Yes if traditional aboriginal society conceals sex from their children then having sex before them is an anomaly
Traditional Aboriginal society did not amount to rooting anything that moved, even if it is still in a nappy.
Children didn't have sex. Now they do. So why do they? Why is a 7 year old girl inserting plastic things into her vagina in class? Is that normal behaviour? No. It is not. Not by any stretch of the imagination. And it is not shocking because our parents concealed sex from us as children.
I'd have to look up traditional sexual practices of aboriginal Australians to comment on that.
Have you actually read the report?
Actually this is "normal" - children generally imitate any adult behaviour they observe
Imitation is normal. But what they are imitating is not normal for children their age. Children that young aren't normally sexually active and don't normally have sexual contact with adults. Nor are they normally exposed to pornography repeatedly as their parents watch it.
This reminds me of the case where a man was acquitted of rape [in Australia?] because the 10 year old was "sexually precocious". Have you seen children imitating Michael Jackson?
This is the argument you are going with?
In my opinion, this should be up to the aboriginals, whether they wish to move forward as a traditional community or an assimilated one. You can't really determine sexual mores for any community through external force. You can only educate about the health and psychological benefits or adverse effects of various choices.
You really need to read that report.
The issue with education is that no one wants to be educated. No one cares. They state, clearly in the report, that their problems stem from a cultural clash and attempts to assimilate by the young peope is what they blame in part for the troubles in their community. Kids watching porn at home and then bonking each other is, to Elders, what whites do and these children are being told to use contraception when they go to health clinics instead of being directed to the old traditional ways of no sex before marriage. The report is litered with reports from Elders about sexual promiscuity in children and teenagers in the report and how to combat it their way.. which does not match our way. So what do we do? Do we stop giving their young contraception? Or do we respect their autonomy and do as they ask us to do?
You can't have it both ways Sam. That is what we've been trying to tell you.
Usually when any society is in transition, the major effects of the transition are absorbed by the children.
Don't you get it yet?
Many of them don't want to be in transiton. They want to retain the old ways with zero interference or contact or services.
The children want their iphones, sex on tap and alcohol and spray paint to sniff. So what do we do? We ban the alcohol, we're bad. We force the children to go to school.. we're bad.
Again, complex issue which can't be broken down with an excuse of 'transition'.
In the last 100 years, the cycle of transition has been so rapid for aboriginals that it is possible there is not a single individual who has been brought up in the traditional ways. As an aside, I have had 5 year old boys expose their erections to me and a three year old who had the unfortunate habit of grabbing the breasts of women and saying
"Pom Pom" - while they are too young to comprehend sexuality, it is not true that they do not explore it. Its one of the issues of child psychology which is governed more by social taboo than by academic rigor - for obvious reasons.
Social taboo?
10 year olds were selling their bodies to adult men for sex and money - that is not exploration of one's body. Yet, if police tries to intervene, they are prevented by many in the community because it will cause trouble. So where's the balance?