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CMA condemned programs such as “Talking About Touching” as ineffective, out-of-step with child development, and not in keeping with the Church’s teaching on the appropriate sex education of children

Doctors oppose U.S. bishops' "Talking about Touching" abuse prevention program...

"The parents must be very careful, My children, who you send your children to be taught from. Much evil is being developed in the schools in the name of sexuality. Why cannot we have our children pure of thought and mind? How can we, My children, when the teachers there are being taught to bring in sex education to your children? This belongs not in the schools, but in the homes. This is an obligation of the parents. It will only lead to much greater disaster by having this sex education in the school system." - Jesus, October 2, 1987

LifeSiteNews reported on November 28, 2006:

The Catholic Medical Association has asked the U.S. bishops to stop using controversial sexual abuse education programs, aimed at teaching young children to protect themselves from abusers, in their dioceses.

During the association’s annual conference in Boston last month, the CMA released a 55-page study that condemned programs such as “Talking About Touching” as ineffective, out-of-step with child development, and not in keeping with the Church’s teaching on the appropriate sex education of children, the National Catholic Register reported last week.

The report, entitled To Prevent and to Protect: Report of the Catholic Medical Association Task Force on the Sexual Abuse of Children and Its Prevention, echoes complaints from parents and pro-family groups against the safety programs implemented at the bishops’ 2002 Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People.

Opponents criticized the programs for exposing young children to sexual concepts inappropriate to their age, and for burdening children with the responsibility of protecting themselves against sexual abuse.

Bishop Robert Vasa, who acts as Episcopal adviser to the CMA, said he wants to see the association’s study presented in the light of Catholic faith.

“The men and women who worked on the task force,” he said, “relied very heavily on the Pontifical Council for the Family document ‘The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality.’”

“I think it makes an important contribution to a dialogue that has been going on for years and which needs to continue in order to help assure that we not only do something for the children but more importantly that we do something truly good and effective in protecting them.”

The CMA report says sexual abuse of minors has not dropped since the education programs were implemented, which they argue reinforces their objections to the programs. Although opponents dispute the CMA’s claim of unchanging abuse rates, the executive director of the CMA said whether or not the rates have changed is not the point of the reports’ conclusions.

“I wouldn’t want to hurl one set of statistics versus another and argue about whether the incidence of sexual abuse has gone down some or not,” he said. “We need to ask: Are (the programs) well designed, effective in practice, consistent with the Church’s teaching on human persons, family and sexual love?”

The CMA report objects to the concept of “child empowerment” which the report authors say places undo responsibility onto small children to protect themselves from sexual abuse.

Joan Duffell, with the Seattle-based Committee for Children which developed the Talking About Touching program, said the CMA’s use of language such as “child empowerment”  gave a misleading impression about the intention of the program developers.

“We and our colleagues in this field do not expect children to become ‘empowered’ to stop abuse or in any way shoulder the burden for their own protection,” Ms. Duffell said. “Thus, well-developed child abuse prevention programs do not use the ‘child empowerment’ frame but simply teach safety skills in a pedagogically supportable way to children, parents, caregivers and educators, in order to help everyone respond effectively.”

Copies of the report were sent to bishops in mid-October, ensuring they would have access to the material in time for the annual U.S. Bishops Conference.

Read coverage from the National Catholic Register:
http://ncregister.com/site/article/1375/

See related LifeSiteNews coverage:
Archdiocese Facing Parent Complaints over “Talking about Touching” Sex-Ed Program
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/feb/06022806.html

“Talking about Touching” Sex-Ed Opponent Fr. Altier Writes to Spirit Daily
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/mar/06030809.html

Parents Continue to Object to Diocesan Child Protection Programs
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/feb/04020605.html

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"A foul situation has come about in the schools, both public and private. They are now teaching sex education, My children. And this is a debauchery of your young souls. Parents, are you so blind that you do not investigate, or ask your children what has happened in their classes today at school?" - Our Lady of the Roses, September 27, 1986
 

The amazing Bayside Prophecies...
https://www.tldm.org/directives/directives.htm
These prophecies came from Jesus, Mary, and the saints to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, NY, from 1968 to 1995.

