Ashleigh DeCecca

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  Ashleigh signed the petition | 5 months ago

  Tell Mastercard: Stop Supporting the Live Dolphin Trade
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  Ashleigh signed the petition | about 1 year ago

  Justice for Dogs Neglected at Ohio Dog Pound
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  Ashleigh signed the petition | over 2 years ago

  Fawns To Be Orphaned As Mothers Methodically Executed 09/01/09
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  Ashleigh commented on the article | over 2 years ago

  Curriculum Watch: Abstinence-Only and Clean Coal Ideologues in Your Classroom?

  You know somehow I find it sad that we have to say abstinence-only education has failed.  It is kind of pathetic that we live in a world where the hope that men and women might control their sexual urges enough to wait for someone who will be, at least, a regular figure in their life- you know, longer than the weekend, is unrealistic.  How sad that our children are so sex charged that we don't even give abstinence a real dicussion.  Have we just resigned ourselves, as a society, that our kids are little more than hormonally charged beings who can't possibly keep their clothes on and therefore shouldn't even try? 

  
  

  I personally think it's a waste of money on both sides of the fence because kids don't need the school system to teach them a thing about this issue. And "teaching" them about it will likely work as well as it did for my generation.  Laugh about it in sex-ed class then meet your boy/girlfriend later to try all that fun stuff out!  My children are too young for this to be of issue in our home yet, but the education I plan for them to get about sex, will first off COME FROM ME- their parent, and secondly, teach them that they can have self control.  You can wait, you can be patient, and you don't have to be promiscuous like all that we see on TV and the internet. 

  
  

  Will they manage to have that control? Only time can tell.  But I will not doom them out of the gate by ignoring the possibility of abstinence as a viable option for our youth.  We have become such a self gratifying society that the thought of denying ourselves pleasure has now trickled down to the young in our society.

  
  

  In truth this issue is only a symptom of the deeper rooted problems in our world.