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The Republican platform has had its head in the sand for way too long when it comes to sex education. We need to educate our youth about birth control.

Let's face it, where you have males and females, you're going to have sex! It's one thing the human species does really well.

So, why not quit condemning the girl for being "naughty," and start concentrating your efforts on helping our children prepare for the responsibilities that come with sex?

Unfortunately Mr. and Ms. Palin either did not prepare their daughter or she ignored them. Now they will have a new life to care for who will grow up without a daddy.

Let's talk to and educate our precious youth - - - both democrat and republican youth!

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You say that Palin’s daughter getting pregnant is “proof that her ideas are far fetched.” If that’s true, how do you explain why 70 percent of all births in our African-American communities are to unwed mothers -- and many or even most of those mothers have received sex “education” in school. You remember the old saying, “You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink.” Providing information is only part of the challenge facing parents and teachers in the arena of sex. Accepting it and using it is the other part, and that is up to the child/student.

You are looking at only one side of a three-sided coin. Kids may get some of their information about sex from their parents and they may get some of it from their teachers at school, but they will get most of it from their peers. And they are much more likely to emulate the behavior, real or claimed, of their peers than follow the “advice” of their parents and teachers. After all, being a virgin is not something a girl wants to brag about if she is the last one left standing in her group. For the guys, hormones will beat “values” almost any day of the week. Virginity, his or hers, is about as desirable as leprosy, but it is much easier to treat and even easier to cure.

One of the problems with sex education as taught in schools is that it is largely anatomical: “This is an XXX and that’s a YYY.” Besides, by the time they enter the 5th grade, most kids know more about sex than their parents and teachers do. They just haven’t tried it yet (in most cases). They often find their teachers’ stilted explanations little more than amusing.

Many schools teach sex education to children, but the fact is that when you match up teachers who don’t want to teach with students who don’t want to learn, you end up with high school students who read at a 4th grade level and think algebra is some kind of a disease. Do we really want those kinds of teachers to provide young children with information about sex? Teachers can teach mechanics, but they can’t teach values. They can teach the “How to” part, but they’re at a loss when it comes to the “Why not to” part. When it comes to sex, teachers often come across as preachers and most kids are more interested in “playing” than in praying. And if they do pray, the girls are likely to exchange “Amen” for “Ahhhhhhhhh…MEN!” :)

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I don't think anybody is saying Palin didn't do her job.

Prisons are full of people that committed crimes...are you insinuating that their parents didn't teach them that crime is wrong because their children broke the law?

Just because you teach your kids right from wrong...smart decisions from bad decisions...doesn't mean they always listen.

Are you honestly claiming YOUR children always listen to you and take YOUR advice 100% of the time?

If they do, you must be the best parent of all time!!!!!!

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David. It was her daughter who sinned, not Sarah. EVERYONE sins. Oh wait a minute. I guess you and you family doesn't, right??

Do you honestly believe Obama and his family doesn't sin??

The majority of young adults have sex outside of marriage, but I suppose you are claiming yours and Obama's doesn't....yeah....right....

I believe in teaching my own children about sex...not letting government schools spend time teaching their own "version" instead of basic education that they lack.

You have no idea what she and her husband taught their children and if you have any idea what teenagers are like, you would understand that sometimes they do not do what they are taught. Her daughter chose to have the child and her family is supporting her.

What is your problem?

Abstinence Only sex ed. does work. Condom's and birth control in schools doesn't work. Why don't you check out the stats on it. Can you do that?

Why is it people-Democrats are so HATEFUL. For supposedly the party for the people they are so mean.

Maybe she's all for babies having babies. Maybe she thinks we should all just get our tubes tied and have it reversed when we decide to concieve.....all with our expensive privatized healthcare.

I agree, abstinence is a joke, and teens don't always have the best judgement. They need to be educated on the seriousness of becoming sexually active.

I don't think Palin is very abstinent either, with her 5 kids.

I agree fully. I don't want her teaching these far-fetched ideas of a 1950s yesteryear to my children in school. We live in the 21st century where our kids are exposed to so much more without our full control. I don't think McCain made a good choice. But then again this isn't the first bad choice the republicans have made recently.

I agree that "abstinence only" concept is not always effective, but if a teen is old enough to drive and is having sex, then he/she is old enough to go to the drug store and buy protection. All teenagers know that it is out there. But, pregnancy still happens.