Reply #187: I'm sorry you were never close enough to talk to your daddy...

[JuniperLea]

... about such things. Personally, I asked him where babied came from when I was six, when my mom was pregnant with a younger sibling. He tried to give me just a little information so as not to "freak me out"... but I pressed forward asking more and more questions... and he felt he couldn't lie to me. I finally got the whole story out of him and we have been able to discuss such things openly ever since. I have always talked openly to my kids about sex too. They were pretty damn precocious and asked a lot of questions just like I did... and like my father, I chose not to lie to them, not even by omission. We are very close and there is not a thing they feel they have to keep from me. They have all graduated high school and have all gone to college... two are still in college. I don't see a problem with being open and honest with a kid.

Frankly I find it quite disturbing that you can't see another person's POV or even consider that there are cultures, traditions and belief systems that you are not always going to agree with. That is pretty damn narrow and hardly liberal.