Replies to '03/03 Teens and Sex with Bishop T.D. Jakes'

Whether parents are doing the responsible thing by talking to their children about the "Birds and the Bees" or kids get sex education at school .... unless these kids today have been living in a cave, they should know that fooling around when they're teenagers can lead to disaster.

Nobody taught me about sex; I found out about it on the street, like every other kid in my era, but not one of my girls friends fooled around sexually and therefore didn't get pregnant.  Why?  Because we knew our parents would be so angry, they'd probably have tossed us out of the house.  If I got pregnant when I was a kid, I would have had to run away because this information would have hit my house like the H-bomb!  I knew better and so did everyone I knew and I wasn't brought up in a extremely religious home - none of us were..  Girls in my day didn't want to be called sluts and whores; I only remember one girl in my high school getting pregnant ... teenage pregnancy wasn't running rampant like it is today.  It appears to me that children today HAVE NOT BEEN TAUGHT THE BASIC MORALS OF LIKE AT HOME.

However, if my child came home pregnant, my very first suggestion would be - actually I would be encouraging it - ABORTION! ... without any doubt.  If my teenage daughter told me she was sexually active, she would be at the doctor the very next day getting a prescription for birth control and while we're at the drug store we would be purchasing the giant size box of condoms.

To comment on this show, the PREACHER teaching abstinence only, is a complete IDIOT; the 14 year old sexually active girl who has birth control, and whatever else Mom got her, in hand, is a FOOL; the young woman, who now has two children, who said she wouldn't have got pregnant with her first baby if her school would have provided birth control is a complete DUMB-ASS (and to say what she did on public TV just proves my assertion of her). 

I like what the Bishop is saying but, unfortunately, it is not a reality in today's atmosphere - unless children have very good parents.  And, finally, what Dr. Phil said - if he knew his child was going to have sex regardless, he would provide them with a box of condoms makes the most sense of all.

Parents today are frightened of their children and they are not doing them any favours by going along with their wants.  NO means NO!  I think a bit of healthy fear of one's parents is a good thing - there should be consequences when you get pregnant ... and that doesn't mean Mom and Dad are going to be raising your child.  It means: no more going to the malls with your girlfriends; no more dances or clubbing; no more hanging out with the gang; and no more of whatever else kids today.  It would be school and then immideiately back home to take care of the baby.  The teenage girl's life is over; she is now saddled with a baby/child way before her time.  It is all so very sad!!

Whether parents are doing the responsible thing by talking to their children about the "Birds and the Bees" or kids get sex education at school .... unless these kids today have been living in a cave, they should know that fooling around when they're teenagers can lead to disaster.

Nobody taught me about sex; I found out about it on the street, like every other kid in my era, but not one of my girls friends fooled around sexually and therefore didn't get pregnant.  Why?  Because we knew our parents would be so angry, they'd probably have tossed us out of the house.  If I got pregnant when I was a kid, I would have had to run away because this information would have hit my house like the H-bomb!  I knew better and so did everyone I knew and I wasn't brought up in a extremely religious home - none of us were..  Girls in my day didn't want to be called sluts and whores; I only remember one girl in my high school getting pregnant ... teenage pregnancy wasn't running rampant like it is today.  It appears to me that children today HAVE NOT BEEN TAUGHT THE BASIC MORALS OF LIKE AT HOME.

However, if my child came home pregnant, my very first suggestion would be - actually I would be encouraging it - ABORTION! ... without any doubt.  If my teenage daughter told me she was sexually active, she would be at the doctor the very next day getting a prescription for birth control and while we're at the drug store we would be purchasing the giant size box of condoms.

To comment on this show, the PREACHER teaching abstinence only, is a complete IDIOT; the 14 year old sexually active girl who has birth control, and whatever else Mom got her, in hand, is a FOOL; the young woman, who now has two children, who said she wouldn't have got pregnant with her first baby if her school would have provided birth control is a complete DUMB-ASS (and to say what she did on public TV just proves my assertion of her). 

I like what the Bishop is saying but, unfortunately, it is not a reality in today's atmosphere - unless children have very good parents.  And, finally, what Dr. Phil said - if he knew his child was going to have sex regardless, he would provide them with a box of condoms makes the most sense of all.

Parents today are frightened of their children and they are not doing them any favours by going along with their wants.  NO means NO!  I think a bit of healthy fear of one's parents is a good thing - there should be consequences when you get pregnant ... and that doesn't mean Mom and Dad are going to be raising your child.  It means: no more going to the malls with your girlfriends; no more dances or clubbing; no more hanging out with the gang; and no more of whatever else kids today.  It would be school and then immideiately back home to take care of the baby.  The teenage girl's life is over; she is now saddled with a baby/child way before her time.  It is all so very sad!!