Parents, IUD/ Temporary contraceptive method for your daughters?

Question

I heard from my teacher that western countries like United States allow parents to apply IUD, which is a temporary contraceptive methods to their daughters as this is to prevent them for getting pregnant if they perform any sexual intercourse.

What do you think about this parents? Is it really good to apply IUD for daughters or to teach them never perform sex intercourse with people? Do you find it bad about this?

Answer 1

Giving our daughters access to birth control is indeed to prevent pregnancy. Despite moral teachings from parents and religion, we understand that some girls will engage in sex. It is better to provide them with birth control in case they decide to have sex than to help them deal with raising a baby, giving a baby up for adoption or having an abortion.

My concern with my own daughter is that she will become sexually active and get pregnant. Her whole life would change and she would have to postpone or abandon her dreams of a college education, a career, and travel to raise a child. If she got pregnant and decided not to raise a child, she would have to give the baby up for adoption or have an abortion. If she gave the child up for adoption, she would have guilt and she would wonder about her child and her decision for the rest of her life. If she chose abortion, she would also feel guilt and wonder about her decision for the rest of her life. Its better to prevent pregnancy in the first place than to deal with the consequences.

There are many birth control options for teenage daughters, but some young girls forget to use them! So, IUD and Depo Provera shots are a good solution. Those methods of birth control do not need to be taken daily like a pill and do not need to be applied with each sexual act, like a condom would. These methods are better for girls who might not remember to take a pill every day.

As a parent, I can teach my child that sex should wait until marriage or at least until she is an adult. However, she may decide not to wait. If she cannot wait until later in life, the least I can do is help her prevent pregnancy and disease. So, I think birth control options are a good thing.

Besides, parental permission is NOT necessary for a teenager to obtain birth control. There are condoms available at every pharmacy, grocery store, gas station and convenience store. There are also clinics in nearly every city that provide teenagers with access to free birth control such as Depo Provera, the Pill, Condoms, Diaphrams and so on.

As of 2002, according to a government survey and study, approximately 47% of teenage girls and 46% of teenage boys had begun having sex. Here is a link to the study. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_23/sr23_024FactSheet.pdf. Thankfully, most of them were using birth control to prevent pregnancy and disease.

Answer 2

IUD's are usually for people who don't want to get pregnant. It's a long term contraceptive method. The best method would be a birth control pill or to teach them abstinance.

Answer 3

You can guide your children to use contraceptives. Normally Condoms, Depo Shot (which I wouldn't recommend anyway) or the Pill - but ultimately you want them to not have sex.
An IUD is usually for those who have had a child already & want a longer term birth control. My Gyn said he only suggests this methods to new parents, and it shouldn't be used on those who never had a child.
I feel honesty is best. You ask them not to have sex, but they are teenagers and they think they know everything. So you can't control thier actions when they aren't around you.
My mom sat us down and told us about sex, that it can lead to disease & pregnancy. She also said that if we felt we need or want to have sex to see her, and she would take us for birth control. When I was ready, I saw her. She was a little taken aback, but she took it in stride and brought me to the doctor.
I have always been grateful for her honesty. It was really sad when I went to college, and many girls didn't know how to protect themselves.

Answer 4

I think that this is totally insane. A IUD does not protect against STDs, a big threat to teenagers, and shouldn't be inserted in women that have not had a baby, since it can fall out. It's more much important to give daughters the strength of character to face pressure, provide them with all the information to make educated decisions and make them fully aware of all the consequences involved. Most of all, trust them and lovingly explain all of this. Teenagers resent not being trusted and this make provoke them to act rebellious.

Answer 5

Parents cannot decide to have an IUD put into their daughters without their daughters first deciding thats what they want- Beyond that, IUD's do not work well in young women, and are more routinely placed in women who have had atleast one child. BEYOND THAT, doctors wont place IUD's in young girls because they are a form on long term BC.

Many girls are put on the pill, or birthcontrol, of their own desire, or by a parents urging, but only because the girl wants to be.

They do this to prevent unwanted pregnancies.

However, by and large, most under aged girls have to go on their own to special doctors at planned parenthood offices to go on the pill without their parents consent, as most parents dont want their girls on BC because it leads to more unprotected sex.

Last I knew, condoms were still most popular among teens.

Answer 6

You can allow your daughter to have an IUD implanted if she requests it.
You can't make birth control descisions for your daughter.
Women have a choice, in most developed countries anyway, about what happens to their bodies.

Answer 7

Those are bvery sensible and realistic parebnts.


Teengers have more sexaul hormones driving them to find love affect and become sexaul then at other times in life.


You are as likely to get teenage daughters to be celebate as you are to turn cats vegitarian bird lovers.


APLus its necessary for emotional development for teenagers to date to develop social skills and have support from parents as they grow up as it takes years to learn to handle realtioships and sex.

Its hard for people to start all this when living alone without no support or shoulder to cry on when things go wrong .

And coils are very effective at stopping pregnancy so the parents are doing the right thing. Either that or dero injections, nuva rings, contrceptive patches etc

Those who are not getting to date and in mid to late teens having sex often become extremely depressed and suicidal thinking everyone hates them and they will never find love.

They are likly to self hamr or be very into porn but no realtioships and other problems.


So far better to date starting slow with kissing then slowely becomming more advanced with parental support and contrception


Much like in holland where they have very low teen pregnancy rates and Scandanavia and germany.

Most humans tend to become sexaul around 15-18

Answer 8

I think it is NEVER a good idea to get an IUD. I had a cousin who died from peritonitis. The IUD poisoned her entire system. She died at 22 year old.

Answer 9

I don't think what your teacher is telling you is correct. It sounds like anti-American/Western hate propaganda. Most western parents don't want our daughters to have sex, get pregnant, or acquire sexually transmitted diseases. But still, some will, and so they are able to obtain condoms. We don't stone them to death or perform female circumcision on them, either.

Answer 10

Just proves the ignorance being taught about the US in other countries