There was a time when being human was a high risk existence. This resulted a very high mortality rate. Rapid breeding was an answer for that problem. That added to one heck of a sex drive that constantly works at high speed provides for year round breeding. With multiple partners, and frequent copulation for purposes of child rearing, breeding was even more rapid. When life for humans was simpler children could be on their own at an early as age. Medicine was poor and life expectancy was short. Rapid breedind was a clear survival plan. Without birth control women spent a lifetime being pregnant. Because of poor medicine, childbirth was as dangerous for women as war was for men. One of my grandfathers buried four wives. He married them one at a time, they were worn out by overwork and died in childbirth. Poor nutrition was a problem. Puberty for females often came quite late by today's standards, sixteen or even later. This lowered the risk for females and balanced out the risks of achieving maturity between the sexes. Intelligence has changed things. We now have better medicine. We live longer, far longer. To succeed in today's world takes an even longer childhood and a long training time. Instead of a third grade education being good enough for most people, now a high school diploma is almost too low a standard, and some college is required for many jobs. Eaising children to the standard of success takes a lot more time, and money for every child. We simply cannot afford to have as many children as did our ancestors. To do so in today's world is not a good survival plan. Birth control is not just a whimsey, a choice for frivolity, it is an economic necessity for most, especially poor, families. Because we are still saddled by a biology that constantly works at high speed providing for year round copulation with multiple partners, there is also a necessity for population and disease control. Birth control is also a choice of free will and is up to the individual. If God didn’t want birth control to exist, He would not have given us the intelligence to figure out how to make it work. Society and government is slow to accommodate the fast flow of history, science, and economics. We need to achieve a better plan for dealing with the realities of our sexual biology that works at high speed. We need to face life as it is, not as we wish it to be. We need to provide thorough knowledge about, and resources of birth control to, our children who are engaging in sexual activities at earlier and earlier ages. Children having children is not a good idea. Children do not have the resources to properly rear children. Girls of twelve have no business becoming pregnant. Boys of twelve have no business becoming fathers. Real world experience tells us what we must do: teach proper sexual behavior, and provide access to birth control. Scare tactics do not work. They only build distrust. The worst thing you can do to your child is to lie to them. You will never again have the same level of trust between you. Children are quick to realize untruthfulness, it is after all hard-wired into them by God’s Plan. To lie about sex is too dangerous to the relationship between parent and child. Especially when the child’s emotions are being whipsawed by flooding hormones.
(c) Copyright 2006: George Wallace recently published a book on religion which lashes out at nearly all of the comfortable ideas about God, the trappings of organized religion, and the priesthood. His pithy comments and suggestions for a return to a God-centered personal religion will interest everyone. This article may be freely reprinted so long as all copyright attributions, and the full content of this resource box are included. www.OhGodIsThatYou.com
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