Comments on: What we don’t know about STIs will kill us http://www.northbynorthwestern.com/2008/09/11490/what-we-dont-know-will-kill-us/ A daily newsmagazine of campus and culture for Northwestern University. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:08:50 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Dee http://www.northbynorthwestern.com/2008/09/11490/what-we-dont-know-will-kill-us/comment-page-1/#comment-57385 Dee Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:43:10 +0000 http://www.northbynorthwestern.com/?p=11490#comment-57385 It's time that the US gets off of its prudish, ignorant, denying butts and faces the reality that kids are engaging in things that their parents don't wish for them to. Sex at what most adults consider age inappropriate behavior has little to do with morals and more to do with hormones and brain development. The whole country is going to pay the future price of this national denial. Mothers should be raising their daughters to be progressive and forward thinking, that they have control over their bodies as well as moral development and that the two go hand in hand. It’s time that the US gets off of its prudish, ignorant, denying butts and faces the reality that kids are engaging in things that their parents don’t wish for them to. Sex at what most adults consider age inappropriate behavior has little to do with morals and more to do with hormones and brain development. The whole country is going to pay the future price of this national denial.

Mothers should be raising their daughters to be progressive and forward thinking, that they have control over their bodies as well as moral development and that the two go hand in hand.

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