Sex education

How do our children and young people learn about sex if not from us?  What are we teaching them?

I am remembering a time when we used to talk about AIDS and other STDs.  It was at a time when the rate of infections were lower.  Why have we stopped?  Is it because there is now a cure in some cases?  I heard a case on ABC radio where somebody is living longer than what the doctors told her to expect.

But there are still the morality issues.  Fiona Philips said that "our children are being failed by a lack of proper, structured information about loving partnerships and how to negotiate them because a squeamish, ignorant few would rather their children found out the hard way.".  They learn from porn, etc. because their parents and school teachers forget or are too squeamish to tell them the real story.  Would you agree?

Does church have a role to play also?

Another article that caught my eye is a father's letter to Victoria Secrets.  The letter basically said that advertising, etc. has made the work of the parents a lot harder, in upholding morality when manufacturers and sales encourage our young people to "flaunt it".  What do you think of that?

Because we who should know better are not educatiing your younger ones the way we should, Rebekah Maxwell reckons that our youth are more likely to get STDs than to get a job.  Do you think she is exaggerating?

What is the truth about this matter?  How should young people behave sexually?  Who has the power and right to teach them?  What do you think?