BC...to Middle School students???

[Buttonz]

http://news.aol.com/story/ar/_a/midd...17225109990001

There is a middle school in Maine who is planning on offering birth control to thier students. Thoughts?

[AlethiaSi]

ya know, we're expected to be shocked by this... and I am... slightly... I mean... we all kind of knew this would come... but then you have backwards*ss systems like at the college i work at that does NOT provide any BC, no condoms, no education, nothing.

its the progression of things and might as well be prepared I guess... you always have the problem of people saying that it encourages sex... and maybe it does... but at least the education and necessary um... impliments are there.

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by AlethiaSi

ya know, we're expected to be shocked by this... and I am... slightly... I mean... we all kind of knew this would come... but then you have backwards*ss systems like at the college i work at that does NOT provide any BC, no condoms, no education, nothing.

its the progression of things and might as well be prepared I guess... you always have the problem of people saying that it encourages sex... and maybe it does... but at least the education and necessary um... impliments are there.

well for one... since a lot of these kids are developing and start earlier...it would be a way to keep down diseases and babies...not too crazy about it but.....


lets hope they dont get this idea

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18723555/

[texas*princess]

wow.

i shouldn't really be shocked that kids are doing that younger and younger but i really am.

Middle school is like 6th-8th grade right? So that is ages 13-16?

That's really scary and really sad at the same time.

[SydneyK]

Originally Posted by texas*princess

Middle school is like 6th-8th grade right? So that is ages 13-16?

I'd say 11-13 is more accurate (since most states require students to be 5 upon entering kindergarten).

I'm not sure what to make of this... I understand the reasoning behind it, but aaack! It blows my mind that kids who are barely old enough to babysit consider themselves old enough to have sex.

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by SydneyK

I'd say 11-13 is more accurate (since most states require students to be 5 upon entering kindergarten).

I'm not sure what to make of this... I understand the reasoning behind it, but aaack! It blows my mind that kids who are barely old enough to babysit consider themselves old enough to have sex.

SYdney, they are....they are developing much earlier (chemicals in the food) and being exposed to it much earlier..so we can only remain but so shocked...

[sageofages]

Originally Posted by SydneyK

I'd say 11-13 is more accurate (since most states require students to be 5 upon entering kindergarten).

I'm not sure what to make of this... I understand the reasoning behind it, but aaack! It blows my mind that kids who are barely old enough to babysit consider themselves old enough to have sex.

I know I am *old* ...47. BUT...I remember distinctly when I was in 6th grade in 1971 (I was 11!), there was a group of my classmates (NOT ME...I would like to add) who were having sex!!! Probably about 4 or 5 of them. One of them was my best friend actually. It was like a "game" to them. EEEEK...I remember being shocked when it came out (on the playground after lunch) about it.

When my oldest daughter was in 7th grade (12 in 1991), one of her group of friends got pregnant by a 10th grader (16 yr).

A recent story in the Des Moines Register highlighted a 28 year old woman was arrested for encouraging her 15 year old daughter to beat up another girl. Do the math...mother born in 1979, daughter born 13 years later in 1992!!! (means mom was 12 when she got pregnant)

It happened then, it happens now.

These children need to have help to not be making more children. If it means the clinics are in middle schools, then that is where they need to be.