and many (I can’t remember the number) of tubal ligations, but the male counseling was a failure and there were only a few vasectomies. The program management told me that the females who participated wanted to be able to focus on their education and employment. The lack of participation by the males was mainly that they just couldn’t be bothered.
Interesting that the advocacy group does not indicate what, if anything, it wants kids to be told about abortion. While they deliberately obscure this information, some clues can be gleaned from its page about personhood bills, which clearly crosses over from providing “medically accurate” information into propagandizing.
Their website suggests there is no medical uncertainty about their assertion that pregnancy begins with implantation. According to a 2011 survey by the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, however, well over half (57%) of U.S. gynecologists believe that pregnancy begins at conception, not implantation. Only 28% ascribe to the implantation definition. I am all for “medically accurate” information, but if these are the types of “facts” that TellThemSC wants to teach our children then we might be better off listening to the abstinence only crowd.
http://www.ajog.org/article/S0002-9378(11)02223-X/abstract
Sweet Lord, she can make screwing boring.
“Comprehensive sex education programs teach young people to make informed, healthy decisions about abstinence, contraception, and disease prevention.”
Girl, learn to write, Use Anglo-Saxon words in chunky sentences.
First of all, Lazenby uses misdirection in not reporting this. And the gullible took the bait.
NEXT TUESDAY, the Planned Parenthood/SIECUS Network (New Morning Foundation, Tell Them SC, Advocates for Youth, SC Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, ACLU and many others) are pushing the SC House Education Committee to pass H-3435, their so-called Healthy Youth Amendment.
That being said, Lazenby is carrying water for the worst possible element of our free society. Nothing she writes is worthy of our consideration. Which brings up Fits. Who has editorial control over what is posted on his website? Him alone, his wife? Look you two, take a hike Amy, look you two, you are on the cusp of throwing away a great opportunity. There are more numbers behind what is proper, truthful, and righteous than any generational effort spending millions of dollars to hoodwink these numbers away from their natural constitutions. You two can start by not publishing these bull shit propaganda pieces. Avoid those people. Inside every educated free thinker is a human being yearning to shake off all of that “learning”. Make your decisions now in 2014. You can run a website and hope piecemeal consulting work comes along while hanging with malcontents like Lazenby and Libertarians or run a web site and consult to Republican candidate campaigns all over the nation. Will has the talent to be hired as a campaign consultant in races all over to get vetted Republicans elected to vanquish the likes of Lazenby and her ilk. He can get the bank he is capable of earning if he redirects his efforts to right the wrongs in America by getting Republicans elected. If not, he will continue to shovel the shit for people contrary to his natural constitution.