Birds on the Brain

Think about this contradiction for a moment. Children are being exposed, day in and day out, to some incredibly wacky and bizarre sexual images and content, and are then passing this information on to other children, yet many parents are worried that school sex education will somehow contaminate their innocent minds with dangerous sexual information. Huh? What am I missing here? These parents argue that they want to be the ones to teach their children about sex and sexuality, and they will be the ones to decide when it should be done. This would be fine, except a majority of parents profess to having considerable difficulty communicating with their children about sex and sexuality, About one third of us fear that talking to our kids about sex will cause them to have sex, another third feel uncomfortable, and the remaining third would prefer that others do the teaching for us. So many of us are really not doing what we claim we want to do – and we are leaving our children at the mercy of sexual misinformation.