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Originally posted by tickledpink:
Because I send my children to school to receive an education, not condoms & birth control pills. I am mortified at the thought.
However, I'm realistic. I know that children, if they choose to, will get involved in sex, drugs, and whatever else is out there. As a parent, it's my job to teach my children the facts, then to teach them responsibility and stress the importance of making the right choices and the consequences that arise when you do not. If I feel that placing my daughter on birth control pills is best for her, or giving them access to condoms is needed, then again (Lord forbid) that's a decision (however difficult) that I must make as a parent. I'm not comforatble with the possibility that I could be sending them to an institution that in a sense makes this decision for me.
I also realize that there are parents out there that don't accept responsibility in their roles, however, I still don't think it's the place of the school to pass out birth control. The schools may educate them on where they can receive these things (i.e. the Health Department) if they need them, but not pass them out.
[This message has been edited by tickledpink (edited May 14, 2001).]
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TicklePink,
In theory, I agree with you. It IS the responsibility of the parent(S) to explain sex and the responsibilities that go with it, but young minds are naturally curious. Add to that curious mind some active hormones, and you've got trouble-trouble that could possibly had been avoided if there was a place where a young man or woman could've picked up a condom. If they had a condom and used it, the parent would only have to worry about their child being sexually active, instead of worrying if their child contracted an std, or is now expecting a child, or both.
Curiousity is a natural part of being young, and it kills more than cats.