When it comes to sex education for students in public schools, should parents choose abstinence education and teach youth to 'just say No' to sex until marriage? Or should parents opt for safe-sex education and assume that kids will have sex anyway, so tell them to use condoms to protect themselves against STDs and unwanted pregnancy? Which path is better for kids?
That question forms the battle line between one group of parents and another group of parents in the debate for sex education for school-age children. The battle became real one recent afternoon when a subscriber to The Family Foundation of Kentucky received the following message, with the subject line "SAYING NO TO SAYING NO?".
The email reads, "A new coalition of organizations in Kentucky , including the ACLU and Planned Parenthood, is calling for the state's health departments to reject over $800,000 in federal money for abstinence-only education. They claim that abstinence education programs are 'not the answer for youth' and that they are 'fear-based, promote gender stereotypes and aren't effective.'"
The email continues, quoting Derek Selznick, director of the Reproductive Freedom Project of the ACLU of Kentucky , " One of the biggest problems is that we know teens are having sex, regardless of what message is being presented to them."
The Family Foundation comments, "Unfortunately, the message that is often filtered through to teens by Planned Parenthood, pop music and the media is the one that says they can have 'safe sex' without consequences."
The Kentucky charity makes this claim, "Ironically, Planned Parenthood receives over $300 million annually in federal funding, and being the number one provider of abortions in America, they benefit financially when contraception fails to provide 'safe sex.'"
The writer of the email closes his/her message by writing, " LET US PRAY regarding this attack on the message of abstinence until marriage that coalitions such as this would not be successful in muting groups that teach the only proven way to prevent sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancy. Let us also pray for today's teens that they would stand firm and not buy into the lies of 'safe sex'".
The recipient of the email replied The Family Foundation of Kentucky with this: " And let us pray that those of us who teach abstinence will do a better job of living it out in our families, so that our own children do not become the most effective weapon in the arsenal of the 'safe sex' warriors."
That question forms the battle line between one group of parents and another group of parents in the debate for sex education for school-age children. The battle became real one recent afternoon when a subscriber to The Family Foundation of Kentucky received the following message, with the subject line "SAYING NO TO SAYING NO?".
The email reads, "A new coalition of organizations in Kentucky , including the ACLU and Planned Parenthood, is calling for the state's health departments to reject over $800,000 in federal money for abstinence-only education. They claim that abstinence education programs are 'not the answer for youth' and that they are 'fear-based, promote gender stereotypes and aren't effective.'"
The email continues, quoting Derek Selznick, director of the Reproductive Freedom Project of the ACLU of Kentucky , " One of the biggest problems is that we know teens are having sex, regardless of what message is being presented to them."
The Family Foundation comments, "Unfortunately, the message that is often filtered through to teens by Planned Parenthood, pop music and the media is the one that says they can have 'safe sex' without consequences."
The Kentucky charity makes this claim, "Ironically, Planned Parenthood receives over $300 million annually in federal funding, and being the number one provider of abortions in America, they benefit financially when contraception fails to provide 'safe sex.'"
The writer of the email closes his/her message by writing, " LET US PRAY regarding this attack on the message of abstinence until marriage that coalitions such as this would not be successful in muting groups that teach the only proven way to prevent sexually transmitted diseases and unwanted pregnancy. Let us also pray for today's teens that they would stand firm and not buy into the lies of 'safe sex'".
The recipient of the email replied The Family Foundation of Kentucky with this: " And let us pray that those of us who teach abstinence will do a better job of living it out in our families, so that our own children do not become the most effective weapon in the arsenal of the 'safe sex' warriors."
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