Reply #100: Exactly ... [View All]

[JoePhilly]

The past is only scary if you don't actually know what happened.

And ... you can't learn from the past if no one will tell you what it was.

Much better to be honest with kids, as their maturity level allows. You don't have such a discussion with a 6 year old. And I would also agree than not all 15 year olds are mature enough for such a discussion.

He wanted to understand abortion. He had questions. His questions, initially, were abstract. In telling him the truth, I helped him understand that his life had been influenced by this "abstract" issue.

I think that's important for a teenage boy. I don't want him to think that the decision to have an abortion is just something that a girl deals with.

And again ... he was ready to have this discussion. Not all 15 year-olds would be.