So the powers that be are considering adverts for condoms and abortion to be acceptable in the middle of programmes such as Coronation Street and X Factor. Why?
Yes - I agree that teenage pregnancy rate is high and something needs to be done about awareness - but what about younger children?
With clothes for eight year old girls looking like a prostitutes outfit, six year olds with mobile phones and four year olds wearing make up - why cant children be allowed to be children anymore??
When I was a young girl, I was still playing with my dolls at the age of twelve, not considering my first sexual experience - the first time someone tried to snog me I ducked under his arm I was so scared!!!
I NEVER spoke to my Mum about anything important - we talked but if my parents had something to discuss they would never discuss it over dinner, or in the car as me and my husband do now.
We are much more open with our children than my Mum and Dad ever were with me. And Im not convinced that is a good thing either.
My son knows more about our credit card bills than his Dad does - he knows that Mummy is worrying about the menopause - Im talking to my friend about it a nd I forget that he has sonic ears. I know that I need to be more careful.
But these adverts are getting worse and worse.
The other day we were following a bus that had an advert raising awareness of chlamydia on it - I sat there cringing just knowing what was coming next.
Sure enough - the question - "Mummy - what is Chlamydia"
I skirted around it and in the end said that it was a type of illness but not one that he had to worry about, it was for adults.
"Oh - like the menopause and periods then?!!!"
See - this is what these adverts will lead to. Children will know about condoms and abortion before they know how babies are made.
And I, for one, am not comfortable with it.
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