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- From: livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey)
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- Subject: Re: Alternative Families
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 21:07:47 GMT
- References: <1992Dec17.160646.20839@Arco.COM> <17DEC199211424690@zeus.tamu.edu> <1992Dec19.222818.18742@galileo.physics.arizona.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec19.222818.18742@galileo.physics.arizona.edu>, krueger@galileo.physics.arizona.edu (Ted Krueger) writes:
- |> In article <17DEC199211424690@zeus.tamu.edu> rlc1028@zeus.tamu.edu writes:
- |> >In article <1992Dec17.160646.20839@Arco.COM>, dprjdg@inetg1.ARCO.COM (John Grasham) writes...
- |> >
- |> >|It is important to portray families based on sexual practices because the
- |> >|sexual activities of the parents matter to the children. It matters a
- |> >|great deal to them.
- |> >
- |> > I have not found young children to be aware of sexual practises between
- |> >their parents or anyone, with the exception of kissing, perhaps. They
- |> >know mommy and daddy sleep together, but usually no more than that.
- |>
- |> Do you have any children? I have a 10-year-old and a 5-year-old, and there
- |> is not really any way we can keep our sexual practices out of their attention.
- |> Without getting into any personal practices here, I would say that IMO, any
- |> couple who believes that their children are unaware that activities beyond
- |> kissing are going on, either is naive or very discrete. Children, at least
- |> mine, are well aware that other activies occur "beyond the locked door."
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- First, I think that claims based on one family are pretty shaky.
-
- Second, if children are so aware of sexual activity as Mr Krueger suggests,
- then why do we need to be so careful not to allow any notion of sexuality
- to enter their innocent little minds?
-
- You can't have it both ways.
-
- jon.
-