[Margaret Pilkington]

I am sure that we all realise that current youngsters didn't(as they seem to think) invent sex.

I know that my Grandparents indulged in premarital sex........they were married whislt my Grandma was in an 'interesting' condition......and their first son was born six months after they were married.

I am pretty sure that the youth of that era were not as promiscuous though.
maybe that was because there were less facilities to obtain contraception, and that having a baby outside of marriage was something which had a definite social stigma attached to it.
Today children seem to be educated to think that a sex life is their 'right'....and while I do not personally want to get into the ethics or morals of this view.....I think that any 'right' has to be balanced by responsibilities.

We are fostering hedonistic values in our youngsters......an 'anything you want, you can have it' mentality. We do not teach restraint. These attitudes to morals and ethics spill over into other parts of our childrens lives. Children also learn by example and there may be elements of society today, who children are influenced by more than their parents. Monkey see, monkey do.

Now I'll duck and watch out for the flying bricks.