do you think that birth control is not stressed enough to today's teens??

Question

With teen sex happening all the time, do you think there should be more classes and information givin out at schools?
do you think we just turn a blind eye and think, nah not our kid she is raised right?
there are free clinics all over town, i live in a small town and we have 9! that give out FREE birthcontrol , but yet teens are not taking advantage of it and there are more and more that end up pregnant and on welfare and in the system for years.
what do you think, if anything can be done to keep teens aware and safe?

I agree that we should defenatly teach our kids abstinence, but you should give them all of their options so that if they do decide to go ahead that they are protected and aware of all the risks involved.

Answer 1

some schools are teaching kids ONLY ways to NOT have sex and they dont teach or are not allowed to teach the kids how to have safe sex. isnt that insane?!?! because u know the kids are going to do it anyway!



I really think they should make birth control and over the counter drug, cuz lots of teen girls wanna take birth control but dont want to ask their moms to get it for them, so they just dont use it. cuz u have to be a certain age to get it.

Answer 2

I am really amazed at the misconseptions that kids have. things like....you can't get pg the first time. you can't get pg if woman is on the top....you can't get pregnant if the male pulls out before cumming. All false.

Yes we need more information to the kids.

when my daughter was in High School, I found out she was having sex with her bf. He dad refused to let me take her to the doctor to get birth control. He threw a fit saying that would mean we approve of the fact that she is having sex way too young. He finally gave in because I was going to take her to the doctor with or without his permission.

I told him....
"are you ready to raise another child? Do we have time or energy for a baby?'

I wish I knew the answer. Maybe there should be a law that every teenager entering high school or junior high should have a one on one discussion with a sex teacher who can hand out samples of condoms and give the girls condoms too.

Maybe shoot a film about what it is like to have a baby at such a young age. Also show that babies of teenagers are often underweight and limp and not as healthy as babies from older mothers.

Education is the key. Also parental involvment is very important. Home teaching is crutial. And maybe even have an agreement between parents and child about the "what if's:"

Answer 3

My biggest concern is really that teenagers are seemingly being taught that birth control is a perfect solution to not wanting to get pregnant, or get STDS, rather than being taught that it's NOT 100% effective (against either). So many people around here, for example (and not just teens) seem to think that if you use some kind of birth control, you have nothing to worry about. The truth is, though, that condoms are only 97% effective against pregnancy when used PERFECTLY (and also not 100% effective effective against most STDs), and most hormonal birth control is only up to 99% effective when used PERFECTLY. Maybe that just doesn't sound like a high risk to a teenager... but how about we teach them what those risks really mean instead of making them feel like a condom makes them invincible.

Answer 4

Teens are not street smart anymore. In todays culture, parents; especially mothers; very much spoil their kids with the latest and greatest of everything and they are very sheltered.

There was a poll of teens in New York and out of 10K kids, over 2400 didnt' know that some STD's could be spread by oral sex. 30% felt that pulling out before orgasm was ok to prevent pregnancy. The kids of today are very naive. Its scary when most of the shows they watch are sexually explicit.

With condoms everywhere; or even at planned parenthood; there is NO EXCUSE for a young person; or most people for that matter; to have unprotected sex.

Answer 5

Well birth control awareness may be stressed at schools where the percentage of teens pregnant is higher, but some schools (like my own) only hear about it in gym class. Trust me some kids just could care less.

Answer 6

I do think that it would be a good idea to give out more information at schools about getting birth control. In my town there is only one clinic and it is always so crowded that it takes at least three hours to just get a refill of pills and it isn't free.

Answer 7

What is sad is that we think so little of our teens that we don't even try to raise the bar of expectation and tell them to wait until they are married. We just 'turn a blind eye' and say, "Oh, well, it's gonna happen anyway." All the emotional damage that parents are responsible for in our kids because we don't do our jobs.

Answer 8

Birth Control is not stressed enough in today's teens?
No.
Self Control is not stressed enough in today's teens.
Involved Parenting is not stressed enough toward today's teens.
Positive Peer Pressure to do 'the right thing' is not stressed enough toward today's teens.
Attending to and application of Church Principles are not stressed enough in the lives of today's teens.

Teen pregnancies did not skyrocket until sex education was introduced into the school system. Parents stepping aside and allowing the government to teach social and moral issues helped the Teens to find excuses to experiment into risky behavior.

More classes & more information in the schools is WHAT HAS BEEN DONE for the past 40 yrs! And what has been the result of all of this education? More promiscious behavior! Not SMARTER behavior - riskier behavior!

How to reverse this?
How to get the Jeanie back into the bottle?

In the days when the average person understood that we are held responsible to a power higher and greater to ourself, then we had a 'checks & balances' of behavior in place. But since our new modern society says that Church is bad and God doesn't exist....well, then Katy bar the door, because we are held accountable to NO ONE, which means ANYTHING GOES. And human nature does like to self-gratify itself for it's own pleasures.....too bad if it hurts or harms another.

Answer 9

I have a 15 year old. She does sex ed. at school and knows about the risks. She isn't sexually active but has had numerous boyfriends. I believe that she will not have sex until she is ready and she claims she wants to save herself anyways. I wouldn't let her go on the pill because I don't believe teens she be sexually active but I know she has the sense to use protection should she ever decide to engage in sexual activity even though she knows I would be none too happy if I found out.

I think it's up to parents to teach their children about sex!

Answer 10

I work in a daycare where we have four children who's mother's are still in High School ! I think parents need to talk more to their children and let them know that if they are going to do adult stuff like having sex they better take the responsibility to protect them self's. We can preach abstinence all we want to but kids are going to do what they want it's human nature to want to have sex and in today's society our children are exposed to it way early in life so we as parents need to start talking earlier.