Talk about sex; It helps !

This article touched base on a lot of things I hear about all the time. Americans do have a lot of stereotypes about teenagers and sex. And parents fall right into that trap. They don’t talk about sex in they’re house so that it won’t happen but they don’t know what that does to the child.

For one it makes them unprepared for when the situation is introduced to them. Also it makes them feel like the parents don’t care, teens feel they don’t talk about it so parents just don’t care about what they do do; teenagers take a lot of little things very seriously. And lastly I feel American parents’ makes their children petrified of telling them anything. Just like Kimberly, she was on such a high petal stool that she thought not being a virgin anymore would basically make her parents look and treat her different. They never took the time to talk to her about sex, or to inform her on how they felt on that subject. Now if Kimberly turns out to be pregnant she may turn into one of those kids who hides the pregnancy for nine months, gives birth and throws the baby in the trash or something.

American parents don’t understand the importance of coping with the idea of their teen having sex. Talking to their teen can prevent a lot of bad events from happening. Sex these days are going on between younger and younger children each day. So parents need to step up and stop being scared, letting their kids know isn’t going to make them go out and do “it” they’ll have guide lines and won’t be as scared when they have to face sex and/or its consequences. I’d like to quote the article “Normalizing teenage sex under the family roof opens the way for more responsible sex education.” If the Dutch see it this way then why can’t Americans.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/opinion/sunday/24schalet.html?src=me&ref=general