They are seven and eight and they are flirtatious. We go with them and address the issue to make sure they know what they are talking about.So that's all right then.
Yesterday, the same paper reported on how £150m plan has failed to cut teenage pregnancies. The £150 million has been spent on the notorious Teenage Pregnancy Unit. The headline figures from the TPU show a small decline in teenage pregnancy "rates" - but there is actually an increase in the number of teenage pregnancies. Critics of the figures have pointed out that the rates can fall where there is an increase in population, especially in the population of Muslims "where teenage pregnancy is rare" - i.e. where there is sound moral education for teenagers.
To get some idea of why children are becoming sexualised at an early age and why £150 million has done nothing useful to reduce teenage pregnancy rates, it is worth having a look at another article from the Telegraph about a book for PSHE (Personal, Social and Health Education) produced by Coordination Group Publications. Alternatively, have a look at the unit descriptors for the Channel 4 DVD All about us: Living and Growing - a programme that is used in at least one Catholic school to my knowledge:
Unit 1: For Ages 5-7If some old bloke on a park bench showed children how to masturbate, he would be lucky if the police got to him before their parents did. Nevertheless, campaigners against this kind of sex-education are routinely dismissed as cranks and extremists. They may begin to find some allies outside the Catholic sector as parents become aware of the actual content of these materials. In 2003, parents of children at a non-Catholic school in Dagenham protested vigorously and got the programme banned, saying it was "virtually pornographic". In Scotland, North Lanarkshire Council, East Renfrewshire Council and the Western Isles Council have all banned the programme as unsuitable for use in schools.
* Differences
* How Did I Get Here? (Contains animation of the sexual organs)
* Growing Up
Unit 2: For Ages 7-9
* Changes
* How Babies Are Made (Contains animation of sexual intercourse)
* Growing Up (Contains footage of a live birth)
Unit 3: For Ages 9-11
* Girl Talk
* Boy Talk (Contains information on erections, wet dreams and masturbation. There is an animated sequence showing ejaculation)
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I hope you don't mind, I lifted this piece for our parish blog
http://marymagdalen.blogspot.com/
I always enjoy reading HC
You are most welcome, Ray and thanks for your comment. St Mary Magdalen now added to the blogroll!
'Just another brick in the wall' Fr Tim. Sad, very sad to see that society continues to rob children of their innocence with this diabolical 'sex-ed' - despite all the evidence over the last thirty years.
The kids are bombarded from all sides pornographic TV, pop-music, dysfunctional celebrities, papers and magazines.
Add to that the many cases of parents who are so 'open minded' that their brains are falling out, mums who dress their girls like prostitutes 'prosti-tots' as they're called in the States and dads who open-up 'Page-3' pornography at the breakfast table, and then they look ahocked and puzzled when their kids come home from school having been caught playing sex-games.
Well, what a surprise.
Then as if that isn't enough, the kids go to school where they set a 'teacher' or 'nurse' in front of a class of 6-8 year olds to tell them all about sexual intercourse, how all the 'bits' work and play them graphic, pornographic in fact, animations on 'how it's done'.
AND THEN YOU SIT BACK AND WONDER WHAT ON EARTH HAS GONE WRONG!!!!
It really doesn't need a rocket scientisit to figure this one out. When I was a child we saw Cowboy and Indian films on the TV. Guess what??? In school the following Monday we'd all be playing Cowboys and Indians in the playground!
I read The Eagle and Superman comics - yep, we'd all be saving the world from Martians in the playground games.
Our kids are being fed a constant diet of sex so they are going to act it out - with dire consequences as the sickening UK Governments own statistics show all too clearly.
The answer is simple - STOP THE SEX-ED. There are plenty on alternatives. Clean up the media and educate parents.
What makes me really angry though -read the Telegraph article towards the end, is when the Brooke Advisory Service, Marie Stopes 'charity' (abortion-monger), IPPF or whatever spokesperson talks about 'these young MEN and young WOMEN' etc..
For Heaven's sake THESE ARE CHILDREN NOT MINI-ADULTS!!!!!
'They need more information and counselling' continues this idiot, - ye gods! when will these pornographers be shut down for good so their peddling of child-abuse will finally come to an end.
Parents - WAKE UP!!!!
Your children are at serious risk from having 'adult notions' indoctrinated into their innocent minds at way too early an age by 'agencies' who want to manipulate YOUR kids into becoming the next generation of consumers of their goods - pornography, condoms and contraceptive pills, morning after pill, abortions and STD services.
And then you wonder where it all ends - divorce, damaged family life, STD's, HIV and AIDS, infertile young men and women, damaged minds, unhappy individuals incapable of forming loving relationships.
And guess what - this isn't only happening to Catholics!
PS - Just a small point - did you notice the 'Flirt Now' ads on the Telegraph.co.uk site. Yes, on the same page as the article we are talking about. Pot calling the kettle black?????
Yes but of course it is ok for us to watch a foetus being ripped out of a womb and other frightening images!
