I'm not going to discuss Palin parenthood skills and any specific question about her family. I want to focus on the question of the effectiveness of abstinence only sex education in schools. Palin is a great supporter of this idea, whose failure is brought to the attention of many more people now with her family's story.
In fact this is actually a really good example that even with the "perfect family settings" teenagers have sex and will continue to have sex. Can we extract that fact for discussing the messages that teenagers get? If we would be able to do just that with the public exposure to the issue that Palin enables there can be a lesson that it can be delivered.
It is not a question of religion or if having sex in high school is a good or bad thing. It is a question of saying sure you should wait with sex as much as you can but if you start having sex do what needed to avoid pregnancy and STDs.
I found Obama's response to the personal Palin situation respectable. There is nothing easier than to drag your opponents through the mud much as they try to do for him. Setting the public debate at an higher level would serve us all as in the end we live, work and interact in the same society. Still it is important to discuss the principal issues for the political debate. For more posts check my other blog here
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