What do you think of a Middle school that offers birth control pills to girls and condoms to the boys?

Question

These are given without the parents permission! these are children from 11,12,13,14 years old! This has happened in a school in the city where I live! I think it encourages children to be sexualy active years before they are ready.

No, I didnot lie! This was on the News and I even typed it as I listened. This is in Central IL. check it out at www.wandtv.com News Center 17.

I do not watch FOX News!

Answer 1

Doesn't anyone have any self control anymore?

Answer 2

I even have consistently been against delivery administration being offered via the colleges. that's some thing that ought to be a mothers and dads determination. inspite of my own ideals there are different reasons that this could not be achieved. The tablet comes with risks. that's a drugs. No 9-13 3 hundred and sixty 5 days old has the mentality to make a careful determination touching directly to the hazards linked with oral contraceptives. What in the event that they smoke? What approximately scientific historic previous? My 19 3 hundred and sixty 5 days old would not even know his finished scientific historic previous. What if the new child takes different drugs for different situations and would not tell the physician? they could forget or be afraid to indicate it for concern of no longer getting the prescription. you apart from could could take the tablet common. At that age what's the likelyhood this might ensue? Condoms are a extra effective answer plus they avert the unfold of STDs that's extremely important. i might fairly take care of an undesirable being pregnant than a sickness which will kill you.

Answer 3

I think it is very scary. I am a Christian and am strictly against promoting this but looking at this from a non-religious view I do not see how we can promote such a thing. OK how good are the judgements of these 11,12,13 and 14 year old boys and girls? For most their judgements are not always good. If they had good judgement and were capeable of making wise decisions they would choose to not have sex to begin with. Condoms are not 100% effective to prevent pregnancy and STDs. Most boys will most likely not even use a condom if they know the girl is on birth control pill. Telling these children to have unmarried sex at such a young age, regardless of the fact that you are promoting condoms and the pill, is setting them up for the chance of contracting sexually transmitted diseases. Even if the odds are 1 in 1 million that you can contract STDs there is still a chance. So in essence you are telling these children..."Hey we can't teach you how to be fully responsible so we are just going to close our eyes and let you do what ever you wish. Here are some condoms and birth control pills. There is a chance you can still get diseases but hey we will let you do what you want so we don't look like bad, mean adults". THAT is what is all boils down to.

Answer 4

I find it hard to believe they offer such things without parental permission. I know of schools and one in particular that just recently made the news that do offer birth control, but there are restrictions and access limitations. As far as I know children can also go the family doctor and do the same thing; doctor/patient privilege and all that. But I'd much rather my kids were on birth control and protected then to father or give birth to children before they were ready. Pregnancy, while a grave concern, is the least of the worries from unprotected sex; there is AIDS to consider and Hepatitis and other STDs that can cause severe damage or death.

There are many things besides the idea of birth control that have young children interested in sex; movies for example, cartoons, t.v. shows, magazine ads -- they all show forms of sexual behavior to some degree or another. And these are the images that are in children's heads fueling the interest in sex.

I agree with you that 11 to 14 year olds are too young for sex. And while abstinence is a great ideal, it's unrealistic. I'd rather the children (mine included) were protected.

Answer 5

Some parents I know can't talk to their children about sex. They are too embarrassed.
Some parents are not even at home when their kids leave or come home from school.
Some one has to guide these kids. If the parents can't do the job, someone has to.
It's very sad that the educational system has to be the ones to teach these kids about the facts of life because the parents aren't around or are too embarrassed.

Where I live, in the nurses office is a supply of food donated by parents of the school for children to come in a pick out what canned food they want for dinner that night. Why??? Because mom and dad aren't going to be there tonight and there is nothing in the house for dinner.

This does not encourage sexual activity. They are going to have sex with or without these supplied items.

Answer 6

Children having sex??!@$ Has this country lost its mind. This is very upsetting. Kids should be kids. Parents need to step up and lay down the law. Middle schools should not be giving out
birth control or anything related to sex. What is next contraceptives for elementary children or Pre-K!!! This is where we are headed people! Wake Up!

Answer 7

Well, as the parent of a 12 year old boy and a 9 year old girl, I obviously don't want them having sex until they are 21. : )

But if they decide to make a dumb decision, I'd rather have it be one that affects them temporarily than one that ruins the rest of their lives, like pregnancy or an STD would.

Here's the reality--you need to teach your kids what you believe (and have good reasons that they can relate to!) early--or else they will hear it from their friends or their school. That's life in America today. Their values should come from you--whether they get birth control from the school or not shouldn't matter then.

Answer 8

Preferably they should tell the parents but kids do what they want anyway so in a case like that I would like to know my kid knows what can happen. Too often have I heard of parents telling bogus or no information about sex to kids and for some reason or another seem surprised when they become proud grandparents. Hell my own parents told us bulls**t info and mom had the audacity to get po'd when she became a grandmother. Personally I'm all for sex ed 10 and up. Certainly beats becoming a grandparent for being stupid.

Answer 9

I want to know why they didn't give the girls condoms too - they can still catch STDs.

I would also hope that the school gave them some kind of guidance with regard to sex and holding off as long as possible and ignoring pear pressure but being safe if they feel they have to. I would hope they said that just because they have them does not mean they have to use them.

I think it encourages children and young teenagers to be knowledgeable and understand it more so they feel they have the empowerment to say no if that's the way they feel but to know that when they do say yes they feel safe and as if they're doing the right thing.

Answer 10

I knew about sex long before I went to Middle School and High School due to parental influences. Yet, I believe that parents and the schools need to play an active role in the kid's lives. The parents blame the schools for not teaching them, the schools blame the parents for not teaching them either so then you end up with some teens pregnant because they thought they couldn't get pregnant if he pulled out, couldn't get pregnant while on their periods or couldn't get pregnant if they were virgins. It's obivious no one is teaching kids about safe sex activities and how to protect themselves from pregnancies and STD's. So yes, I think handing out BC's and condoms is honestly our safest bet at this time until America stops being so purtanicial when it comes to sex period.
If I found my son was being sexually active I will easily sit down with him and tell him the pros and cons and also tell him for his safety and the safety of others, he should ALWAYS use protection and not think of the things I listed below or if the girl says she is on the pill. You just never know. It is sad that kids 11 - 13 years old are becoming sexually active but in society today it's not a surprise when we glorify little girls in tiny outfits posing in risque behavior - we, as citizens, are allowing it and then freak out when we find kids are sexually active.
You may also think they will take on the responsibility of raising a child but a child raising a child isn't a good thing. I know many kids who ended up ditching their so wanted baby with their parents to continue on as being kids. The other aspect with condoms is the fact that it isn't just pregnancy you have to worry about anymore.

Answer 11

yep...taught them to use condoms with a banana when my girls were in school. a required subject and they received an F because i didn't allow them to participate. that was MY JOB!!!
it's disgraceful, but then again there are more children/teens who do not have someone to teach them truth and hopefully will save their lives.
these days they are sexually active at 9 and 10 years old.
SIGN OF THE TIMES!!!!