Comments on: Debate Questions on Reproductive Health? http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2007/07/debate-questions-on-reproductive-health Daily dose of women's health news and media analysis Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:46:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Anna Clark http://www.ourbodiesourblog.org/blog/2007/07/debate-questions-on-reproductive-health/comment-page-1#comment-121 Anna Clark Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:18:24 +0000 http://ourbodies.s467.sureserver.com/?p=297#comment-121 In the debate, a Planned Parenthood employee asked if candidates had talked to their children about sex in a comprehensive, medically accurate, and age-appropriate way. All the candidates who answered (including Edwards and Obama) focused on protecting their kids from predators. That is, they said they talked to their kids about unappropriate touching and wanted their kids to turn to them if anyone tried to hurt them. All well and good. But I was disappointed that they took this fearful angle, rather than making the healthy sexuality a foundation of their conversations with their kids. In the debate, a Planned Parenthood employee asked if candidates had talked to their children about sex in a comprehensive, medically accurate, and age-appropriate way. All the candidates who answered (including Edwards and Obama) focused on protecting their kids from predators. That is, they said they talked to their kids about unappropriate touching and wanted their kids to turn to them if anyone tried to hurt them.

All well and good. But I was disappointed that they took this fearful angle, rather than making the healthy sexuality a foundation of their conversations with their kids.

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