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Originally Posted by Reba
I agree that parents should answer children's questions.
My point is, as a child, I never had those questions. I didn't see or know about transexual people. As a kid, my mind wasn't full of questions about people's sexual behaviors. Now, there seems to be way too much focus on kids and sex.
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I think the key here is exposure. You might not have had those kinds of questions growing up as a child, Reba... but some children do, and usually because they have exposure to someone who is gay or transgendered. My mother had gay friends when I was growing up, and I had questions as a 5 year old about why they weren't married (to someone of the opposite sex), and why two men were sleeping in the same bed in the guest room "like mommy and daddy do". Some parents, when asked those kinds of questions by their children, choose to be evasive. Some choose to lie, and some choose to tell the truth. My mother chose to tell us the truth, in a way that wasn't sexually provocative or inappropriate.
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Originally Posted by Reba
Answering their questions, that's fine. That's a lot different from exposing them to sexual situations at a young age.
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Did you mean to use the words "sexual situations"? To me, that carries a very different connotation, like... putting them in a room where sex acts are being performed, or popping in a porno, and sitting them down in front of the TV set.
Allowing your kids to be in the same room as a gay person or a transgendered person wouldn't be a "sexual situation", in my book, unless explicit sex acts were part of the experience.