I never thought I’d say this, but I have to admit I agree with Mitt Romney, Mormon, Republican Presidential candidate, about at least one policy proposal….that there be sex education in schools beginning with kindergarten. I will grant you that it’s not his proposal, but Barack Obama’s. And don’t pay lots of attention to the recent press reports that have Romney slamming Obama for this policy. In 2002, while the Governor of Massachusetts, Romney supported the same concept. He’s only recently changed his mind.

Sex Education for 5 year olds, you say?! The euphemism is ‘age-appropriate’, but if you think about it, what sex education would you offer a 5 year old? How about, ‘inappropriate touching’ discussions? I’d certainly support that information tidbit for my own child, although I’m not Catholic, so it would probably be information that is never used. But I do feel there is a place for some amount of education for all children. And sadly, some parents today won’t be dependable sources of that information for their own kids. In some cases it is by neglect, or embarrassment, but in some also, the parents were never given this education themselves, and have no information to pass on to their children. Jus another way in which our abysmal school systems have failed us. Too little sex education for too long.