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- From: janem@hpfcdc.fc.hp.com (Jane Marcus)
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 16:20:00 GMT
- Subject: Re: pre-teen sex play
- Message-ID: <4570323@hpfcdc.fc.hp.com>
- Organization: HP Fort Collins, Co.
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- Newsgroups: misc.kids
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- >In any event, getting back to the original question: should I "tell"
- >or "not tell" if I come across a friend's children indulging in pre-
- >teen sex play, I'd say it's important to realize that _they aren't my
- >kids_. Making a stealthy suggestion to the parents that their kids
- >might be developing sexually is about as far as I personally would
- >feel comfortable sticking my nose into their business.
-
- Okay, one last post on this topic and then I promise to butt-out.
- If I remember the original post (correct me if I'm wrong),
- the kid in question was not a friend's kid, but rather was a family
- member. Kids in my extended family are not my kids, but I feel a
- much greater responsibility to them than I do for a friend's kid.
- [drift alert:
- I recently had something going on in my extended family that I felt
- driven to butt-in. My niece is 3 and she doesn't talk. My BIL and
- SIL seemed to be doing almost nothing to help her get diagnosed because
- they are trying to ignore the problem, thinking that it will go away
- on it's own. Stealthy suggestions did absolutely no good. So another
- family member and I have been really putting pressure on to get something
- to happen. True, my niece is not my kid, and my BIL and SIL may resent
- my interference. Butting-in certainly will not make me popular, but
- I have come to the point where I feel it is necessary for the sake of
- the child. Note that by butting-in, I mean talking with the parents. I
- do not mean making unilateral decisions on behalf of the child.]
-
- Parents sometimes need help. I know that I need help sometimes in raising
- my own kids (that's why I subscribe to misc.kids after all :-). If my
- child were in a potentially dangerous situation, I would want somebody to
- alert me, especially if I could do something to help. Now, the question
- is: do you think that sex experimentation is a potentially dangerous
- activity? Obviously, I do, but of course we may disagree. I heard on
- the radio that AIDS has become a major cause of death among kids. It is
- projected that by next year, AIDS will be the 5th leading cause of death
- among kids. In my opinion, this is too serious to ignore when it comes
- to kids experimenting with sex.
-
- Jane Marcus
- jane@apollo.hp.com
-