Kids-Sex-Out of Control
Are kids having sex younger and why?
Kids are definitely having sex younger. We actually talked a little bit about this in class today. Someone said that they heard of fifth graders getting caught having sex in the classroom while the substitute teacher left the room. Also something I heard was about a 13 year old girl being pregnant. This is horrific. Think back to when you were in fifth grade. I know that when I was I would never ever think of anything like that. Another incident that I know of was an eighth grade girl getting caught having oral sex on the back of a school bus on a school trip. I wonder how someone could do this… is it peer pressure that influences these kids to do such things? Really I believe it has a lot to do with accessibility of watching sex. Parents aren’t monitoring what their kids are watching on TV or what they are searching or downloading on the internet. And although parents would like to believe their kids aren’t doing it, we all know that kids are looking at pornography on the computer. Kids are pressuring each other to perform the acts they see on the computer or on the TV. When I was kid we didn’t have the internet… I didn’t have a computer until I was in middle school. But these days kids have it all, high speed internet, chat rooms, myspace, and the world wide web, and all sorts of downloading tools where there is nothing blocking them from accessing porn. And kids have access to the internet at the elementary level. These things all have a huge impact on young kids and I think they really do influence kids ideas of sex in a negative way. Something needs to be done… Kids are out of control.
April 16th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
It is ridiculous. Sex is a commodifiable part of our lives. It is in the music, on the television, and in the minds of younger and younger groups of kids. The two issues here that I think need to be addressed are how to protect our children from misrepresentations of sex and how to teach about it in a health way (and as we can see through television and music is not a heathy way).
May 3rd, 2007 at 3:00 pm
I know this is a delayed reaction to your blog, but I was looking for some to comment on and you always have good topics.
Anyway, on to the topic….
I agree with you that I never thought of anything related to sex or oral sex when I was in 5th grade. It’s so insane to me that children know as much as they do about sex at such a young age. Clearly we can’t stop children from hearing information, but I think we need to help with WHAT the information is that they hear so that they’re at least getting correct, accurate information. Parents also can’t be with their children all the time to know what information they’re hearing and to supervise them, but I feel if children had more accurate information they would at least have the chance to be better informed about their decisions. It’s pretty overwhelming to think that some of us may be parents in just a few years and we’ll have to worry about this, but on a totally personal level with the best interest and welfare of our own child in mind.