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Wednesday, October 13, 1993 — The Allen American — Page 9A
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Financial Director Advertising Director Circulation Director
Tim Watterson, Managing Editor/News
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• The truth is: no guy would use
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And yet there are those who
Valerie
BARNA
Commentary
But still parents stall. They cling
to hope that all teen-agers — or at
least their own — will forego sex
or,if need be, abandon it.
Teach abstinence only, some pa-
rents say; even mentioning condoms
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would argue teen-agers should be 1 here s no reason to believe teen- strong dose 21a Ch tion Mir.
taught still another reason to avoid agers in Dallas suburbia are any dif- tie Prudence an old Christian vir-
condoms: they do not provide a ferent than their peers statewide Aristotle, and later Thomas Aqui-
100-percent guarantee against get- Despite all our teachings and all pas in Summer Theolovica defined
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lieve condoms are no defense. agers talked a lot about sex. But it applying to the an.
, Nothing could be further from the was mostly just talk. The consequ- 4P 8 ^ ′ Claq<0c chaula +01 -
truth, cram to a 1990 Youth Risk ences inansiety, suit andlost repu- C And EMar: what’s been missing in Classes should teach abstinence, not preach contraceptives
and Behavior Survey conducted by But now teen-agers act out. arguments about the condom s place "Don t leave home without it.
the State of Texas, 75 percent of Pre-marital sex in America is no in AIDS education.at is the message teen-agers
12th-grade boys and 59 percent of longer taboo. The social onus has , Everyone, sees the deadly threat are gleaning from some area educa-
12th-grade girls say they are having been removed. The entertainment to the nation s youth posed by AIDS, ors and the educators aren’t refer-
sexual intercourse. industry saw to that. Teen-agers In one area high school, the admi- ring to a credit card. They are talking
+ Perhaps the schools’ anti-condom have become imitators of what they nistration knows of at least eight al out a condom. This message,
Message is taking hold: 36 percent of see in their pop-culture world. It’s AIDS cases among students. a ong with a failure to properly teach
those 12th-grade boys and 21 per- become a matter of life imitating art, And it3 going to get worse. Karen an abstinence-based sex education
cent of the girls said condoms were rather than art imitating life. Campbell, executive director of the Program, is contributing to the en-
used in their last experience of sex- Youthful sex activity is AIDS Interfaith of Northeast Texas, angerment of generations of teens.
ual intercourse. everywhere. has predicted that one of every 25 , Any parent who isn t concerned
Collin County residents will be HIV- about sexual promiscuity among
positive by the year 2000. teens is in denial and has his head in
the sand. That is a dangerous place
Turn to BARNA, Page 10A to be. now more than ever.
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SANDY
MANNING
Commentary
— with condoms” when asked “What
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ing to some studies. And while con-
doms may offer some protection
from pregnancy, the fact that the
AIDS virus is 450 times smaller than
As few as 15 years ago, the main a sperm makesthe evidence on con-
concern for parents who considered doms reported by Consumer Re-
teens having sex was pregnancy — ports even more alarming. That
and with' more than 1 million teen magazine reported that some of the
pregnancies each year it is a problem condoms they examined through an
on the increase even today. There is electron microscope contained holes
today, however, a more terrifying 10 times larger than the size of the
shadow looming across our land — AIDS virus and 25 times larger than
the possibility our children might the hepatitis-B virus. That isn’t the
contract AIDS. only problem with condoms.
According to a report issued by Dr- Nicholas Fiumara, director of
the House Committee on Children the Massachusetts Department of
and Families, AIDS cases among Public Health, writing in the New.
teens and young adults has in- England Journal of Medicine warned
creased 77 percent in the last two that because a condom only protects
years. During that time there were the part ofthe anatomy it covers, it
9,000 new cases of AIDS in the 13- is “useless” against gonorrhea and
24 year-old age group. It is predicted syphilis. Said Dr. Malcolm Potts,
that in this year alone, 3 million teens president of Family Health Interna-
and young adults will get a sexually tional: “Telling a person who en-
transmitted disease (STD). How can gages in high-risk behavior to use a
this happen when so much has been condom is like telling someone who
taught about how to prevent the is driving drunk to wear a seat belt.”
spread of those diseases — AIDS What can we do?
included? The message is clear. We have
Our children are continuing to got to eliminate the term “safe sex”
contract and spread sexually trans- from our sex education vocabulary
mitted diseases because the fear of and do everything we can to coun-
those diseases has been pacified by teract the damage the use of that
the nonsence of “safe sex.” What term — and its perceived meaning
they have wrongly deduced from b7 teens — has done to our youth,
what they are presently being taught However, before we can do any-
is if they use a condom they are thing to turn the tide in the increase
practicing “safe sex” and are pro- of sexual activity among teens, we
tected, not only from pregnancy but must incorporate the teaching of
from STD’s — AIDS included — as acceptable moral values with any cli-
well. They have been taught there is nical instruction on sex education,
no adverse consequence from en- To accomplish this, we must stop
gaging in sexual activity as long as equating moral education with reli-
they do it with condoms. As a result, gion and labeling anyone who advo-
our kids are dying. cates restraint as a religious fanatic.
Many parents who have' been Administrators must be con-
opposed to the teaching of condom vinced that while many people have
use have been misunderstood. For spiritual convictions that encompass
some, the teaching of condom use, a stringent moral code — including
when done truthfully, can be an sexual abstinence outside marriage
acceptable portion of an abstinence- it is possible forthose people, and
based sex education program. But others, to be an advocates of an
let’s make sure the truth is being abstinance-based sex education
taught and that we concentrate the program without being, as columnist
bulk of the emphasis in any sex William Rasberry said, “automatical-
education program on the teaching Y eligible for membership in the Flat
of techniques and reasons to remain Earth Society.”
abstinent. It is our responsibility to Noone believes that sexual ignor-
make sure the information our chil- ance promotes abstinence, but it is
dren receive is correct.’ impossible to properly educate our
Area educators say they are children about sexual activity with-
teaching the failure rate of condoms, out teaching the morality and con-
Why then, in a random sampling of sequences of promiscuity — and we
75 teens — 25 from an area senior must do this beginning as early as
high (11th and 12th graders) and 25 grade six and reinforce the informa-
each from two separate high schools tion at every grade level that fol-
(ninth and 10th graders) did 100 per- lows.
cent of those asked respond “sex Some educators and parents alike
scoff that stressing abstinence is un-
realistic and won’t work because
kids just won’t do it. Well, from here
it’s clear that the promotion of con-
traceptives and “safe sex” is what
isn’t working. Our children are more
sexually active than ever. As a re-
sult, the incidence of teen pregnancy
and the rate of increase of sexually
transmitted diseases continues to
skyrocket. Why not try a new
approach?
To help combat the rise in those
figures we must take the responsi-
bility for setting an example for the
young people of our nation. Let’s
face it, our kids aren’t learning moral
courage, fidelity, self-restraint or
responsibility because we as a socie-
ty have stopped living by those stan-
dards.
It is time to encourage educators,
and administrators to take an objec-
tive look at the many abstinence-
based curriculums being widely used
across the country. Those programs
teach that sex in the wrong context
will have unfortunate consequences.:
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