It's quite easy to be cynical in your isolation, cut off from the world. What more can you possibly think than the inherently selfish motives of human nature.

Candles and ponies and dragons and pixies!

I laugh.

     Many parents fear their children having sex -the biological function of reproduction, the production of offspring- at least at a young age. For who would manage to raise a child so young when one is still unable to take care of one's self independently?
     But in an age where contraceptives come in many forms -birth control, condoms, and the ever controversial abortion- thus eliminating the fear of unwanted offspring, sex becomes but an act of great intimacy between two people. It becomes a choice with little but emotionally stirring consequences. Should parents then continue to fear and prohibit their children from having intercourse? Would restricting sex become nothing different from plainly restricting your child from dating or any other intimate freedom of choice?
     Other people treat intercourse as something almost sacred that can only be shared between two people bounded by vows of marriage. It is true that sex is meant to produce young, but any two people can produce offspring married or unmarried and divorce is not uncommon in liberal countries. Those who do wait until marriage to have sex make that choice of their own freedom. People have the freedom to choose what course of actions they wish to take, choices with or without consequences. When the child bearing factor is eliminated from a choice like sex, what happens then?

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/us/21portland.html?ref=us

     Then there's the question of when and how much should your children know about sex?

While there's so much going on at the moment, while there's barely a moment of reprieve,
Getting through now means the memories of a lifetime later.

And so the busyness continues..

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