Sex Education-Why Children Need it From Their Parents
The world in which we live in today has a very accepting culture. People are encouraged to seek out their own desires and wishes. The focus is on self and individualism. Sex is a certain “activity” that society would say the individual should get at the time, anywhere, anyhow, and with whoever. While this may seem okay to society, as members of families, we should know that there should be some regulation to the how, why, who, and when of sex. Being an advocate for appropriate sex and the importance of its sanctity should begin in the home, with our children. Society hasn’t always been so open with sex. Just when my own mother was young, when a woman got pregnant, they would say she was “in the family way”. People were much more uncomfortable with even saying the word ‘sex’. Everything was proper and people never got divorced. I’m not suggesting that this was better or even preferred, but I think that our society can’t find a healthy balance between keeping sex sacred but not be