about Sexual Education...

One of the many problems in the debate over abortion is the fact people get pregnant in the first place. many talk about birth control, but what of personal responsibility and understanding of sex, pregnancy, and child birth in general? What about the sexual education taught to our children in school, or the lack thereof?

Many beleive that teaching children abstiance is the way, the only way, and everything else is playing dice with chemicals. Others say that properly educated children informed for not only abstianace, but also personal responsibility, contriceptives, and understanding of the remifications of sexual behavior would provide a better well rounded understanding and ability to choose their own sexual path.

what do you think about how children should be taught? at what age? in the school or in the home? and what should sex be taught as? As a negative -something to steer clear of and avoided till 'grown up'- or a positive -something wonderful, natural, but not without its ups, downs, and risks?

I strongly support sex ed. I have seen over and over in my generation and others what happens when kids are not taught about sex from a REALIST perspective. They pick it up from their peers, or they just make somthing up. This is the result of teachers and parents not telling their kids the truth. Because I am a sensitive person I sometimes take issue with the female centered view of many advice columnists BUT I would willingly make relevent Dear Abby or even Dan Savage "Savage Love" collumns MANDITORY reading across America. Not in high school. In middle school. Why? Because I care what happens to these kids. And even if I only cared about myself I would vote the same on this. Why? Because later down the line their problems are going to become MY problems. And I have enough problems.