Parents Told To Be Silent On Morality
In the UK, the government began handing out leaflets telling parents how to discuss sexual behavior with their children. They were told not to impose their morality onto their children.
Check out the article at thetimesonline.
Can you believe the government is telling parents not to introduce morality to their children? I say the parents should be telling the government to include morality in education.
Maybe that's why aggrevated assault is so much higher in England than here in the US. And maybe that's why that 13 year old boy became a father in Essex.
I don't think we're far from this here in the US. This is along the lines of the sex education reform that Obama voted for. We are headed down a slippery slope.
Check out the article at thetimesonline.
Can you believe the government is telling parents not to introduce morality to their children? I say the parents should be telling the government to include morality in education.
Maybe that's why aggrevated assault is so much higher in England than here in the US. And maybe that's why that 13 year old boy became a father in Essex.
I don't think we're far from this here in the US. This is along the lines of the sex education reform that Obama voted for. We are headed down a slippery slope.
posted by Matthew Canonicus at
11:02 PM
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More and more I hear parents say that they don't want to "force" their beliefs on their children. They want their children to be able to make decisions for themselves in regards to religion, morals, etc...
That's sad! How can children learn to make those choices if they aren't taught what to believe in first? I was raise Catholic in a very Catholic home. The rule was, "This is what we believe in THIS house. If you don't like it, when you live on your own, you can make a different decision."
No matter what, I had to attend services every weekend until the day I moved out. It was prefered that I attend with family; but if I couldn't I was mandated to attend a service sometime before noon on Sunday. I don't see that much anymore.
I did make my own choice when I moved out on my own. I am now Orthodox Christian! It took a few years for me to settle down and figure that out; but I was able to make the choice on my own.
When I was 3? 10? or even 16? I didn't have the capacity to make a moral/ethical/religious decision. Parents need to teach their children these things...that's their number one job!
We have become so convinced that education is what children need that we have stopped raising them or giving them an upbringing.
Too many people fail to love their children and they expect the schools to make up for that. No school can make up for a lack of love.
Though the government doesn't mandate it here, I see lots of kids that seem to be taught nothing at home and this seems to be preparing them for life in prison.:0/
What do they think parents are for?
I am beginning to think that parents think their only job is to keep their children physically safe (and some aren't even good at that). As long as they don't get scrapes, bumps, bruises, broken bones, etc... then they think they are doing their job.
Forget teaching their children anything (academically, emotionally, socially, ethically, or any -lly you can think of). Heck, they don't even take responsibility for their children when they misbehave outside of their home, "Well, I wasn't with him when he stole the candy bar, you deal with it."
Pretty much, in some people's eyes, if your child makes it to 18 alive then they see you as a good parent; parenting and raising children is so much more than that.
Good point, LL. Often times the government is not the problem, it's the parents! Good physicality vs. spirituality distinction, Jenni.
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