Topic : 04/07 Social Taboos: Is This Normal?

At how NOT a CPS issue this is.  It is not illegal to discuss or even provide your child with pornography.  That would make everyones parenting skills/styles called into question, not just those who are way more open that the norm. 

It may also interest you to know it isn't a CPS to smoke crack with kids in your house!  We have worked with CPS for almost 6 years and literally walked in to catch the parents smoking it, called the hot line and was told "it's criminal" because the children are fed, have housing and are clean.  

Yes, it is a messed up system, but with sexuality it's a whole other ballgame because my morals/standards/childrearing techniques may not be yours and vice versa.  

As a mother I was absolutely appauled at the devastation this woman is causing in her childrens lives. I felt that this was almost a form of molestation. It is so unfair for this woman to expose these innocent babies to such a make believe gross world that the normal person wouldnt want to be apart of.....much less expose there children too. Does she not realize she is setting her kids up to be judged especially now that she has taken it on national TV! What parent would ever let there child play at her house and what mother would let her son date this crazy womens daughter knowing what the whole world knows about her and her family! What a selfish woman, think about your kids instead of yourself!  Those children deserve a chance to know what a normal loving relationship between MAN AND WIFE is like. THey deserve to know what a first kiss is like without the screwed up vision of sex toys or multiple partners. What a wimp this man is in there lives....BE A MAN and do whats right for these kids! Give them a chance to be children and give them a safe place to fall and not on a vibrator! Most parents live there whole lives protecting there children from kids like this that have been exposed to too much ( Me being one of them) I would fight tooth and nail to keep my son from being exposed to these things and especially to these kids...And I am sure that most of america agrees!  Is this women so insecure that she would sell her kids out to be in a relationship? Is she so desperate that the kids lives are just not important...what a disgrace as a parent! The best thing that could ever happen to give them a fighting chance in life is that CPS would step in! 

girls get pregnant in their teens because no one talks openly like this to them about sex. i think the family is doing a great job making their kids feel free, and comfortable to talk about sex, which after all is a natural thing everyone runs to in life. it is good that they will be well informed and be able to make the right decisions! 

sorry i havn't answered any of the questions, i find it hard to navigate through the message board, i couldn't find my first posting, that's why i posted another one, so sorry for that! 

I do think the thing about letting the 12yr old walk naked around the house is WRONG, but talking to her 14yr old about sex, and providing her with birthcontrol and condoms is great. the peoblem i see everywhere is that parents don't do that! whether you like t or not your kids are going to have sex, and yes it will easily happen even at age 14, so isn't it better tp provide them with the things to at least make it safe? what's the chance that her daughters will get pregnant? very slim if you ask me. About the sex toys i think that's up for debate, what will it do to her kid if she sees it? with all the other things the kids are exposed to does it matter? and about the porn site, i think it's o.k that they let her go on it since they don't hide anything else what does it matter? also another thing is that kids will go to porn sites out of curiusity, why make it awkward for them? they want to see what's it's all about, it's a natural learning process that shouldn't be made a big deal out of... personally i think porn sites don't show much of what's happening in real life so they arn't that great of an example for reality, but i think it's o.k to look... basically what i am trying to say is what i really appreciate the family for doing is letting their kids have an open environment where they can discuss this... 

sorry again for not answering the questions before, if there are questions that i didn't answer please write again and i will answer them if i find them!