Right from wrong?

The Daily Telegraph reports on the government's recommendation to parents not to teach their children right from wrong when it comes to sex. Here is another indication of the ever increasing encroachment by the state into territory traditionally belonging to parents. What assumptions can we make from this about the moral framework governing sex education in our schools?

How should Christian parents react? To whose voice shall we listen? We must remember that it is our duty to bring up our children in the 'fear and instruction of the Lord'. At the very least this includes helping our children to distinguish between right from wrong (See 1 Sam 3.13). We must teach them how to live in a way that pleases God when it comes to sex and relationships.

Does it make any difference? Listen to these words highlighting the value of hearing and heeding biblically informed parental instruction.

Proverbs 1.8

'Hear, my son, your father's instruction and forsake not your mothers teaching, for they are a graceful garland around your head and pendants for your neck.'

Here is Proverbs 6.20-30. Note the link between parental guidance with the avoidance of sexual immorality.

'My son, keep your father's commandment,
and forsake not your mother's teaching.
Bind them on your heart always;
tie them around your neck.
When you walk, they will lead you;
when you lie down, they will watch over you;
and when you awake, they will talk with you.
For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light,
and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life,
to preserve you from the evil woman,
from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
Do not desire her beauty in your heart,
and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes;
for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread,
but a married woman hunts down a precious life.
Can a man carry fire next to his chest
and his clothes not be burned?
Or can one walk on hot coals
and his feet not be scorched?
So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife;
none who touches her will go unpunished.'

Two claims to be the voice of wisdom. Let's choose the wisdom of Solomon.