Would you let your own sexual hangups prevent your daughter from being vaccinated against cervical cancer?

Question

I recently read an article regarding the new cervical cancer vaccine. The vaccine can be given to girls as young as nine years old. Many parents don't want their daughters to be vaccinated because those parents think that the vaccination will lead to sexual promiscuity. I think that the parents who hold this viewpoint should be jailed for child endangerment.

Would you let your sexual hangups prevent your daughter from being protected from an extremely lethal form of cancer?

Answer 1

It shows just how ignorant people are.

This shot is to help save lives of women from cervical cancer

If kids are going to be sexual promiscuous they will no matter with this shot that may save their life or not.
Teaching your child about safe sex or abstinence is up to the parent.
Most parents either do not want to talk about it thinking it will make their kid want to have sex or if they do they make it seem nasty.

I will let my daughter get the shot that can help save her life and i will teach her the right ways about sex (she is 8 now)........the vaccine is to prevent cervical cancer not genital warts

Answer 2

If a child thinks that having a vaccine to prevent cervical cancer is a license to have sex, then the parents and the school system and the child all need to be sent to a course that teaches them about sex and the hazards and precautions. This is my frustration with abstinence only education that is being taught in schools. Getting a vaccine preventing cervical cancer does nothing that should lead ANYONE to think they they can just run around and have sex.

Answer 3

I have already started my daughter on the shots. In this day and age you have to protect your children from everything. But they have to know that the shot just prevents cervical cancer not aids VD or pregnancy or any other transmitted disease. It is not a free for all to have sex with anybody you want. I have known women with the disease and it is not a pretty sight to watch someone you care about go through. I would encourage any parent to do the right thing and have your daughter vaccinated against this disease.

Answer 4

The fact is that people are going to be having sex at one point or another and it is highly unlikely they are going to have one sex partner and that that partner also would have only had one sex partner. Condoms are not an effective means of stopping transmission of the HPV (virus that cause cervical cancer) The virus is so common due to the fact that it is so easily transmitted and it doesn't have any significant or noticeable symptoms other than causing cervical cancer later in life. The whole point of vaccinating girls against HPV early is because even a very small amount of sexual activity is likely to lead to infection.

Answer 5

The vaccine is against genital warts....an STD. Do you really think a nine year old girl needs this particular vaccination? Unless of course you think it's o.k. for nine year olds to be having sex. I don't vaccinate my children at all, because I have actually done research on what is put into those vaccinations and the statistics about whether these inoculations actually prevent or encourage the spread of disease. Maybe you should do your research before you start judging the decisions other people make for their own children.

Answer 6

If it means that my little girl will be less likely to get a disease that tons of women can get, than fine with me, I'll deal with the sex part when the time comes. Kids are going to have sex when they are ready, you just have to hope that you prepared them enough to go out into the world and know what is going to keep them healthy and safe, condoms, etc.

Answer 7

no, this is someone's life. I may believe in not having sex until your married, but if my daughter decides not to go that route I want her to be safe from diseases and cancer.

Answer 8

Worry about your own vagina.