Tis a long one, you have been warned.
Well now. I see this topic is back in the news again.
Pupils to be forced to have sex education under age of consent
Parents are to be forced to allow their children to have sex education before the age of consent, the Government announced today.
Under the new laws, when children reach 15 their parents will lose the right to withdraw them from sex education.
At present parents can remove their children from lessons about sex until they are 19.
Now like a lot of people, I have a real problem with this new legislation. Until my children are 16 yrs old they are my responsibility, both legally and morally. Once they hit 16 the responsibility starts to move from me to them.
At 16 they can have sex. They can get married with parental consent. They can sign up for the Armed Forces (with parental consent?). They can ride a moped.
At 17 they can drive a car. They can have sex. They can get married with parental consent. They can sign up for the Armed Forces. They can ride a moped.
At 18 they can buy booze n fags (although there is no legal age regarding drinking or smoking). They can have sex. They can sign up for the Armed Forces and fight on the front line. They can ride a moped. They can buy a house.
At no point in this process does the moral or legal responsibility pass from me to my children via the state*.
Until now.
What this Legislation does is force me, the parent, to hand my children over to the State for one year. One year in which I cannot prevent the State from teaching my children anything they want to (yeah right, like they are going to stop at Sex-ed – LARF, see Glomal Warbling, meat eating etc). The tricky thingy is, I cannot find out if my children (at the age of 15 and deemed adult enough to receive full on sex-ed) can ‘opt out’ if they want to. If they can’t ‘opt out’, and I can’t ‘opt them out’ then surely sex-ed-ucashun will become sex-in-doctrination.
Anyhoo, this is all really a smoke screen. It is a way for me to introduce a topic that I had no other way of introducing. A topic that has really upset/scared me. Seriously.
I picked Big Squid (11 years old) up from Big School and whilst driving home she filled me in on the latest gossip. We had a bit of a chat about lessons, food etc and then she dropped the bombshell.
‘Ozzy has a video on her phone that shows a woman and a tiger’.
Ozzy is 12 years old and she has a video of a woman having sex with a tiger on her phone.
I was mortified (I have seen the video) and texted Ozzies Mum. According to Ozzies Mum, my 11 yr old daughter made it all up.
To be honest, I was going to rant long and hard about this but I am so horrified that someone could accuse my 11 yr old daughter of having beastiality day dreams that I am stunned*.
*Let’s keep it simple folks, obviously there are lots of times that the state has to intervene.
*I apologisie, I tried to tie these two points together but I failed.
Yep you’ve hit the nail on the head, once they’ve got a foot in the door they’ll use this legislation for all sorts of propaganda. I doubt “Call me Dave’s” mob will do anything about it either.
There are days I’m glad my kids are all grown up.
Can you find the woman/tiger video on YouTube? It sounds fascinating.
Parental consent is required to join the forces until you are 18.
I am getting rather annoyed at having to counter all the green propaganda that youngest is being submerged in. They are now talking about having 2-day multi-disciplinary ‘projects’ – covering environmental issues, disasters and some other area of indoctrination. Still, if I can just get the scepticism sufficiently deeply embedded, I’ll have probably done my job.
QM: “Yep you’ve hit the nail on the head, once they’ve got a foot in the door they’ll use this legislation for all sorts of propaganda.”
The foot has been in the door and the door has been prised off its hinges long since.
“Ozzy is 12 years old and she has a video of a woman having sex with a tiger on her phone.
I was mortified (I have seen the video) ”
Link! Link!