We have got to do something about our youth !
If we wait on others, the job won't GET DONE !
We are bombarded at every turn with s*xually explicit messages, American teenagers need comprehensive s*x education. Like they put it..., IT'S TIME TO KEEP IT REAL !
The future of our race depends on what we do NOW about this situation.
Forget about the annihilation of any other race, It's ours that is in serious jepardy !
One-fifth of teenagers and a third of young adults in their early 20's admit and told pollsters that they have sent s*xually suggestive text messages- called s*xting- or posted **** or semi**** photos of themselves on the internet.
While all along, Black girls ages 14 to 19 : nearly 50 percent of them have an STD at some time.
The last eight years, this country has done a disservice to young people by spending $1 billion pushing an abstinence-only message that disregards the importance of other viable methods to prevent pregnancy and the spread of s*xually transmitted deseases.
The approach that the Bush administration had and believed in,that was encouraging teens to wait untill marriage to engage in s*x, and thought that it would reduce teen preganancy and STD's, hasn't worked.
We have the highest rate of teen preganancy in the developed world.
Also what's alarming is also that at least one in four teenage girls already have at least one of four commonly s*xually transmitted diseases NOW !
One in four ? Yes, you heard me, one in four,right this minute.
On top of it all, some don't even know that they have it.
It's apparent that they need more information. Lawmakers are supposedly been considering a bill authorizing federal funding for comprehensive s*x-education programs. An act under the Responsible Education About Life ( REAL ) Act where youngsters would get age-appropriate s*x education.
Considering ?
While they are considering, don't you think we need to get off our duffs and do something ourselves ?
First off, we need to be even more responsible for our own, as parents !
We have got to get back into CONTROL !
Double back home when they think you are gone to work or somewhere else.
( a child left alone will cause you shame one day ) You must train them well and then monitor that training.
Also with monitoring and training, Check what they are doing on cell phones and the internet.
You can call it... "Because I love you and we have already talked ,but I need to see if were still on the same page method." or, (whatever you want to call it ), and see what the heck they're doing.
Naturally, the.. "don't you trust me ?" is going to enter the picture, so you want to be ready for this. You mght want to say something like...." You know I do, but as your parent, You do want me to be there for you if something happens to you don't you ?
These are just a couple of suggestions, you're on your own with creativity, but we are going to have to DO SOMETHING !
This is just a start, we've a long way to go !
Above all, talk with them, they need us more than ever before.
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Posted By: Min.Dr.LaDonna Blaylock D.D.
Thursday, April 9th 2009 at 10:59AM
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