condom vending machines in high school?? despicable!!!?

Question

i was gobsmacked tonight when i heard on the radio tonight that the government has decided to fit ALL high schools in Australia with condom vending machines. how ludricous!! what will they think of next? building special 'rooms' for them to run off and have a 'quickie' while they're at school?? i am furious at this decision!! this only encourages them, it isn't teaching them anything! what sort of morals are they setting? it's bad enough that they are 'paying' our teenagers to run away from home, they are even paying them to sue their own parents! i think this situation is getting completely out of hand and i feel that parents should be putting their foot down and demand that they hand back the job of parenting to the parents and re evaluate their system so that children who are being neglected and abused aren't being put through the wringer and ending up on the streets or in a worse situation than what they have come from. they are only putting a band aid on a very serious issue!

as a mum to 4 teenagers, why is it up to the government to hand them out? it's not their job! i do NOT my 14 yr old daughter having sex! nor do i want her thinking its ok, far as i'm concerned its an invitation. its MY job to put her on birth control when i think it's time, and ensure she is safe. isn't it? yes, i know they prevent std's and pregnancy, but they are readily available from any family planning clinic and many other places provide them free! how come teens are still getting pregnant and catching std's??

Answer 1

Sadly, this has been the trend for years now and will countuine to be. Governments are to busy with this nonsense and giving kids all these ridiculous ideas that life is all about them, but when it backfires and trust me it does they are quick to charge the parents with charges coming from not parenting correctly or there inability to control theirs kids. So we're damned if we do and damned if we don't. Great question my friend!

Answer 2

since teaching abstinence obviously does not work, I think providing condoms to use for protection is a great idea. Lets prevent as many unwanted pregnancies and STD's as we can. My children will have access to condoms and birth control when they tell me they are ready to have sex.

Maybe that condom vending machine will prevent one person from having a baby at 15 or getting HIV, or is that not as important as being holier than thou to you?

EDIT: why are people still getting pregnant and catching STD's? Because people like you unfortunately run the world right now with an unrealistic view of what kids are doing, or should be doing. People like you have kept real sex ed out of school for so long that kids don;t know up from down about this stuff. People like you refuse to give children the real facts about sex, pregnancy and disease and therefore make it seem harmless and easy. Start being realistic and hopefully future generations can benefit from some real information.

Answer 3

An excellent idea to have the machines at school, better yet provide free condoms at the nurses office. High school students are not children but may be short of cash to purchase their own at a store, any service station now days also has machines in the bathrooms, but money could be a problem. Get over it young people are people and people are sexual beings period. Young people have and always will have sex no one can change the facts but we can provide all info and protection they need.

Answer 4

Well, you bring up an interesting concern, but the flip side is equally valid. They cannot be stopped from having sexual relations. So it is ALSO very wise to equip them with the means to do it safely. If the parents are teaching the children correctly, then this isn't much of a concern, though. Yes, the job of parenting SHOULD be done by the parents. The concern that I have is that the parents aren't always doing that job adequately, and the CHILDREN need to be the priority.

Answer 5

i actually don't agree. I remember when I was in middle school and we had sex education we learned that this was in the works of having free condoms given out in school. It's not to encourage teens to have sex. It's to encourage the teens who are having sex to use protection. A lot of kids are afraid to buy condoms or go on birth control because they are sexually active and afraid of their parents finding out. Supplying condoms and educating teens is Australia's way of saying look we think the safest sex is no sex, but if you're going to do it anyway , at least use a condom and you have no excuse because here they are for free. Do you see what I mean. They aren't telling teens to get naked and have wild orgies just saying if you are use a condom. They just know what many people are still finding out, you can't stop someone from doing what they want to do, they gave them the education, supplied them with pros and cons on both sides, and then left the decision up to them knowing that regardless of whatever fancy laws they have about consent, and such don't mean anything and a child will do it if they want to. It's not about how unfair or unjust the parent feels they are being treated, signing up for parent hood was their decision, when you enrolled you took a vow to devote your life to that child, All decision form that moment on are solely whats best for the child. The parenting job was never taken away from parents it was simply tested, it is simply letting you know that the world has gotten tougher , you have to work harder to raise better children. I think the saying goes it takes a village to raise a child. meaning they aren't against you they are working with you maybe in methods you don't agree with but they care about the child too and they want to make sure that whatever decision the child is making that they have an answer.

Answer 6

As a parent, it is your job to teach your children about sex and safe sex. With the increase of sexually transmitted diseases among younger and younger chilldren each year, the government is being proactive in preventing further spread of disease. Many youngsters who are sexually active are embarassed to purchase protection for fear of parental reaction. Just think about this for a moment. If a kid who is unknowingly infected with an STD is embarassed to purchase condoms in a drug store, yet has the option of purchasing the condom in school where no one will see them, which would you prefer?

As parents we would all like to think that our children will be smart and not have sex until they are adults or even married adults, but the reality is changing. Children are having sex at younger ages, and there are all kids of sexual predators in the world. We can't protect our children every waking moment of their lives, but we can give them the tolls to protect themselves when we aren't there to help.

If parents are invovled with their children's lives, and monitor the activities of their kids, they are doing what they should do. But I'm sure that we all can identify at least one child who doesn't have that much structure in their lives.

Answer 7

I do understand what you are saying. I am 24 and I didn't have sex until i was right at my 19th birthday because I wanted to waif until I had graduated from high school or married (I was with the guy and we were going to get married but I called it off 2 months before the wedding and i was 21 at the time My mom is so Proud of me). I know how boys are cuz I don't hang out with girls because the are to Caty. Anyways I also know that guys are going to have sex rather there are condoms there are not.... I also think that a guy shouldn't have sex unless he is man enough to go into a drug store and buy them himself, because if is embarrassed than he shouldn't be having sex in the 1st place..But there is not a Win Win situation....All you can do is talk to your kids and watch out for them.....

Answer 8

if only they had more condom machines in schools then maybe the rate of teenage pregnancies would go down.i get so sick of people who say that educating kids about sex is an invitation to let them have sex.kids are going to have sex no matter what and id prefer my children not be idiots about it and have all the knowledge and tools to help them be safe.wait until one of your kids comes up pregnant or with an std then maybe youll see why its important to give these resources to our children.all in all id rather my child have safe sex then not!!!!

Answer 9

If your teens confide in you then count your blessings. You are one of the very few who does.

The rest think their kids would confide in them, but they wont/dont.

Those teens are the ones who get pregnant or catch a deadly illness.

Most teens who are asked why they did not go to a health klink or so said they were ashamed, so they did not get protection.

So remeber for every teen who has the support he/she needs there are thousands without - and those are the ones the goverment are trying to protect - not the ones with secure, loving, interested and evovled parents.

Answer 10

Teenagers are going to have sex no matter what!! At least if they have access to birth control there will be more preventable prevented pregnancies. The big picture is cut back on kids having babies.

Answer 11

Sex is happening whether they are protected or not, if they can't get the protection or education from home then school is the next place to get it..its condoms or 14 year old with kids...which is worse?