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Originally Posted by Nedusa
Agree......we should teach them about Stranger Danger and inappropriate touching. But don't we do that already.
No need to explain "Rape" to an 11 year old is all its graphic gory detail. That would itself be a form of rape... raping the young girls innocence away. Pretty tenuous analogy I know but we have no right to thrust an 11 year old mind into full on sexual deviancy.
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Why do you assume they are going to make it graphic or gory??
I have taught my children from a young age about inappropriate touching, and my daughter and I have discussed and watch documentaries about women all over the world faced with forced marriage and rape. I have never made it graphic or gory.
There is a common sense way to present the topic and to discuss it. Since children seem to be inundated with media sexualization and we are being told teens are becoming sexually active at the age of 12 or earlier... why not let them know that sex at that age is inappropriate, that no one should make you feel like it is ok to have sex so young, and that they have the power to say no or to stop it from happening?