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Samantha is reading blog comments again. It's the featured blog on Momaroo. The one about birth control. I'm really thankful for my education and for my open BW family. I'm very thankful that I have not let my mom influence me in any opinion I have. Paraphrase of a quote, "I would never let my daughter go on birth control, I would make sure she had condoms for her boyfriend." Was the whole 'condoms are not 100% affective" a scare tactic? Huh. The way I learned it, one form of protection is like Russian Roulette.
Directly quoted from someone who will remain anonymous. "There is a reason that my religion encourages us to get married young, to avoid falling into temptation and committing fornication or adultery. If my daughter or son wants to have sex as a "teenager" which is only a concept in the USA I should add, they can get married."
I've never felt like I've led a very sheltered life. I mean, I live with my conservative mom in a conservative town, but I visited and lived with my dad in Santa Cruz and San Francisco. My BW family is very open about everything and very carefree. I can remember discussing birth control over the toaster as my bagel baked last summer. But, reading these comments (and they are like road kill; I cannot turn away) makes me think I haven't experienced something... I mean, some kind of culture. I mean... the US is the only place where there are teenagers? True, the idea of teenage-dom is quite recent, last hundred years or so when getting a job and getting married at 15 or so stopped being so kosher... but, last time I checked most developed countries believed in teenage-dom. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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| | Posted 7/8/2009 10:57 PM - 13 Views - 4 eProps - 2 comments
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