I Have a Huge Problem with This!
Unless you live under a rock or haven’t paid attention to the news, you probably know that a school board in Maine has voted to make birth control pills available to middle school children as young as 11 through its health center — WITHOUT parental consent! What in the hell is wrong with those people?!?! I’m sorry, but unless you are a DOCTOR whom I have consulted myself, you will NEVER be the one to decide to give my child medication, ESPECIALLY something as personal as birth control pills!!! Not to mention that prolonged use of birth control can have serious and life-long health implications! Condoms are one thing — they can’t affect anyone’s health by using them and can actually save lives — but an oral medication that alters a body’s natural cycle? I think not!! Those people might reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies, but do they really think it’s going to stem adolescent sex? And what about sexually transmitted diseases? Do they really think that an 11 year old girl is going to stop to think about using a condom, too, in order to protect herself from STDs??? Hell no she isn’t! All she’s going to be thinking about is that the danger of pregnancy is out the window and she can now have at it! Even 14 and 15 year olds are going to think that way! What’s next? Are they going to start offering free abortions at school? This is just wrong, people. Wrong, wrong, wrong! I think those long, cold winters in Maine have caused those school officials to have frostbite of the brain!
What do you think about this??
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It’s only the dumbest f*in idea ever! I saw this online and almost choked! My kid would be home-schooling if she went to that school. As frigging if, is what I say!
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I feel sorry for teenagers these days in public schooling. They have no chance.
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I agree, my daughter is 11 and I can tell you, there is no way I would even think about putting her on birth control! She hasn’t even started her period yet. I realize some 11 year old girls have started, but it’s up to the parents, not the school or the government.
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Rox — Right on. I am SO GLAD I homeschool my daughter!!
Creech — I know. It’s so sad. And scary! If this is going to be the trend in what our schools do, then your statement is frightenly prophetic!
Lynne — Exactly! I wish the schools would pay as much attention to things like bullying and its social and psychological impact on students!
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I agree completely. If it was high school, I’d be fine with it. But at 11 a kid having sex shouldn’t be put on birth control or given condoms. Three little words: TOTAL LOCK DOWN.
Thanks for blogging about this.
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I live under a rock so WOW! and we wonder why children are growing up so fast these days.
Sad, that they would encourage behaviors that could destroy their futures.
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Thing are crazy all over.
http://gothamist.com/2007/10/15/dont_let_your_k.php
School employees were forbidden to call for an ambulance even if the schoolkids needed one. Public outrage forced a change.
We can all spend hours on researching other ridiculous policies in schools. If there is a policy, such as giving out birth control pills to 14 year-old kids without telling their parents, then parents need to gather round proper legal officials/authorities and demand change….or get the kids out of public school.
Too many crazy things.
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