Schools giving out free condoms

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They aren't free, they are included in the tuition.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just found out that my son's school gives out free condoms. My son is only in 9th grade and I can't get over the fact that his school is handing them condoms and allowing them to get them so easily. I feel like it encouragers kids to have sex, which I cannot get behind.

9th is what 14? That is a bit young. I get your sentiment but he does not need to use them and can still stay celibate. I guess the idea is to make using them very normal and accepted. You can still talk to him about your own values and what it means to you etc... He may or may not listen.

[Anonymous]

Like handing them out in classes or like have to grovel to the school nurses office?

[Anonymous]

Clutch the pearls! It's like they want the kids to have sex! </s>

[Anonymous]

They'll likely just use them as waterballoons and prank friends with them at first. Which I actually think is okay, you want a teen to be family with handling condoms and what they are like before they actually are using them for sex.

[Anonymous]

Do you really think a free condom is the gateway to having sex? Really>

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Like handing them out in classes or like have to grovel to the school nurses office?

Like they give away t-shirts at basketball games. THrown in mass into the crowd.

[Anonymous]

Condoms are good; stock up! Think about the lack of alternatives in the current political climate, which is only about to get more and more frightening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just found out that my son's school gives out free condoms. My son is only in 9th grade and I can't get over the fact that his school is handing them condoms and allowing them to get them so easily. I feel like it encouragers kids to have sex, which I cannot get behind.

What you should be concerned about is what your son is getting behind.

[Anonymous]

Ask you son to bring one home, then blow it up, and put him entirely inside it, up to his chin, for protection against the world.

[Anonymous]

Our school gives out free condoms as well as free feminine sanitary products, like a variety of tampons. Kids take what they need, it’s fine

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I thought this stopped being controversial in the late 80s/early 90s?

Seriously. Was anyone else a teenager during the height of the AIDS crisis? I assume most of us were. Condoms are a good thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They aren't free, they are included in the tuition.

[Anonymous]

My DC area private school had free condoms available when I was in school in the early 2000s. I still didn't have sex until college. Readily available condoms don't make kids have sex, but they can allow those who choose to have sex to be safe. Thank your school for doing this

[Anonymous]

He will still have to find a girl willing to have sex with him. That's the hard part.