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IDEAL08
I'm glad that your parents tactics worked for you, but under no circumstances would I have those kinds of conversations with an 8 yr old and I am not a prude. You may have well been just as well off if that conversation had taken place at 12or 13 years of age.
You keep speaking of education. How in the world can people have more access to information at a younger age than they do now? I'm sure that what your parents taught you were taught with morals and ethics involved and not just a sterile information lesson. What children are not getting is the moral component. With 70% of our children in one parent homes and 40% in poverty, simply knowing the mechanics of sex or the dangers of drugs is not enough. Education is not a panacea. Our children are vulnerable to the images that are rammed into their undeveloped minds. Mandated Censorship is not the key but self-censorship is. Because it sells is not a good enough answers. People are making money off of sending our children to the grave.
One thing that we must not assume is that because we were raised with good parenting, that is not the norm for most of our culture at the moment. Until that happens, other measures need to be in place.
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