Mike, you had me until take the children away and put them up for adoption. While that might be in the best interest of the child, you know that will never fly in this country.
Maybe it’s just the people I know, but I’d say about 95% of my daughter’s friends (17 and 18 year olds) are very mature and do behave like adults in nearly every respect. It’s in the way they were raised. Unfortunately, we can’t force everyone to raise their children to become responsible young adults. As an example, there’s this situation I encountered two nights ago.
Point is, there are going to be lazy parents, bad parents and ignorant parents. There’s nothing wrong with having the school system overlap what a parent should be teaching their kids at home, insofar as sex, responsibility, consequences, etc. It’s all well and good to believe that our children should behave maturely at 17 but we know that there’s a good portion of teens out there who just aren’t raised that way.
