Should We Teach the Seventh Commandment?

One of the most difficult things to teach children is the seventh commandment. Children from the ages of three to ten know nothing about what happens in marriage. They understand little of the atrocity of committing adultery.

Should we even teach children at so young of an age about the seventh commandment? Our hesitance comes from a proper discretion. We are discrete with children, and we hide certain things from them until they are ready for them.

Our opposition does not have the same discretion. Children are taught sex education in the public schools starting at Kindergarten. In Kindergarten, they are taught, "Thou shalt commit adultery." We must first teach them, "Thou shalt not commit adultery." We must first teach them that homosexuality is wrong. That God created marriage to exist between one man and one woman, and that same-sex marriage is not an alternative lifestyle.

We must be discrete with children. But we must teach them the command, "Thou shalt not commit adultery." They can learn specifics much later in life (and Lord willing they will learn those specifics much later in life), but we must not deny them the command that God has given to everyone: "Thou shalt not commit adultery."