ShieldWife
Marchioness
True, though I mention entertainment because it has the potential to influence people in the same way that pornography can.I'm not even just talking entertainment - I have little doubt that most industries have questionable morality and beliefs and also engage in some questionable practices.
I don’t trust schools to teach sexual morality. In fact, if they taught it, they would probably be teaching out of some book designed in a university sociology department and who knows what crazy stuff that may include.I guess I look at that and come to the opposite conclusion, which is that sex ed should cover those social and psychological aspects as well. Kind of like my gun safety courses, incidentally. I'd also make it so there is more than one class, spread out over a number of years, with subject matter appropriate to the age group.
Absolutely, parents need to step up and not rely on the schools or media to teach their kids important values. Which is one reason why I wouldn’t count on a sex-ed class to counter any potentially negative effects of watching pornography.And this is where parents need to step up to the plate and reassert themselves. Too many of them view school as a form of day care and don't much care what goes on there (until it's too late). Hell, recently there was some congress critter who pushed the idea of making the school day longer so as to be more convenient for parents working the typical 9-5 job (I think they were suggesting 8-6). On the one hand, I am very egalitarian and am not in favor of traditional gender roles being enforced, but on the other, I think people need to take a good hard look at themselves and do what is best for the children when they start having them, because the alternative is that you're a lot more dependent on the schools, and thus the state.
Then again, I am a hard core supporter of home schooling, I home school my own kids, and I advocate for others todo the same - so I wouldn’t suggest any dependence on public schools for anything.