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Originally Posted by BarryRX
Hi Rubicon, I obviously misinterpreted your post. We are truly living in a very different world today. People readily live together and have children without ever intending to marry. Young boys and girls appear to be sexually active at a much younger age. But I still remember the days when condoms were only sold behind the counter in my Dads drugstore, and women were shamed for the same behavior that men were proud of. Just imagine how many more single mothers there would be if girls still believed that "if we do it standing up, you won't get pregnant". You are right that there seems to be a moral decay in our society, but the root cause is not knowledge and power (sex ed and access to birth control).
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BarryRX: The problem with America today is that we cannot have a serious national conversation about anything. People are so invested in their positions that you can't get them to listen.
The issue here is "world has changed" but it hasn't people are in America have moved from a push for rights into the 60's to a entitlement on everything and with responsibility etc. Merit, sacrifice working out problems on their own has long been forgotten.
It causes me a furrow brow when someone says sex education is needed because all kids have sex. So what we do is teach kids how to have sex instead of offering alternatives and/or ways to deflect it until the person can be responsible for their act. Kids view sex as if it were a hand shake hooking up on a continuum.
In past years and generation abstinence was a way of life. Getting to know a person working on the relationship preparing to support a family were essential and they solidified relationships
I missed the 60's because I married young, was working and going to college at night to build a life for my family. No time to drop out get high, protest because I was trying to survive.
I am praying that this youngest generation has taken stock of each successive generation since the baby boomers and has figured out what works and what doesn't work and what does