Kidscape response to NHS Sheffield "Pleasure" leaflet
The other day I asked whether Kidscape might have a view on the dreadful leaflet "Pleasure" produced by NHS Sheffield. (See: More taxpayer-funded sex-ed filth) Peter Bradley, the Deputy Director of Kidscape, has written as follows:
We might have one or two differences on what constitutes appropriate discussion of moral issues, information and sexual health and relationship options but it is most encouraging that the respected child-protection charity, Kidscape, which focuses particularly on preventing bullying, has taken such a robust and sensible view on the "Pleasure" leaflet. Michelle Elliott pointed out thatKidscape certainly have a view on the "Pleasure" leaflet produced in Sheffield. Michele Elliott has already spoken out about this on Radio Sheffield - she made Kidscape's view loud and clear. In summary - parts of the leaflet provide young people with ridiculous, irresponsible advice that may lead young people on a potential sexual path of misery and harm. This is a frequent message adults tell us about on reflection in later, more mature years.
How about a leaflet exploring the necessary skills for teenagers to say to say "No". Would the NHS fund this? With high rates of teenage pregnancy, Chlamydia and other S.T.I.'s it is incredible the same old messages are recycled, sexed up and promoted. If the professional messages don't change how can we expect young people's sexual activity to change? After 20 years of working in the sexual health field I have seen for myself how it is far too easy for workers to hand out free condoms to children without providing accurate information or the opportunity to discuss the moral issues many young people seek to discuss but workers do not provide. Don't get me wrong, young people should be given accurate up to date information around sexual health and relationship options - but they must also be able to make an informed choice based on accurate, thought provoking information which is inclusive for all.
"An orgasm a day keeps the doctor away" (Stated in leaflet) - my advice - "Stick to apples".
"Young people under 16 should not be having sex... We know they do, but we should not encourage it."
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Peter Bradley - Deputy Director of Kidscape makes perfect sense in what he says, especially in light of the fact that he states he has 20 years experience in this field and has essentially seen how inadequate the 'professional messages' are.
I agree entirely. Over forty years of peddling the same old message of so called 'safe sex' nothing has changed. In fact the STD and teenage pregnancy situation is out of control in the UK!
It is high time someone makes a point of this in high places and starts to change the old die-hard attitudes which are selling our children down the swanny! The NHS in cahoots with the FPA etc... are simply fanning the flames of and actively promoting promiscuous behaviour in under-age children! They cannot be trusted and don't seem to have an ounce of common sense between the lot of them!
So Mr Bradley, will YOU please do something!!! Perhaps start by slamming a great big file with all the dreadful statistics about this country's stupid and outdated sex education programmes on Prime Minister Brown's desk. Make him read the grim facts and he will see reason. Scrap the sex-ed!
Let's instead instigate Chastity and 'Say NO' programmes into our schools. Let's shout loud and clear 'Enough of this decline into an abyss of moral relativism'! Give our kids greater aspirations that those shown in sordid TV soaps and teenage magazines. If we carry on as we are the 'sexual bullying' will get progressively worse and let's just stop for a moment and ponder as to what the 13 year old 'sexual bully' of today will become in a few years time! What kind of society are we allowing to be engineered for our future, through these mad and highly irresponsible 'have an orgasm a day' mantras???
If it isn't already too late, before another generation finds it impossible to settle into monogamous, married and family oriented relationships.
Our once great nation was built on nothing other than simple family life, honest hard working people, the salt of the earth who would sacrifice all and work their hands to the bone to support their families, generation after generation - why can't the politicians see that?
The family has to be held up in the highest esteem as the basic unit of a healthy society and it is every government's duty to enshrine the sacrosanct nature of family life, consisting of father, mother and children, into the law of the land and encourage, nurture and help it at every step.
When you have a nation that is happy in itself because of the familial community life and spirit it is founded upon then all the other problems WILL become history!
I challenge anyone to provide an alternative utopian world vision that excludes the family at its core.
I came across a very good website
www.humanlife.org
They were advertising a magazine
Just for Girls
Just for Guys
Why don't they hand this out to our kids in schools?
Maybe it would take someone some day to actually stand up in front of a class of teenagers and tell them exactly how disgusting what they get up to is...
Patricius - the onus is on us as parents, mentors, teachers and example setters. The teenagers merely soak up the 'zeitgeist' which has been set in motion by us the adults. To be honest they are blameless, merely doing what they perceive is the 'normal accepted and promoted way of behaviour' of society at large.
Let's face it you only have to switch on the TV, read a daily paper, pick up a glossy magazine to realise how far down the tubes we have already sunk.
It's not teenagers who have written the idiotic garbage being distributed by Sheffield NHS. It's not teenagers who kill unborn infants in their mother's wombs, nor teenagers who distribute condoms and morning after pills in schools!
Four of my children are teenagers and bring their friends over constantly to the house. The media loves to whip up hysteria and labels ALL teenagers as ignorant, filthy tearaways. The truth, in my experience Patricius, is very far from that.
If adults behaved themselves, set the right moral standards AND LIVED BY THEM, things would be a lot different.
Where do we start is a good question, but I would say that if we all made a start to improve matters in our own homes and within our own families, little by little things would change.
It is very helpful to ponder on the family life of Jesus, Mary and Joseph - the most Holy Family and our best example.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph - pray for us and help our youngsters grow into the great men and women that you had planned from the beginning.
How right you are George, why are we blaming our youngsters for the sins of their fathers.
There is good money to be made by corrupting the young, satan always looks after his own,
however
'If anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a huge millstone tied around his neck and to be thrown into the sea'. Mark 9:42
Please give our youngsters a chance, all this sexual activity they are encouraged to partake in will destroy them and the human race. The spread of STDs has reached disastrous numbers and guess what many of them make you sterile (good form of population control).
I would like to recommend Challenge Team UK, a team of well trained young people who go into secondary schools with presentations encouraging young people to save sex until marriage. They have reached 75,000 teenagers so far, many of them who have never heard this seriously suggested before.
This is not adults preaching at children, but young people talking to young people - and believe me, they listen, and many take heed.
You can find details at www.teamchallengeuk.org.
Stuart Cunliffe, Manchester.
Stuart - many thanks indeed. That looks excellent. I'll give it a plug.
But you got the URL wrong. Here is the correct link: www.challengeteamuk.org
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