They know what 'responsible parenthood' means

I can't help but think of the congressional bill that anti-life supporters insist on pushing. Funny that the proponents of House Bill 3773 should choose to call it the "Responsible Parenthood and Population Management Act" when one of its provisions is the transfer of the responsibility to form one's own children from the parents/family to the schools.

Education in matters such as human sexuality, "reproductive rights" and attitudes regarding birth control and procreation, will be left to private and public schools -- with mandatory sex education imposed on students from 5th grade to 4th year high school. Opposition to the contraception-and-population-control framework (which characterizes the government's sex education and reproductive health programs) by anyone including parents -- say, if they teach their teenage highschooler about the abortive component of birth control pills and tell her that true love entails sacrifice and, hence, abstinence until the wedding night -- shall be considered "willful disinformation," an act punishable by law (if the bill is passed).

This is happening in the Philippines, and despite the bill's name all this sounds more like a promotion of irresponsible parenthood to me.

Okay, that was meant to be an introduction to a news article I came across about some parents in Kansas, USA who are obviously involved parents and who know what "responsible parenting" means. I wish they were here to enjoin Filipino families to have the same courage and patience in caring for the children.

Parents Act on Schools’ Offensive Reading Material
By Cara Cook

Group provides Web site, resources about what to do.

In the spring of 2004, a group of parents in Overland Park, Kansas, sat down with some of their children’s assigned reading from school. What they found appalled them—and motivated them to do something about it.

Janet Harmon, one of the parents, told Concerned Women for America (CWA) her reaction to her son reading one of the books: “This is a 14-year-old freshman boy, and [the book] had references to oral sex and homosexuality. … I thought it was a mistake!”

One of Classkc.org’s fundamental principles is that parents should have final say regarding the formation of their children’s values, not the state: “The state should not have open season on when, where and how to indoctrinate and form children’s sexual attitudes, but rather, … the parents should have the primary role in values education and overall worldview, particularly in the area of sexual values, for their own children.”

Read the rest at Concerned Women for America