My daughter is middle school age. She takes homeschool classes with other middle school students. She is almost 5 feet tall. She is just over 100 pounds. She still looks like a little girl. She acts like a little girl too. (she is child wearing yellow in the banner).
Last week when I took my kids to the doctor and told her I wanted to put off the Cancer immunization until she was older, the doctor informed me that kids start having sex around my daughters age.
Now I am hearing that a school in Maine is giving out birth control pills and patches to middle school girls WITHOUT parents knowledge or consent.
I look at my daugther and it just doesn't make sense. Now I know that there are girls her age who certainly are more developed than my daughter, but at this age, I believe more effort should be put into monitoring and teaching children than giving out pills.
Even if we put the moral ramifications aside... can someone tell me how school can give out birth control to girls without even knowing if thier bodies can phsially handle it. What about medical histories. What about blood clots. what about migraines, weight gain, and other side effects. Should a child fall ill after taking birth contol pills and a parent not know she is on it and she dies... who takes the responsibility then.
Oh, and parents can't send a kid to school with an antihistamine, but schools can send kids home with the pill.
Crazy. Yes, this is a good reason I am glad I homeschool.
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Last week when I took my kids to the doctor and told her I wanted to put off the Cancer immunization until she was older, the doctor informed me that kids start having sex around my daughters age.
Now I am hearing that a school in Maine is giving out birth control pills and patches to middle school girls WITHOUT parents knowledge or consent.
I look at my daugther and it just doesn't make sense. Now I know that there are girls her age who certainly are more developed than my daughter, but at this age, I believe more effort should be put into monitoring and teaching children than giving out pills.
Even if we put the moral ramifications aside... can someone tell me how school can give out birth control to girls without even knowing if thier bodies can phsially handle it. What about medical histories. What about blood clots. what about migraines, weight gain, and other side effects. Should a child fall ill after taking birth contol pills and a parent not know she is on it and she dies... who takes the responsibility then.
Oh, and parents can't send a kid to school with an antihistamine, but schools can send kids home with the pill.
Crazy. Yes, this is a good reason I am glad I homeschool.
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It seems like everywhere there's this unsaid (sometimes said) though of "well, they're bound to have sex, so let's protect them from pregnancy".
Uh huh, yeah, let's not teach them that they should wait, let's not teach them about STDs and love and what sex is about, let's give them birth control pills and send them on their merry way without so much as a passing thought about the parents.