"Joe Young" wrote in message
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Tell me Rich...why does anyone other than her parents need to tell her
anything? It seems to me the parents have the responsibility to initially
take the appropriate steps to insure the pregnancy does not occur. If
that
fails...it is then their responsibility to guide her through that
challenging time in her life. There in lies the significant difference
between conservatives and liberals. Conservatives believe the
responsibility lies with the family...liberals believe only the "State"
can
educate on matters of reproduction, and only the State can solve social
problems. Remember "it takes a village"?

Paraphrasing a sex educator I heard on the radio many years ago: "We think
that's a *wonderful* idea! We are *completely in favor* of parents giving
their children effective sex education. But, until that starts to happen
(*), can we *please* have effective sex education in the schools?"

(*) implicit in the statement is "in sufficiently significant quantities". I
know your kids and my kids were well educated at home, of course.

In this case, I think the liberals were the hard-nosed realists.

-- David Brooks