Thursday, October 18, 2007
Birth Control in Middle School
Wow. I am astonished at the fact that this middle school in Maine intends to distribute contraceptives. I do believe in distributing protection to minors but I feel STRONGLY that there are other issues involved when children ages 11-13 are in need of birth control. I have two thirteen year old sisters who live in different communities and they are as I was at their age; oblivious to that entire realm of life. I'm not saying they know nothing on the matter. In fact, one of the girls has a classmate who has professed to be bisexual already. This matter has made me think. It makes me wonder how she could know such a thing exists; it must be the media. This is where I feel parental control makes all the difference in the world.My parents no longer allow my little sister to have sleepovers with this girl; because they are parenting. They realized that just as allowing a little boy to spend the night at this age, they are only asking for trouble. I have no doubt my little sisters will be okay. I am concerned with the fact that different locations in the country are not working on the kinks in such a newly developing issue. Isn't there an age of consent in these states? I'm pretty sure such ages were established with a means of protection for children. I don't feel the schools are protecting their pupils by allowing such mischief. Shame on the schools and on the parents for allowing children to lose their innocence at a time they need to learn confidence in themselves.
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