BEG has pretty much answered you regarding children, but I would like to add that there is a huge difference between having an opinion on a car or Starbucks and sounding like a know-it-all righteous parent with perfect children when you don't have children!!
I had the sex talks with my kids when the time was appropriate. I have never bought condoms for my son, and yes I did buy birth control pills for my daughter when she was 18 years old, out of high school and 2 weeks away from leaving for college because I did not want her college education to be in total disarray because she ended up pregnant!!!
She got pregnant when she was 27 had a ABS degree and 6 weeks left of finishing up radiology tech school. She kept the baby, got married and SHE makes over $60,000 a year. And she and her husband had another baby last October.
If that makes me a bad parent in your opinion - then I guess I am.
Personally....I think I did ok.
Oh yeah....I also happen to like Starbucks Double Chocolatey-Chip Frappacinos.
Why do we put this on the girls all the time.? When a female says no and is raped and not being on birth controll she will get PREGNATE some times, even 12 year old girls can do so.
Monsters have been known to rape NUNS, for crying out loud. To place a female on the pill when she begins to menstruate is no big deal. This is much like getting a vaccination to prevent disease, Bad things do happen to good girls.
Everyone points to the girl who may be sweet talked into a mess, or forced into one.
Raising two boys I at no time as their mother thought that they could ever NOT control themselves in that area. However to be realistic, my boy baby's are made much different from my girls.
You can talk all you want to about the extreme pressure place on the males in society by the woman who may in someway arouse them, old time men would get all excited if they saw a woman's ankle. Only the Lord knows what goes through a males head just watching half naked woman at the mall today.
We are not Muslim, we do not insist our woman and girls hide behind vales and loose clothing.
Strange but there is rape of the woman that do so regardless of their clothing.
For men to excuse their lust--a natural reaction for the male, and to excuse it for any reason is
Give me a break, I now know as a mother that had I faced reality and placed my girls on the pill their lives would have been far different then what it is today.
Putting your daughters on the pill does not mean they will go crazy and have sex, they will not run into the street looking for a good time.
For men sex is a release, like having a good bowel movement. For females sex is a commitment.
