Schools Providing Birth Control???
This article and the situation it talks about just shows how parents today are not doing their job. It is not the school’s place to be teaching our kids about sex or providing birth control. The argument that children today are not comfortable talking with their parents leads me to believe that parents today are not being all they can be. Granted, sex and birth control are not an easy topic for any parent. However, parents need to step up and deal with it. Setting an example that children can come to their parents about anything is what needs to happen.
I know that my kid(s) will most likely have sex before I am ready for them too, no matter how old they are. But I will do my damnedest to make sure that they can come to me, or my husband, if it becomes an issue. I would rather have my son come to me and tell me he’s thinking of having sex with his girlfriend. While I may not support the decision, I will support him and make sure he thinks fully about that and knows all the consequences, mental as well as physical. If that then leads me to make sure he has protection, I will personally take him down, or his father, and buy him condoms.
Having birth control readily available to children as young as 11 only gives them an excuse to go and try it. Honestly, think about it. In my youth, we didn’t have these options for us and it made sex scary because there were so many what ifs. We need to explain to our children that sex is more than just a physical act. Sure, it feels good and it’s fun. But there is a huge emotional toll on a person.
I didn’t have sex until I was 21. I still regret that decision due to the emotional effects. And I thought I was ready. But I wasn’t. Was it fun? Of course. I want to teach my children that you just don’t go out and do things because they are fun. You have to look at everything that comes from it. We live in a society where it’s preached we can do what we want, when we want, without any consequences. Sex is no longer an act between two loving people, married or otherwise. It has been reduced to something that is fun and makes you feel good.
And yet, people wonder why so many teens are having sex at a young age.
