What exactly do you think that he meant by this statement.  That if they had sex at 16 the government would punish them by making them adopt a baby?  I don't think so.  He was talked about abortion and you know it.

>>your argument pre-supposes that the mother would have been successful without having the child at 16. Unfortunately, with the piss poor public education system you can't assume that.

There's plenty of baren couples out there that would pay big money to have a kid of their own.

2 birds, 1 stone.

I'm going to go ahead and say, I AM NOT AN OBAMA SUPPORTER:

but people need to get a grip.  The man WAS talking about abortion - what else was he talking about - oh yeah, sex education

rest of the quote:  When it comes specifically to HIV/AIDS, the most important prevention is education, which should include -- which should include abstinence education and teaching the children -- teaching children, you know, that sex is not something casual. But it should also include -- it should also include other, you know, information about contraception because, look, I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby. I don't want them punished with an STD at the age of 16. You know, so it doesn't make sense to not give them information.

(sorry if that is a repeat from the transcript posted - I didn't read it )

We ALL know (or at least we should, because we are intelligent people) he was not talking about the babies themselves being the punishment, but the work involved with being a parent!  When you are not ready to be a parent, it would be the most difficult thing in the world.

If he had been talking about adoption, not a single solitary one of you would say he was inappropriate in his comments - unless he was saying to force adoption. . .

I do not support abortion, I do not support Obama, but people are taking this to extremes - he is not a baby hater, he is simply saying he doesn't want his children to have to suffer through parenthood becuase they made a mistake.  The HOLE in what he said - is adoption is ALWAYS an option and abortions being illegal would not change that!

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Yeah ..right. try teaching that to today's teens. Sex to them is so "unattached" in today's age with all of the UNattached Text Messaging and "hooking up" that is going on. what ever happen to teaching teen women that they should treat their bodies like gold. That guys only want one thing from them. That going out with a boy doesn't mean that you have to go to 2nd base right away. That no matter how you slice it.... oral sex is still grounds to be called "slut".

For me, it seems that, if you can educate the girls, you can STOP the boys. The ultimate power to have sex lies in the womans hands. Remember... No means NO.

(This is just my thoughts. I am only going on how I use to be as a teen boy...Mothers should have feared me, but I always made the mothers love me. That was how I would break down the first line of defense. I did fear the fathers...for some reason I always felt that they could see right through me.)

My kids don't need to learn science at school they can learn all they want about science at home. Forcing my child to learn about DARWINISM and have a class about evolution AT SCHOOL! They can attend an after school program to learn about it while I teach them about creationism at home. The only thing my child needs to hear at school is that the lord created man, not that man evolved from monkeys.

<--- Rediculous yes, but this is how your argument sounds. Schools should be realistic about things and teach reality not keep kids in a bubble of abstinance. I am sure your kids learn a whole lot more about sex from their friends than any of their teachers.

Kids today are going to have sex. 

There is no 'talk' you can have with them that will stop that. 

The only thing you can do, is to educate your kids to be safe. 

The girls that get pregnant are the ones who don't know the options they have, other than pulling out and crossing their fingers.

A buddy of mine loves dating a woman with a kid or two. He always says 'you know they put-out'.

If you teach your kids correct principles, it is amazing the things they can do! Kids who are taught abstinance at home are not all out having sex. Those children who are brought up in homes where morals aren't just talked about but lived can actually go w/o sex - even up to marriage. I can name many people who have done it this way and had successful marriages - my husband and myself included, and I can name many YOUNGER people who have also accomplished it.

These parents aren't all teaching protection - they are teaching abstinence. It DOES work, and while my kids will know about protection, the focus in our home is abstinence, and protection is more in the form of, "It's out there" It won't be in the form of "Use it" because MY children will/are learning not to do the action outside of marriage.