Comments about ‘Lawmakers consider sex-ed changes’

and blame the school when that responsibility really belongs in the home. But since he didn't get that info in the home, why doesn't he just ask his doctor? Some people . . .

And this is only in Utah right?

Our kids will learn it anyways why dont us parents teach them

Parents need to take responsibility for these things. And whose to say this man's parents didn't and he doesn't remember because at the time he wasn't listening?

The LDS church puts out excellent guides: (1) A Parent's Guide and (2) For the Strength of Youth.

There are also many excellent talks by General Authorities on the subject. They have always placed the responsibility on the parents.

Fathers and mothers should have frequent talks with their maturing children about these subjects, including the real happiness that comes through true intimacy (much deeper than sexual intimacy), how to stay pure until one is ready for marriage, why that is important, the true human nature (that urges are to be suppressed and can be mastered), the dangers of pornography (today's most rampant drug, that chemically alters the brain), etc.

Parents who do this in love and who also teach about the plan of salvation through faith, repentance, and constant efforts to keep the commandments (generally encapsulated in love god, and love your neighbor) and who take time with their children to communicate and enjoy wholesome recreational activities will find their children have happier lives and will establish more stable relationships (including sexual relationships) in marriage later on.

These are time-tested values based on both reason and revelation. I invite and encourage parents to this end!

Full and complete information needs to be provided to take the mystery out of human sexuality. People need to be educated and informed. That way they can make informed decisions. This not only goes for kids, but their parents too. Too many adults don't understand the human body much better than their kids. Stop hiding it. If you think you can control sexual passion by hiding, it won't work. It never has in the history of mankind, even in conservative societies. More focus should be on preventing negative outcomes such as unwanted pregnancies which lead to abortion.

So a thirty year old man has questions about birth control and he wants to blame his high school? I'm with the poster who said he should talk to his doctor. Or maybe he should read a book. Are we really so dependant on the government to answer our every need and/or question??

If Planned Parenthood needs to keep itself busy, why doesn't it work on educating parents, not their children. Their position should be that it's a parent's responsibility to teach sex education in the home, and they should gear their programs accordingly.

And if a teacher finds that twelve-year-old students are becoming parents, why take that out on all the other students and their parents? Get Planned Parenthood to work on the parents of the twelve-year-old students.

When did Sex Ed change from "Why it matters and how to be responsible" to "How to do it?"

We don't all have the same goals about Sex Ed, so how can we expect one program to satisfy all of our expectations.?

Utah Eagle Forum President Gayle Ruzicka told the committee the current curriculum is fine. "Let's not ruin what already works," she said.

Gayle Ruzicka is the mother of 12 kids. Apparently a sex education curriculum emphasizing abstinence is working just fine.

Information on this, and many other subjects, can be found at his local library, via books, periodicals, or access to a computer and the internet. It is always best to seek a variety of sources when making big decisions. Even if this man's school had given him the best birth control information available, it would no longer be current by the time he was 30.

Responsibility rests with the parents. This belongs with the family, not with the schools. My mother explained things to me after we had "the talk" at school my elementary school. To be perfectly honest it disgusted me at the time.

Aren't we having a hard enough time teaching the three R's? How about if we stick to "education"? The birds and the bees have been around a lot longer than our schools. I think people can figure things out for themselves if we let them. This is not the responsibility of our education system.

I listened to the committee hearing online. Every representative and senator who spoke agreed and emphasized that it is the job of a parent to teach this information. The problem comes from parents who are choosing not to take on this responsibility, and the result is pregnant teenagers and teens with STDs who are unaware they even have one.

Beyond that, what the school system really needs is detailed, current, and accurate education based on science. Dr. Grossman used, as an example, the immaturity of the cervix while girls are maturing, making them many times more susceptible to HPV. How many parents are well-versed in this and likely to teach it to their daughters?

Chris Buttars, who chaired the committee, kept going back to morality, and asking why morality wasn't part of the curriculum. That is the area that belongs to parents, although this conservative, limited-government champion, disagrees. But the dangers and risks and opportunities to avoid or identify these dangers and risks if you do choose sex needs to be taught.

If I were the girlfriend of the 30 yr. old guy I would run the other way because that is a definite flag. Not the fact that he doesn't know about contraception etc. but the fact that he didn't get the info. in school and is whining about it now that he's thirty? Yikes I say! Go talk to your Dr., you're a grown man!

Dr. Miriam Grossman's presentation was very revealing. She is right that the goal of Planned Parenthood and other similar organizations is sexual revolution rather than helping kids be healthy.

Utah's Planned Parenthood Web site has as many appalling descriptions and images on it as any other office in another state. Look it up yourself. It talks all about how sexuality is whatever you want it to be. Do whatever is pleasurable, etc. The Utah chapter has links and recommendations to national sites, which are even worse. Utah's Health Department even links to these Web sites.

No organizations like PP should be allowed to do anything in our public schools. If their work is so important, then donate money to them so they can reach kids outside of school, though reaching parents is a better idea.

The committee's action came following a presentation by Los Angeles author and psychiatrist Marion Grossman. She displayed clips from Web sites by Planned Parenthood affiliates around the nation, including a photo of a girl kissing another girl and stick figures showing sexual positions. "Is this what you want for the children of this state?" Grossman said.

However, Bird said Utah's Planned Parenthood affiliate doesn't have such Web sites. "Our Planned Parenthood of Utah is definitely its own unique affiliate," she said. "You can't say we do the same things Planned Parenthood of Texas does."

Once you sign the deal and they do put the "lesbian action" on their website...then what?

These people have an agenda.

One "planned parenthood" office back east was caught THIS YEAR telling a minor "don't tell me your age or you won't be able to get an abortion" and did not report to authorities that it was the girls mothers boyfriend who got her pregnant!!

You could tell from the audio that it was not the first time this lady had given this type of advice.

They think ANYTHING goes including covering up rape and underage abortions!!!

Plain and simple-pick up a copy of Mens Health magazine or Play-boy and learn about the real world using your common sense.Or go on line and learn all about the birds and bee's.Get out of your shell!

Anything wrong with having 12 kids? We have 6 and we hope for more. We'll take 12 if the Lord sends that many. We do not take welfare in any form, and even if something happened to my ability to provide we would die before we accept it. We do not even strain the public school system as we home school our kids.
To those who advocate artificially reduced fertility - religion and spiritual issues aside, have you thought of who is going to take care of you when you are 80? One or two kids is not enough, they can die early or turn out to be bums. Even three will not be enough. The third one that survives and is not a bum will be taxed to death to take care of those who chose to have no kids or only one or two.

. . . to the curriculum would be to ABOLISH it completely. The state has no business whatever "educating" my kids on a topic so sensitive and subject to miscommunication and abuse.

Notwithstanding paleoliberal rants to the contrary, there is no "right" answer, when it comes to teaching sex. What is right for me and my kids would undoubtedly be shouted down by most of the posters above. And ANY "education" involving bananas and condoms would be WAY out of line for my kids.

So why should I be allowed to choose what their kids are taught? And why would anyone agree they should be allowed to choose what mine are taught?

Let's just keep the government out of the sex business entirely.

Frankly, it's WAY beyond both the education industry's and the government's competence.