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From: whitehur@tymix.UUCP (Pamela K. Whitehurst)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: teens and sex
Message-ID: <697@tymix.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Mar-86 13:02:20 EST
Article-I.D.: tymix.697
Posted: Fri Mar 14 13:02:20 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Mar-86 19:37:34 EST
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Reply-To: whitehur@tymix.UUCP (Pamela K. Whitehurst)
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In article <1102@bunker.UUCP> allen@bunker.UUCP (C. Allen Grabert) writes:
>[...]  what if the family's religious beliefs
>state that premarital sex is improper?  
>[...]  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'?

It's just my belief but, contraceptives should be discussed when sex
is discussed.  So far I have tried to keep the level of information about
contraceptives equivalent to the level of information about sex. (This
is where babies come from ... the mother decided to get pregnant)

Your questions seem to indicate that a mother who does not believe in
premarital sex will tell her daughter about sex.  I am not sure she would.
However, if she tells her teenagers about sex she should also tell them
about the results of sex and how to control some of the results, before
they find out from someone else. 

Religious beliefs that state premarital sex is improper have more
behind them than 'because you might get pregnant'. These are the
values that parents teach and (hopefully) children learn.

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        P. K. Whitehurst 
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