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?

"How is private school any better of a place to teach sex-ed than public schools, whether or not one takes monopoly over the other?" Well, the argument is that the government takes children away from their parents and put them in the hand of strangers who operate under a quite rigid syllabus. If I was an objectivist I would whine about fascist methods, conformity and use adjectives like "sick", but as a moderate I think libertarians should pick their battles.
"Instead of relying on individually funded schools, it would benifit us all if the quality of public schools rivaled that of private, and if it's gotta come from tax dollars so be it." Yeah I can buy that, this would stifle the libertarian vice of regarding the quality of government as intrinsic. A battle between government and private institutions would be interesting.