Reply #25: I strongly feel it is the parents responsibility to educate anyway . . .

[DollyM]

When my son was small and the "Good Touch/Bad Touch" program was brought to his school, I opted him out of it. I didn't care what they thought at the school and I'm sure that they did, but this was my responsibility as a parent, not theirs. Maybe that is part of the reason why I have home schooled our son for many years. I have never thought it was the governments responsibility to teach sexuality education to children because it is not an amoral issue. Parents need to impart their own value system to their children. My feeling is that I do want our son to be abstinent until marriage or at least until he is in a committed relationship that seems to be heading that direction. But I have also talked to him about using protection. We live in a small town and the area has many, many teen pregnancies. My son is one of the few in his age group that has not fathered a child. I am proud of him for choosing not to get into a sexual relationship at this point in his life (he is 19). He does truly reflect our values and belief systems and that shows I have done my job as a parent. The government does not make a very good parent on the other hand and they need to stay out of trying to do so.