What is wrong with people these days...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21358971/wid/11915773?GT1=10514
PORTLAND, Maine - Pupils at a city middle school will be able to get birth control pills and patches at their student health center after the local school board approved the proposal Wednesday evening.
So let me get this straight... "Hey, we as parents feel we're completely unable to control our kids... So lets give them birth control pills when they're 11 so they think they're safe to have as much sex as they want, and end up with a horrible std at an early age".
You have to be kidding me right? I mean I do tend to be fairly liberal on most stuff (ok, family life is where I get more conservitive), but there comes a point in time when you need some sanity... We're talking about kids between the ages of 11 and 13 here, they really will have no idea about what all sex means, really there's no way they could... So why not just make Sex Ed required, perhaps set up meetings with parents to help them better deal with these issues with their kids, and try our best to actually keep kids this young from starting to have sex when they can't possibly be ready for it....
Personally, for me this probably wouldn't be as big a deal for an High School (yes they start at 14, but they get older from that point), but the line really needs to be drawn somewhere... Before you know it we'll be giving preschoolers birth control patches/pills.
posted by Carlo at
10:52 AM
3 Comments:
I think parents have lost touch with raising their kids...How else would you explain kids bringing guns to school and shooting people..
Hey man I agree completely... It's up to the parents not the schoolboard.
I don't even think sex-ed sould be taught at school. That's my job!
Besides, giving kids birth control really won't stop them from having sex or getting pregnant. Their parents will either find out and stop it, or they will not take the pill regularly and get pregnant easier because they are having more sex.
Anymore it seems like a gamgit. Try to get to 18 without getting pregnant or herpies.
My sisters boyfiend is a child psychologist for Akron city schools and he sees 10 year olds with biological pregnancies. They can't maintain them of course because their bodies arn't ready to cary a child (just to make one), but still...
Actually, I am all for sex ed in school to be perfectly honest... I see it as more likely that kids will get accurate information regarding the "medical" side of sex (i.e. illnesses that can be contracted etc) that they'll get from most parents out there.
I'm totally against this bs though... This is parents just encouraging their kids to have sex, and to do it unsafely... They think their kids will be ok becase they won't get pregnant because they're on the pill... Even in a perfect world if your daughter remembers to regularly take the pill, that is not going to stop her from getting an STD. Infact last I heard the pill actually makes it more likely, it weakens the immunsystem.
I see this as just another case of parents trying to be "cool" and liked by their kids... They don't want to be "old fuddyduddies" like their parents and worry about things like "rules" and "discipline"... I saw it when I was growing up, parents in my home town would have popularity contests... They'd start supplying their kids parties with booze just so they could be the "coolest parents" that all the kids loved...
Apparently raising childern isn't about making sure your kids actually have a good moral base any more these days :(
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