CyberScryber's Scrybes
• Mar. 25, 2006 - AWARE
Last night, DH took 13 year old DD to the AWARE ( Abstinence Wait-training And Relationship Education) father/daughter dinner and dance. It was recommended to us by the leaders of our home Bible study group. At any rate, what I have learned is that it is federally funded by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Family and Youth Services Bureau along with or via or under or whatever the Maternal and Child Health Bureau under the Department for Health and Human Services...I think. Yeah, okay, here's the government page I got my info from.
I gathered that the ACLU is totally against this and other abstinence only programs by reading the letter they along with the Feminists For Free Expression; Gay, Lesbian And Straight Education Network, and a dozen other like minded entities wrote to President Bush. I suspect they are distorting or embellishing some of the claims they are making, especially against the curriculm they mentioned in their letter. Of course I've never seen any of it so I can't say that with absolute certainty. I would love to get a good look at some of those curriculum just to satisfy my own curiosity. However, it must be a good program if the ACLU hates it. Just my whacky reasoning.
DD was positively glowing when she came home. She had such a good time. Even if she is a little young for it and probably didn't get a full understanding of the program, I think the fact that she and her dad had such a good time made it worthwhile. They are both looking forward to attending again next year.
It seems that the folks at AWARE really do a bang up job of making the whole thing a lot of fun. In addition to three speeches on the subject of fathers, daughters and purity, the dance and a three course meal, there were triva questions and drawings throughout the evening for things like resteraunt meals, and free workouts at the Total Gym. Apparently the live dj played only decent songs and a lot of them were from the 80's. Every
year the AWARE father/daughter dinner and dance is roughly doubling in
attendance. This year about 250 father/daughter dates attended. I hope the trend continues.
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