Why do you think they're anti-abortion?

Something tells me she should have her teaching license revoked permanently.

Her favorite thing to say was that sex ed was like giving kids keys to a car and expecting them not to drive. Eventually I started responding, "No, it's like teaching them how to drive so they can do it safely when they're ready." Her response was always to change the subject.

Her phrase is exactly what abstinence-only sex education is.

When kids grow up, they find their own keys and ignitions quite easily. So they have the keys and the ignition/car, and abstinence-only sex ed is like "no driving" driver's ed. But they have the keys and they're sitting in the car and they have somewhere they want to be.

I also imagine that abstinence-only sex education doesn't usually mean teaching safe "outercourse", mutual masturbation, etc...so they have the keys and the car, somewhere they need to be, and nobody tells them about taxis or busses or bicycles...

This debate is completely lost on me.

Someone was trying to explain that the reason she sends her kids to a private school is because she doesn't want them to learn about sex when they're too young.

I don't get it.

I genuinely don't see the problem with kids knowing everything their curious minds want to know about reproduction.

She said they're too young to process it. I think she means they're too young to process the weird moral overlay she wants them to adopt.

How is a laptop necessary when ADHD? I would think that it contains way more vectors for distraction than a sheet of paper and a pen.

I mean you used in a great way in this anecdote, but I'm seriously curious about what medical motivation there is for this circumstance.

Curious to know what was her response to you providing a proof on CDC claims about condoms.

Maybe, previously, the government actually didn't know, and wanted to do the right thing. Like before the 90s. But then we found out that, that didn't work at all.

And NOW, the government does know, but so does the administration. The president knows the effects, and DOESN'T want to do the right thing.

We are in a terrible timeline. Presidential Administration of Child Predators. PACP.

Honestly when has this NOT been the case? It's heard and quoted absolutely everywhere. The most sheltered are always the freakiest

Wild in an abstinent and chaste way, right?

A great cautionary tale is Bristol Palin (Sarah Palin's daughter), who became pregnant while unmarried and later became the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Ambassador for an organization promoting abstinence-only education.

That was a great decision financially - she was paid more than $1/4 million per year, but even that kind of paycheck, her born-again nutcase mother, and the evangelical church couldn't make abstinence work. She became pregnant with a 2nd child while still unmarried and while still getting paid for promoting abstinence-only. Imagine the outrage if that had been Obama's daughter!

Actually since she walked away with $1 million plus, maybe it isn't such a great cautionary tale.

That's what they want