The Sexualization of Our Children
I don’t know how many of you saw this littel item in the news:
Pardon me, but am I crazy to think we should never have to even think about whether or not an 8 year old’s clothes are “too racy”? The very thought is a wee bit nauseating, after all. But if you check out the link, sure enough, the headline isn’t too far off.
Right after that, I saw this : http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,585108,00.html. I’ll save you some trouble and tell you that it’s a call from the International Planned Parenthood Federation calling on America to rethink explicit sex education for all children age – wait for it – ten and up. That we should think of these kids as “sexual beings”. We need to show sexuality as a “positive force for change and development, as a source of pleasure, an embodiment of human rights and an expression of self.”
You read that right. Kids who are still playing with dolls, forming elementary school friendships, learning to read and write, now require detailed sex ed.
Now, I know that the IPPF has an agenda to push, but this is just plain indoctrination. Read the above sentence carefully: sex isn’t a force for change, but sexuality is. You mean, like homosexuality? Or bisexuality? This is, in my opinion, just evil. Kids of that age simply aren’t capable of understanding sex as part of a healthy relationship according to God’s standards. There are plenty of kids a lot older who have the same trouble. Sex as an “expression of self” is what has led to half the problems of modern society: sex isn’t about self, it’s about a couple bound in marriage.
Educate your children so that they understand the depth and breadth of God’s love for them as expressed by His son, Jesus Christ Our Lord. His Word tells us the appropriate boundaries for sex, and they don’t include ten year olds. Protect your young ones from a media who wants to sell them false idols of every description and lure them into growing up too fast. Self-esteem does not come from wearing the right clothes or acting like adults. It comes first and foremost from knowing they are precious and unique creations of Our Heavenly Father who loves them dearly.
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