Carroll County parents are alarmed about middle and high schoolers throwing sex parties and playing risky sex games.
“You hear kids talk about … promiscuity, but not as flagrant as what we?ve heard about on the news. I was kind of shocked,” said Carl Livesay, a South Carroll father of three and secretary of the Carroll County Council of Parent-Teacher Association.
“Just because we?ve only heard about it happening in the northern part of the county doesn?t mean it?s not happening in the southern part.”
Carol Brown, another parent of a teenager and president of the Parent-Teacher-Student Association at Liberty High School in Eldersburg, said the group would invite parents and students to share their concerns about sex parties at its next general membership meeting.
“I think there?s an opportunity for parents and youth to start talking,” she said. “There needs to be really open discussions.” Livesay said he planned to talk “frankly” Thursday night to his son, a senior at Liberty High, about some of the dangers associated with sex ? a dialogue he said he thinks too few parents have with their children.
“I think that?s the problem with society: There is a general disconnect between parents and children,” Livesay said.
“Parents aren?t as actively involved in children?s lives, so kids seek approval, acceptance and praise elsewhere. They think bad attention is better than no attention.”
Some students at North Carroll High School in Hampstead brag about having orgies and others claimed to have broken into new houses under construction to have sex, said a 17-year-old student there, speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of “getting beat up.”
Hampstead Police Chief Kenneth Meekins said Thursday that his department hasn?t received any reports of sex parties in town and had only learned of them when television crews showed up after The Examiner reported the story this week.
Children could face criminal charges if underage drinking, drug abuse or breaking into houses is involved, he said.
“If this is true, it?s a problem and something that is a health, parental and perhaps a school issue,” he said.
If you go
» What: Parent-Teacher Association invites parents to talk about teenage sex parties
» When: 7 p.m. Dec. 5
» Where: Liberty High School, 5855 Bartholow Road, Eldersburg
