For school we're having to write a persuasive paper on a topic of our chosing. I recently had to switch mine because, i was having issues finding information on my other topic. The topic i got switchted to is 'Contraception in schools' basically whether or not school nurses should or should be allowed to give out contraceptives, confidetially and at low cost. Just out of curiosity more than anything i was wondering what Other people thought about this topic. Any of your opinions would be apretiated, and/or imformation that could help me with my paper...

charlotte234s

I think that once this kids are around high school age, that condoms should be available to them through a school nurse, pehaps, and birth control if the girl is at least 16-17, most health clinics will give out condoms and have birth control available cheaply for young girls confidentially. However, I don't think they should be passing out condoms during home room, people say it will encourage sex, well they should make them available but not force them on kids. And as for children who are like 12, they don't need to be having sex, if the parent did anywhere close to a decent job parenting, they wouldn't even be considering having sex until they are several years older, I don't think we need to be giving condoms or BC to them.

RickJ

I say stop letting the schools take decisions like this away from the parents. Schools should be giving education, not contraceptives.

magprob

There it is there.

charlotte234s

I dunno, the schools don't want to offend parents by offering education, they often have to have permission to learn about contraception, and many schools have abstinence only programs and those are obviously failing, and many, many studies have proven that.

jillianleab

There was a recent thread about this:

http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/politic...es-142731.html

You can see people express opinions on both sides.

tomder55

Presumably every child in school has a parent or a legal guardian . Before the school distributes contraception of any kind; it should be a requirement that the parent /guardian signs a healthcare proxy waver to the school specific to the distribution of contraceptives. The general waiver currently used that alows the school to give the kid an aspirin should not be sufficient.

NeedKarma

I agree with Tom. (Is that the seventh sign? )

Synnen

I don't think the Pill should be available through schools, but condoms should be there for anyone who has the balls to ask the school nurse for them.

The REASON I don't think schools should be giving out the birth control pill is because I believe you should have a full medical examination, plus talk to a doctor about everything ELSE you're taking/doing. Some medications interact badly with others, and I believe (but I am not sure) that there are some that would render the Pill useless.

Because of the fact that it is medication, I don't want the school providing MEDICATION to my child without my consent. If my kid wanted information--well, that's different.

I believe the schools should be teaching sex-ed, and that it should be a heck of a lot more comprehensive than "Don't have SEX! It's bad! You'll get a disease or get pregnant or BOTH!". But once we open the doors to schools being able to provide birth control pills without our consent, what OTHER medications will they be able to give out without parental consent?

charlotte234s

Yeah, abstinence only sex ed is just propagating ignorance and putting kids lives at risk because they know nothing. Knoledge won't force kids to have sex if they don't want to in the first place, and it won't hurt them either.