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Sex Advocates Join With Teachers Union To Take Control From Parents
Abstinence Clearinghouse Press Release
www.abstinence.net
October 8, 2003
The most vocal advocates sex education are teaming up with the nations largest teachers union to urge congress to take control of childrens sex education from parents.
The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) and the National Education Association (NEA) are teaming up once again to advocate for explicit sex education.
SIECUS publishes guidelines for sex education that call for children ages 5 through 8 to be taught about self touch and arousal (pages 29-30), ages 9 through 12 to be taught different ways to seek sexual pleasure other than intercourse (page31), and ages 16 through 18 to be taught about exotic fantasies enhanced by pornographic literature (page 32). The Health Information Network of the NEA has signed their support for these guidelines.
"SIECUS and the NEA say they want parents to be involved, but looking at the facts, it just does not ring true," said Leslee Unruh, president of the Abstinence Clearinghouse. The Abstinence Clearinghouse is an international nonprofit organization that promotes abstinence education and parents as the primary sex educators of their children.
"The NEA and SIECUS were both supportive of a SB71 in California, which was signed last week. That bill took authority away from parents and gave teachers the power to talk explicitly about sex to children of all ages. Parents do not support the messages that SIECUS and the NEA want to force on to their kids," said Unruh, referring to a Zogby survey comparing sex and abstinence education, released in February. When read direct quotes from the SIECUS "Guidelines on Comprehensive Sex Education," the Zogby survey found disapproval rates for the guidelines, with some statements garnering disapproval rates of more than seven in ten parents. The same study showed overwhelming approval (4.5 to 1) for the concepts taught in abstinence education.
"For SIECUS and the NEA to attempt to push parents into giving messages to children that the parents are clearly not supportive of is unconscionable," said Unruh. "Parents do need to talk with their children, but not about SIECUS-style sex. They need to demonstrate love and healthy relationships so that their children can mature into adults that can sustain healthy, lifelong marriages."
"The parent is the advocate of their child," explained Judy Gilliam, a 30-year veteran educator and assistant principal in Fort Wright, Kentucky. "I think we should teach respect for each other and respect for our bodies. I feel it is a parents right to be the primary educator of their child. They have the right to say what should and should not be taught, especially in sex education. The parent knows the child better than any teacher."
The Abstinence Clearinghouse is the largest nonprofit organization dealing with abstinence education and advocacy. The Abstinence Clearinghouse assists educators, medical professionals, parents and youth serving organizations to effectively educate adolescents and unmarried adults on the communication skills, relationship information and factual knowledge necessary to make a commitment to abstain from sexual activity outside of marriage. More information is available at www.abstinence.net.
Heres What You Can Do:
Contact NEA, SIECUS and your Congressmen. Tell them to keep these guidelines away from our public schools and our children.
Tamara Kreinin
President and CEO
SIECUS NY Office
130 West 42nd Street, Suite 350
New York, NY 10036-7802
Phone: 212/819-9770
Fax: 212/819-9776 Reg Weaver
President
NEA
1201 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036-3290
To locate your local U.S. Representative and email a letter, click here.
To write your local U.S. Senator click here.
Check with your school before the beginning of the year and see what type of sex education they teach. Do not allow your child to attend any radical, SIECUS-style sex education classes.
Be your childs primary sex educator.
Work to get an opt-in policy for sex education, not an opt-out policy. (For opt-in, parents must sign permission slips before the child can attend like an off campus field trip. With opt-out, parental permission is assumed.)
Contact the local pro-life pregnancy care center or abstinence program to have them present parent education nights before any sex or abstinence education classes. The Abstinence Clearinghouse can help you identify groups in you area www.abstinence.net.
Sex Advocates Join With Teachers Union To Take Control From Parents
Abstinence Clearinghouse Press Release
www.abstinence.net
October 8, 2003
The most vocal advocates sex education are teaming up with the nations largest teachers union to urge congress to take control of childrens sex education from parents.
The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS) and the National Education Association (NEA) are teaming up once again to advocate for explicit sex education.
SIECUS publishes guidelines for sex education that call for children ages 5 through 8 to be taught about self touch and arousal (pages 29-30), ages 9 through 12 to be taught different ways to seek sexual pleasure other than intercourse (page31), and ages 16 through 18 to be taught about exotic fantasies enhanced by pornographic literature (page 32). The Health Information Network of the NEA has signed their support for these guidelines.
"SIECUS and the NEA say they want parents to be involved, but looking at the facts, it just does not ring true," said Leslee Unruh, president of the Abstinence Clearinghouse. The Abstinence Clearinghouse is an international nonprofit organization that promotes abstinence education and parents as the primary sex educators of their children.
"The NEA and SIECUS were both supportive of a SB71 in California, which was signed last week. That bill took authority away from parents and gave teachers the power to talk explicitly about sex to children of all ages. Parents do not support the messages that SIECUS and the NEA want to force on to their kids," said Unruh, referring to a Zogby survey comparing sex and abstinence education, released in February. When read direct quotes from the SIECUS "Guidelines on Comprehensive Sex Education," the Zogby survey found disapproval rates for the guidelines, with some statements garnering disapproval rates of more than seven in ten parents. The same study showed overwhelming approval (4.5 to 1) for the concepts taught in abstinence education.
"For SIECUS and the NEA to attempt to push parents into giving messages to children that the parents are clearly not supportive of is unconscionable," said Unruh. "Parents do need to talk with their children, but not about SIECUS-style sex. They need to demonstrate love and healthy relationships so that their children can mature into adults that can sustain healthy, lifelong marriages."
"The parent is the advocate of their child," explained Judy Gilliam, a 30-year veteran educator and assistant principal in Fort Wright, Kentucky. "I think we should teach respect for each other and respect for our bodies. I feel it is a parents right to be the primary educator of their child. They have the right to say what should and should not be taught, especially in sex education. The parent knows the child better than any teacher."
The Abstinence Clearinghouse is the largest nonprofit organization dealing with abstinence education and advocacy. The Abstinence Clearinghouse assists educators, medical professionals, parents and youth serving organizations to effectively educate adolescents and unmarried adults on the communication skills, relationship information and factual knowledge necessary to make a commitment to abstain from sexual activity outside of marriage. More information is available at www.abstinence.net.
Heres What You Can Do:
Contact NEA, SIECUS and your Congressmen. Tell them to keep these guidelines away from our public schools and our children.
Tamara Kreinin
President and CEO
SIECUS NY Office
130 West 42nd Street, Suite 350
New York, NY 10036-7802
Phone: 212/819-9770
Fax: 212/819-9776 Reg Weaver
President
NEA
1201 16th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036-3290
To locate your local U.S. Representative and email a letter, click here.
To write your local U.S. Senator click here.
Check with your school before the beginning of the year and see what type of sex education they teach. Do not allow your child to attend any radical, SIECUS-style sex education classes.
Be your childs primary sex educator.
Work to get an opt-in policy for sex education, not an opt-out policy. (For opt-in, parents must sign permission slips before the child can attend like an off campus field trip. With opt-out, parental permission is assumed.)
Contact the local pro-life pregnancy care center or abstinence program to have them present parent education nights before any sex or abstinence education classes. The Abstinence Clearinghouse can help you identify groups in you area www.abstinence.net.
that way the parents also have a community of supporters in that icky discussion.
