As school boards across the country eagerly embrace President Obama’s Healthy Youth Act – a new law that teaches young children, as early as kindergarten, about contraceptives and “safe sex” – parents in Helena, Mont., continue to push back against explicit, age-inappropriate curriculum.
Dr. Miriam Grossman – a board-certified child, adolescent, adult psychiatrist and acclaimed author – was invited by a grandmother to address more than 600 parents on Sept. 1, to share the facts about explicit sexual education curriculum and the harm it could pose to children not ready to process the information.
During the two-hour meeting, Grossman said:
“I would not want my children exposed to what’s in there,” she said. “A child thinks different, experiences the world different than an adult. A child is not a miniature adult. Children are vulnerable in a way we as adults have forgotten.”
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“Anyone who believes condoms will greatly reduce risk is living in la-la land.”
In a follow-up interview with Family News in Focus, Grossman discussed the common myths in sex education.
“It is not what it promises to be, it’s not comprehensive, it’s not science-based, and it certainly doesn’t give a strong no-nonsense abstinence message,” she said. “These are all things that are beyond debate, they are not really up for discussion. It is hard science, statistics, information about physiology and biology.”
Grossman said students are being informed about a variety of sexual expressions, but the serious risks of those activities are conveniently left out of the discussion.
Grossman cautioned parents – in Helena and across the country – to ask questions, find out who authored the curricula, who supports it, etc.
“They should look at what they actually tell young people. Go to SIECUS.org and look at the material that they’ve written, created for young people and also at the websites that they send young people to,” she added. “SIECUS is promoting sexual freedom and sexual rights – not sexual health.”
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Read more about Dr. Miriam Grossman.
Receive a FREE chapter of “You’re Teaching My Child What?”
Learn more about the Montana Family Policy Council.
Watch the FOX News video, “Too Young for Sex Ed?”
Watch the 2007 ABCNews video with then Senator Obama.
Read SIECUS president Debra Haffner’s “Yes, Sex Education in Kindergarten.”
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