SEX EDUCATION IN THE SCHOOLS
"A foul situation has come about in the schools, both public and private. They are now teaching sex education, My children. And this is a debauchery of your young souls. Parents, are you so blind that you do not investigate, or ask your children what has happened in their classes today at school? Show you no interest as you go about the world gathering materialism, and seeking to break your home apart by husband and wife going in both directions; neither do they work together to hold the home together, but they work apart, many leaving the children astray by not having counsel over them."
    "My child and My children, I tell you now: All that I have told you in the past will come to pass. There will be great punishments set upon earth. The United States and Canada shall not escape. They have been actually sentenced by the Eternal Father to many calamities that will befall them very shortly. The Father in Heaven feels in this manner shall they bring many back to the fold. It is not an angry God Who speaks to you, My children, but a sorrowful One. All of our hearts in Heaven, and the hearts of the saints, are saddened at what is to come upon mankind." - Our Lady, September 27, 1986

SEX EDUCATION: OBLIGATION OF PARENTS
"My child, I do not wish to burden you any longer with the miseries upon earth. I wish to talk only a while, a little bit, about the children of earth, the young children. The parents must be very careful, My children, who you send your children to be taught from. Much evil is being developed in the schools in the name of sexuality. Why cannot we have our children pure of thought and mind? How can we, My children, when the teachers there are being taught to bring in sex education to your children? This belongs not in the schools, but in the homes. This is an obligation of the parents. It will only lead to much greater disaster by having this sex education in the school system." - Jesus, October 2, 1987

NO SEX EDUCATION IN SCHOOLS
"My child, I know much of this discourse distresses your heart, but you can imagine well--and I know you do, My child Veronica--the sorrow My Mother feels now that sex education has entered upon the school system. We say unto you, and I say to you, as your God, My children: Mothers and fathers of the world, you will not give over your children to be taught by demons! Satan has many loosed upon earth now. They enter into the bodies of any man, woman or child who has fallen out of grace; and they enter into the bodies of those who teach your children error.
    "It is the place and the will of the Eternal Father that the home shall be the safeguard for the children's souls--the mother, the father. But what can We expect, My children, when even the state of marriage, the sacrament of Marriage, is being destroyed slowly? We know all that is going on upon earth--living together without unions under God. No, My children, that shall also be destroyed in time; if not by sickness and death of the body, it will also be by sickness and death of the soul!
    "My children, it was never deemed by Heaven, nor the Eternal Father--as written in the good Book of life and love, your Bible, that man shall not cohort with man; man shall not cohabit with man, and man shall not seek diversion from his home by setting out to seduce another.
"My child, and My children, are there many strong homes left in the United States, Canada, and many homes of the world? No, My children, the standards have been lowered. And when the standards are lowered, satan takes over." - Jesus, June 6, 1987

SEX EDUCATION: PRIVATE DISCOURSE BETWEEN CHILDREN AND PARENTS
"The mind and the eyes are the mirror of the soul. Therefore, you will cast your eyes upon goodness and holiness and purity. You will not watch the infernal machine--your television. You will not read books of sex education, books that do not belong in your schools! They are a private discourse between children and parents.
    "The Eternal Father finds abominations and sins, soul - sins and matter of sins of the flesh, being committed because of the false teachers who now have set themselves in the House of God." - St. Theresa, October 2, 1975

Directives from Heaven...
D167 - The Family - Part 1 PDF
D168 - The Family - Part 2 PDF
D183 - Sex Education    PDF

 

Articles...

Vatican 'unheeded' as classroom sex-ed threatens young
https://www.tldm.org/news9/SexEdVaticanUnheeded.htm

 

Scottish Cardinal calls sex-ed "child abuse"
https://www.tldm.org/news7/SexEducation2.htm

 

Sex education and the psychological manipulation of children
https://www.tldm.org/news5/SexEducation.htm

 

Philippine Catholic bishops oppose sex-ed in the schools, say it should be left to parents
https://www.tldm.org/news9/SexEducation5.htm

 

Archdiocese facing parent complaints over "Talking about Touching" sex-ed program
https://www.tldm.org/news9/SexEdTalkingAboutTouching.htm

 

Bishop silences faithful priest for objecting to graphic sex-ed program
https://www.tldm.org/news9/SexEdTalkingAboutTouching2.htm

 

U.S. Bishops child protection programs supported by homosexual activists
https://www.tldm.org/news9/SexEdTalkingAboutTouching3.htm

 

Grave questions about bishops' child-abuse prevention programs
https://www.tldm.org/news9/SexEdTalkingAboutTouching5.htm

Links…

Catholic Parents Online (information about the Talking About Touching sex-ed program)
http://www.catholicparents.org/

 

Abusing God's children: part 1

http://www.michnews.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/196/9482

 

Abusing God's children: part 2
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_9548.shtml

 

Abusing God's children: part 3
http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_9607.shtml

 

Why comprehensive sex-ed isn't the answer, Matt C. Abbott, December 2, 2004
http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/abbott/041202

 

Cardinal's anger at sex lessons, U.K. Guardian, August 30, 2004

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1293386,00.html

 

Mother’s Watch web site:

http://www.motherswatch.org/

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