I think that the more factual information kids are given, the more informed decisions they can make. The more facts they know, the less nonsense they believe. If someone isn't telling kids the facts about pregnancy, then kids are going to be believing the myths ... remember those? "If you have sex standing up, in swimming pool, etc., you won't get pregnant. If you pee right after you have sex, you won't get pregnant." Etc., etc. And guess what? It is the myths, not the facts, that WILL get kids pregnant.

Sex is a normal part of life. EVERYONE has sex during their lifetime. (Ok ... not nuns and monks, but ALMOST everyone. ) I think it's a terrible shame to treat sex a shameful, dirty, wrong thing. This is NOT going to stop kids from having sex. It's just going to make them secretive about it. Didn't stop any of us when we were that age, did it now?

Teach it at school, teach it at home, teach it anywhere as far as I'm concerned. But TEACH it. Teach it well, so our kids are not parents at age fourteen or dying from AIDS.

As for premarital sex, I'm personally all for it. It's a great favorite of mine. I would NEVER make a lifetime to someone without knowing if we are sexually compatible. Yikes. Scary.