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Monday, November 12, 2007

11/10/07 - Port Chester Editorial - Find middle ground on sex education


Find middle ground on sex education


“A veteran is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The United States of America for an amount of up to and including their life.”


When will our schools get sex education right? I am referring to the article about an Irvington Middle School boy who told his parents, 'Today at school I learned that oral sex is safer than anal sex.' I also saw a TV special on a middle school in Maine that sells birth control and condoms to children as young as 11.


Maybe it is just me, but selling birth control and other forms of contraception is giving children incentive to engage in sexual activity. Don't get me wrong. I believe every person has a choice, but an 11-year-old probably cannot make the right choice when it comes to sex. At that age, a child's body is not even fully developed and will continue to change for years to come. The right approach to sex ed lies somewhere between abstinence and the handing out of contraception


By now it is fairly obvious that the abstinence-only approach isn't working; however, we do not need to promote sex. The amount of information that we throw on our kids should be done in school and at home gradually. Kids at 11 do not know the same amount as an 18-year-old. We do not need to rush them into premature sexual activity. I believe children should be aware of the different types of contraception, but should not bring it home from school and at no point should they be encouraged to engage in one type of sex over the other.


Vincent Fiscella


Port Chester


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