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I've 3 now & I have to say that I talked to them as well.  Of course abstinence is the only fool proof thing that keeps a person from STD's, pregnancy etc. but if history has taught us anything teens aren't always good at practicing abstinence.  I find it interesting that parents want sex education to be left just at home for parents to teach when the need for education is because parents are not teaching their kids sex ed.  Let's face it it's a supply because of a demand thing.  Kids are given all kinds of false information by parents & then they don't want educators give them the real stuff & it just doesn't make any sense.  Kids having been making mistakes since the beginning of time & they need to be shown how to protect themselves.  On top of that I think that in a time when people are waiting until they're in their 30's to get married for the young people not planning to get married at all or not while they're young they're going to think waiting till marriage is not an option for them.  I think for them hearing "wait till marriage" is an out dated notion & leads to them thinking we're adults that are out of touch with what's happening in the world today.  Who wasn't a kid thinking "My mother is still talking like it's the same as when she was a kid & she doesn't know what the heck she is talking about?"  We were wrong of course but at the time it sounded perfectly sensible & the kids haven't changed all that much.  Stay in tune to your kids it's really the only way to protect them or make sure they're protecting themselves.