Possibly my lack of shock was from growing up in a University town.\u00a0 In ad lib remarks, Barack Obama made the statement that he wouldn\u2019t want his daughters punished with a child or an STD if they were to have teenage sex.\u00a0 For me, I took it to mean analogously that if one of his daughters was drunk driving he didn\u2019t want them punished by wrapping their car around a tree and dying.\u00a0 I think it is perfectly natural to not desire the worst case scenario from a poor choice.\u00a0 Most would agree that premarital sex and drunk driving are poor choices.\u00a0 Most would agree these activities can have natural consequences that are undesirable.\u00a0 To say that being pregnant at 15 is undesirable or the rightful consequence (punishment) of a poor choice doesn\u2019t seem to me to be all that remarkable.\u00a0 And while many of us today are sensitive to the term \u2018bastard\u2019 and other descriptors of out of wedlock birth, many of us do not think \u201cCongratulations!\u201d upon hearing of the birth of a child out of wedlock, particularly to a young teenager.<\/p>\n
My memory isn\u2019t always the best on these sort of things, so I\u2019m curious if others remember similar things.\u00a0 I could have sworn we were told not to have sex so we wouldn\u2019t end up with a baby.\u00a0 I could have sworn we were told that if we engaged in irresponsible behavior, we would wind up pregnant, infected with AIDS, getting another STD, and, oh yeah, possibly infected with AIDS.\u00a0 I realize there are many trying to place a greater emphasis on babies being a good thing, but we need to make sure to have a home ready for them.\u00a0 Question for the floor:\u00a0 how was the issue addressed growing up?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Possibly my lack of shock was from growing up in a University town.\u00a0 In ad lib remarks, Barack Obama made the statement that he wouldn\u2019t want his daughters punished with a child or an STD if they were to have teenage sex.\u00a0 For me, I took it to mean analogously that if one of his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mz","category-sex"],"yoast_head":"\n