COLUMNIST EXPOSES DANGERS AND ABUSES OF SEX EDUCATION

WASHINGTON, February 13, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A column by Janice Crouse, on the website of Concerned Women for America, offers highlights from research on sex education and parental attitudes. Among her findings are that many U.S. schoolchildren aged 5-8 are being taught that it feels good to touch and rub body parts, while children aged 9-12 are taught that homosexuality is as satisfying as heterosexuality, and teens from age 15 to 18 are being taught that “using erotic photographs, movies or literature will enhance sexual fantasies.”  Crouse also cites Zogby polling that shows parents approve of abstinence sex education (by a 4.6 to 1 margin); parents disapprove of teaching children that homosexual relationships are as satisfying as heterosexual relationships; and that parental attitudes are mixed toward giving children factual/biological sex information, but they don’t want a connection between their children and sexual activity. This means that thousands of schools are doing the opposite of what parents want.  “After more than 20 years of condom-based sex education to adolescents, we’ve added more than two dozen sexually transmitted diseases to the two known STDs of 1960, syphilis and gonorrhea. Meanwhile, “the National Institutes for Health state that 100%  consistency in condom usage produces only a 87% reduction in risk of HIV and even less protection for other STDs.” She concludes with a strong recommendation for jettisoning explicit sex-ed and turning to abstinence education.  To read the full column:  https://www.cwfa.org/articledisplay.asp?id=3312&department=BLI&categoryid=dotcommentary