I entirely agree, although if I had children I'd rather they were left to get on with their sex-games by themselves without being interfered with by Birmingham Council.
And of course one such anti-sex ed crank and/or extremist was Pope Pius XI in Divini Illius Magistri. And unfortunately he is now "routinely dismissed" by the Catholic Church herself because of his condemnation of ecumenism in Mortalium Animos.
Luke - yes, you are right.
Foetus being ripped out of its mothers womb = abortion. Appalling.
As for other frightening images - well how about the images of 9/11, the bombings in London last year, suicide bombings in Iraq and Israel, sick horror movies, Terminator, pornography, dying/starving children in Africa, violent computer games, etc... etc... ALL FREELY AVAILABLE TO VIEW VIA ANY MEDIA METHOD YOU CAN THINK OF. When it comes to abortion everyone runs for the hills screaming 'Oh it's so horrible'. Why???
Why is it that we are all so 'terrified' and frightened of facing the truth - that abortion is a legalistic euphemism for 'baby killing'.
However painful it may be for many individuals, themselves hurt terribly by abortion we must face up to the fact that unless society begins to recognise the 'abortion holocaust' of the last 40 years for what it is then human beings will become even more desensitised from whom we are as 'Children of God'.
Each and every one of us is made in the image of God with an inalienable right to life and dignity.
The important thing is that we need to care desperately for those that have been hurt in this way and offer these individuals every assistance in coming to terms with their emotional (and sometimes physical also) grief and distress. There is great work being done in the UK in this field by a number of organisations. So much more needs to be done and could be done were we to change minds and attitudes of people in general who simply do not understand just what abortion is and what it does.
Jesus offers each and every one of us forgiveness no matter how grave the sin, provided we approach Him with a contrite heart and a genuine desire for forgiveness. That peace of heart and soul that those affected by abortion seem unable to find can ONLY be found in Jesus Christ.
The Pro-Life movement exists - to educate and inform people as to what is going on - what the abortionists DO NOT WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW. If children in schools can be taught via so called Pan-Sexual Sex-Ed at 6-8 years old what homosexuality is or the mechanics of sex, or how to put-on condoms then WHY IN HEAVEN'S NAME are we hiding the truth about the OUTCOME of these actions - TEENAGE PREGNANCIES, ABORTIONS, STD's, DAMAGED KIDS etc....
Surely you must agree that the argument has to be balanced. At the moment the argument 'balance' is way off kilter and that's a problem.
Abortion is NOT an issue upon which anyone wants to point fingers at others or somehow 'demonise' anyone who has had an abortion or been party to an abortion. No, that is not the game plan here.
Sadly what is done is done, but the lives of the girl or woman and boy or man (also hurting in many situations) are equally precious and of intrinsic value to God.
There is always hope for a renewal of life through forgiveness, as Jesus always walks by our side day by day just waiting for us to turn to Him.
Oliver - I think (hope) you will change your mind about these issues dramatically when you have children. Until then your comments really don't stack up to much!
Luke; National Guidelines on PHSE which is taught in most secondary schools say teenagers should be taught 'health risks of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use, early sexual activity, contraception and pregnancy'.
Well considering over 13,000 16 year old girls became pregnant in 2004 and around 50% aborted their baby (60% in the case of 14 year olds) then the reality of abortion, often used as a back up to contraception, should be part of their education. After all it is a womans right to know what is happening to her body, however horrible.
I don't know why bunty thinks having babies is horrible. Maybe I'm not one to judge!
And for george's information, I couldn't care less what people think of my opinions. On the other hand, the "opinions" of the Holy Father do, I think, often tend to "stack up" quite neatly.
Errr - a bit of misunderstanding here, I think. Bunty is referring to abortion as horrible, not birth. George thought Oliver was advocating children be allowed to engage freely in sex-games. I think Oliver's point was that even that would be better than Birmingham Council's "inappropriate behaviour team" going in to explain it all to them.
(Do I get to inherit the earth now? - Oh no, that was the meek. Blast!)
Oliver, I could not see through your dry cynical wit in your recent post on this issue.
Thanks for mentioning Pope Pius X1 and his encyclical Divini Illius Magistri. I had not studied any thing written by this Pope until this weekend - after your post on Fr Tim's blog.
I have gone through the above document all too quickly but pulled out the salient points which are quite an eye-opener. The document written in December 1929 could have been written today.
Yes - it warns the faithfull - parents, clergy, teachers anyone who has any responsibility for Catholic Education to be vigilant against the onslaught of secularism and paganism. Pope Pius X1 especially warns against 'sex education' for all the right reasons - and this is 1929! Yikes!
Personally I wil get to grips with this document as there is so much to take in. I started reading through Mortalium Animos but had to consign this 'for a another day' as again there is so much to take in.
I agree with you Oliver - the Holy Fathers words and opinions DO stack-up, apologies for misunderstanding your intentions - just make yourself clearer next time! Ha! Beam me up Scottie!
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