WARNING! Personal Opinion Ahead...May Piss You Off. You've been Warned
The woman dropped her head into her hands. Images of her daughter flooded her mind. Her 5-year-old daughter, with her messenger bag slung over her shoulder, ready to set off for her first day of school. 11-year-old daughter celebrating her first successful overhand serve in volleyball. Finally, just last year, her 16-year-old daughter, resplendent ( Read more... )
And yes, those books undermine everything the parent is trying to do and putting a rose-colored hue to sexual situation - all in the name of *being realistic* or *allowing readers to identify with their characters*.
You're the first person I know to agree about the guilt aspect because today's world teaches that there isn't/shouldn't be any guilt associated with sex or masturbation, etc. That's old-fashioned or that's just religion imposing guilt on you and you should ignore it. Those people in the world who are huge supporters and "proponents" of abortion also ignore the regret and guilt MOST women feel afterward. Planned Parenthood ignores that and goes out of its way to keep all the aspects and consequences of it from girls. Where's the study on that aspect? Nowhere.
Am I facing it? Of course! Every mother of a teenager faces it. I faced the temptation when I was a teen with my own boyfriends. Hormones are real for everybody. But I also think some parents don't want to face the difficulty and uncomfortableness to talk frankly with their teens - or to teach values from the time they are even younger. Teaching should start years before 13 years old hits. ;-D
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