http://www.alligator.org/articles/2007/10/18/opinion/columns/column1.txt
Read the above article and be prepared to be amazed. I know I was. Dr. Brennan was talking about this in class today and I had to run home and read it for myself.
Now don't get me wrong, B.C. is a good thing...when you are of sound mind and know how to use it correctly, but at 11 years old?
The kicker of the story is that these middle schoolers don't need their parents permission to get condoms or even B.C.
Where does that leave the parents? Does the school have the right to make such rash decisions for kids that don't belong to them?
Are children prepared to take on such a rash decisions that even some adults have a hard time with?
It all comes down to this...Kids are going to have sex no matter if we give them condoms or not. So as the family...the first line of defense, we have to do something. I applaude the Maine community for stepping up and recognizing a problem, but the solution isn't promoting safe sex among these middle schoolers, but its educating them, and trying to prevent sex at all costs.
Jeez...what happened to playing with Barbies and legos?
The world is changing and we have to step in and say something, we have to do something rash before our future generations just crash and burn.
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I read this article and was absolutely appauled that 11 years olds can receive birth control with parental consent. What is happening to our children today? Too much of what children see today comes from the media including magazines, tabliods etc. . Personally I was just learning out the female and male anatomy at that age in school. It's very sad to see that our children are wanting to experiment in sexually activity at this young age. At 11 years old a child is supposed to be playing with friends and using their young imaginations, exploring their world. Not in this article but in the 2004 issue of Time magazine, the average of a person losing their virginity was 10 years old. This article was very powerful and made me think of my future children and what I'll teach them about the effects of engaging in sexual activity at such a young age.
We always here the argument that if we provide them with contraceptives, it would lessen the rates of teen pregnancies. Whatever happened to just teaching our children the right way.
This schools automatic response to this issue should not be to just to hand out contraceptives, but to educated these middle schoolers on the consequences of unprotected sex, or the dangers of sex at this age period!
I think that no one was thinking about how they were at this age, there is still a chance for children these days. I'm sorry, but the "this generation children are just different" argument is old! Yes, they are different, so were we and our parents and theirs. We use that as an excuse for not taking responsibility as parents.
I think that society has become too lenient with the responsibilities of parenting, resulting in things like schools handing out condoms to middle schoolers to try and prevent something that parents and families should be in control over.
I understand that there will be a few exceptions, but if every family take the initiative to better themselves as a unit of protection and guidance for children, I think that this would not be as big of a problem.
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