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From: allen@bunker.UUCP (C. Allen Grabert)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: teens and sex
Message-ID: <1102@bunker.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Mar-86 13:15:12 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 13 13:15:12 1986
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Reply-To: allen@bunker.UUCP (C. Allen Grabert)
Organization: Bunker Ramo, Trumbull Ct
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Summary: 

This discussion of teenagers and sex raises a question that I haven't
really seen discussed.  That is, what if the family's religious beliefs
state that premarital sex is improper?  Not, 'If it feels good or if you
are with someone you love and you're protected, it's alright', but 'No
one may have sex until they are married because sex is specially
reserved for that time.'  Is a mother in such a family doing wrong to
not talk to her daughter about contraception since that would imply that
the mother is condoning or expecting premarital sex?  Should she tell
her daughter about contraception anyway because 'even though it's not
proper she is human and humans sometimes do things they shouldn't and
she should be protected just in case'?  What if the parents believe that
they've raised their daughter to understand that she should wait until
marriage to have sex and also to come talk to them when she has
questions or conflicts between what they've taught her and what others
are telling her?  (This ought to provoke a good discussion.)
-- 

"She's as beautiful, oh so beautiful, beautiful as a foot..."
Allen Grabert (...ittatc!bunker!allen)