The busy bodies just never quit. In today's paper, on the front page, there was an article headlined "TV shows can offer teens sex education, research suggests." It sounds to me like Hillary Clinton and Joycelyn Elders concocted that research. This article started out, "Teenagers can get sex education as well as laughs by watching TV series such as 'Friends,' a new study found." I have no doubt that teens who watch "Friends" and many of the other prime time series do get a sex education, but is it the education that most parents desire?This "it takes a village" approach to everything by the elitist liberal busy bodies is getting to be more than I can stomach. All aspects of a child's education, including sex education, is the responsibility, and the privilage of the parents, and the parents only. The reason that we are failing at that today is because these liberal busy bodies have, over the years, convinced far too many lazy, irresponsible parents that education should be left to everyone but the parents. "Big Brother" will take care of everything for us.
The crediting of these trash TV shows with educating our children is the bunk, and to say that TV plays a positive role in a teenager's sexual development is proof that the liberal way is full of malarkey. Just look at many of the teens today and you will see that the "it takes a village" system is a failure. A huge percentage of teens today are being treated for some psychological (real or imagined) disorder. At the same time there has been a substantial reduction in the moral standards of America. Far too many teens are rude, and inconsiderate. Maybe that reduction in standards has been caused by the many parents who have forfeitted their responsibility to educate their children, and have left it up to the busy bodies to put it all into "perspective" for them.
X X X X X X X X XDuke and I are about recovered from the weekend. It was a blast and we both enjoyed ourselves partaking of all the festivities on Friday night and Saturday. Thanksgiving (23 days) is next, followed by Christmas and New Years. The stores are already full of Christmas stuff. It used to be that you did not see Christmas stuff until AFTER Thanksgiving, now it precedes Halloween. I almost wish I could go to sleep and wake up on January 1st '04.
The lounging Duke
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