{"id":6761,"date":"2005-01-05T15:28:48","date_gmt":"2005-01-05T22:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2005\/01\/05\/sex-and-teens.html"},"modified":"2005-01-05T15:28:48","modified_gmt":"2005-01-05T22:28:48","slug":"sex_and_teens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/05\/sex_and_teens.html","title":{"rendered":"Sex and teens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hope that, when Katherine reaches an age where she starts making decisions about sexual activity, that she will consult with Margie and me and let us help her make as rational and moral decisions as any teen can make.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I don&#8217;t <em>assume <\/em>she will.  And while I&#8217;d really like to know (and counsel) her if she seeks &#8220;reproductive health care services,&#8221; I certainly don&#8217;t want her to be <a href=\"http:\/\/respectfulofotters.blogspot.com\/2004_12_01_respectfulofotters_archive.html#110271219038899422\" target=\"_blank\">forced by <em>law<\/em> to get my permission<\/a> &#8212; or such services to be forced by law to turn her away if she doesn&#8217;t have Margie or me in tow.<\/p>\n<p>Because, you know what?  I honestly don&#8217;t think such laws are going to reduce the chance she&#8217;ll actually <em>need <\/em>those services &#8212; just reduce the chance that she&#8217;ll <em>seek them out<\/em>.  Which will make for even bigger problems than such laws are touted as resolving (assuming, for the sake of argument, that such laws are not as much intended as punitive against &#8220;immoral&#8221; girls as they are protective of &#8220;parental rights&#8221;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hope that, when Katherine reaches an age where she starts making decisions about sexual activity, that she will consult with Margie and me and let us help her make&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-parenting","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8072,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/26\/into_the_woods.html","url_meta":{"origin":6761,"position":0},"title":"Into the woods","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 26-May-05 3:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Ooooh. The Stanford Sierra Camp thang that Margie and I are going to looks pretty neat, and a nice place to stay, too. Food and drink and Constitutional Law lectures,...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Travel&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Travel","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/travel"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8989,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/09\/parental_notifi.html","url_meta":{"origin":6761,"position":1},"title":"Parental notification","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 9-Mar-06 10:45am","format":false,"excerpt":"Parental notification laws regarding teenagers getting abortions have been a huge flash point in the debate, especially since SCOTUS has allowed them as a restriction on \"abortion rights.\" Supporters talk...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Health&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Health","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/health"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8075,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/05\/26\/after_the_fact.html","url_meta":{"origin":6761,"position":2},"title":"After the fact.  Way after the fact","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 26-May-05 10:29am","format":false,"excerpt":"Current plan is that some weeknight next week we can prevail on the in-laws to watch Kitten so that Margie and I can go see Episode III. More when it...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Media &amp; Culture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Media &amp; Culture","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133413,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/06\/prom.html","url_meta":{"origin":6761,"position":3},"title":"Prom!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 6-May-17 8:34pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So Katherine decided to go off to prom this year with some other singleton friends. She opted for a tux vs a prom dress, and ended up with something accented by a very nifty green bowtie and vest. Margie crafted a boutonniere for her (and a wrist corsage for her\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":39608,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/07\/no-health-care-help-for-you.html","url_meta":{"origin":6761,"position":4},"title":"No Health Care Help for You!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 7-Nov-13 8:35am","format":false,"excerpt":"'Seventeen states have passed laws restricting navigators and others trained to help consumers learn about and enroll in the Affordable Care Act's health insurance marketplaces.'Nice. \u00a0Why would states restrict folks from providing consumers assistance? \u00a0Well, part of it may be wanting to be sure that bad advice isn't given (by\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":419,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/04\/17\/potpourri_for_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":6761,"position":5},"title":"Potpourri for $200, Alex","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 17-Apr-03 6:24am","format":false,"excerpt":"Various doings in my life ... New Boss came to town for a couple of days. A good, relatively relaxed meeting. Nothing major to hit, just a chance to get...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Job Jollies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Job Jollies","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/job-jollies"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}