Saturday 21 April 2007

Kids need truth about sex

Sharon Swanson, Correspondent

My 13-year-old daughter wanted to see "The Nativity" over the winter holidays. It's spring now, and I'm still dealing with the fallout of my boycott of that particular film. "Mom, did you know that the girl who plays Mary is 15 and she's pregnant too, just like Jesus' mother?" she said of actress and mom-to-be Keisha Castle-Hughes.
"Well, um, there are some major differences between those two," I said, while trying to decide what grounds I would use for not patronizing an ostensibly religious movie that glamorizes an underage girl's pregnancy for publicity purposes.


Read More From Here

No comments: