Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Broad And Pleasant Road News

Syphilis up. Abortions up.

Sexual infection diagnoses have been almost continually rising since the 1990s, with the highest increases in recent years being seen in the 16 to 24 age group.

We obviously need more and earlier sex education.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

How about this "more and earlier sex education" coming from the home along with a bit of discipline....or is this too much to ask of parents nowadays?

Anonymous said...

Cantabrian..yes I am a parent, I would not presume to comment if otherwise.
A parent has all the rights in the world to discipline their children, not to hit the children quite rightly, but to spend their parenting time in trying to point their children in the right direction and to encourage respect for themselves and others. It may not always work and, from experience, the parent is often regarded as "not popular", "a stuck record" etc. but, from observation, I think there is some very sloppy parenting nowadays and too much regard for "PC".
But hey, I might be regarded as a grumpy old woman and my boys are now men but they often talk of, with amusement, the times I chased them round the garden with a wet dishcloth swiping at their legs over some dastardly deed!
Big as they are they know I would do it all over again if I thought they were not behaving in a respectful manner.