SEX EDUCATION IS KILLING OUR CHILDREN By Audrey Werner R.N. Consistent studies show parents are not talking to their kids about sex.  Parents, who are the first line of protection for children, are having difficulty sharing the “fact-based” sex education message.  Did you ever wonder why? Fact-based sex education has only been around for the past 50 years and prior to this it was illegal to share such a message with children in public.  Sex was reserved for marriage and children were protected from any reference to the sex act.  If parents did give “the talk”, they often used the birds and the bees or a more indirect method of explaining the life process. It was not until Dr. Alfred Kinsey presented what we now know to be criminal and fraudulent scientific findings, did we look at children differently.  He claimed that children are sexual from birth and can enjoy sex with other children and adults if not for adult repression. Kinsey wanted to free adults and children from any moral restraints and encourage sexual freedom.  In 1964 the Kinsey Institute launched the Sex Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS), specifically to teach Kinseyan ideology as sex education with Planned Parenthood as its field representative.  Kinsey promised stronger marriages and better sexual health for those who adopted his way of thinking.  So how have we fared in the last 50 years?  We know that the divorce rate has skyrocketed and Dr. Meg Meeker in her book entitled “Epidemic:  How Teen Sex is Killing Our Kids” reports these alarming trends: --1 out of every 5 adolescents is living with an STD --In 1960 a shot of penicillin could kill the two known STD’s, syphilis and gonorrhea.  Today there are no simple cures and in some cases, no cures at all. --The CDC considers the STD epidemic a multiple epidemic of at least 25 separate Diseases (50 plus if you count all the various virus strains) --HPV, just one STD, is directly responsible for 99.7% of the cervical cancer cases and the deaths of nearly 5000 women each year. --80% of STD – infected teens are unaware they have an STD --Half of all new HIV infections are in our youth (male and female) --Condoms do not offer protection from most of the STD’s out there Over 50 years ago, parents were the primary source of information for children on the life process.  However, it was modesty, purity and self – control that was stressed and not sexual freedom.  No parent deliberately wants to put their child in harms way.  So before you or anyone else talks to your kids about sex, get educated on what message to give your children, where did the message come from and what was the motivating factor behind it.  As Dr. Meeker well stated, “As long as the idea of sexual freedom remains the driving force behind national sex education, the STD epidemic will continue…(and teens will be) facing deadly diseases spawned by unrestrained and premature sexual activity.”