Do you consider state laws/health care access effecting your child when selecting college?

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Anonymous wrote:I actually only knew two. One from my sorority and one from our junior year abroad program. Mid-1990s. Both were boy-crazy, heavy partiers with low GPAs.

Same, basically the girls who we knew as slutty.

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My kids are also liberals and chose for themselves which schools to include or exclude.

I also sent each kid (boy and girl) off to college with a Plan B just in case.

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If you’ve raised your kids to be mature and independent thinkers, you don’t need to tell them where they can and can’t go to college. You can leave it up to them.

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Anonymous wrote:Well.

I'm paying for my child to go to a school in California where the dining halls still aren't open and half the professors don't bother to show up to teach in person.

So I'm a good old D, but kind of wishing my child didn't go to college there right now.

So lots to think about.

Curious, where is this? Yeah, that is quite frustrating.

For a female or LBGTQ kid, it would be more important. Honestly hadn't though much about it until the past few years demonstrated it should be considered.

What school? Most schools in CA are now fully open and kids sign up for whether or not they take an on-line, hybrid or in-person class.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids are also liberals and chose for themselves which schools to include or exclude.

I also sent each kid (boy and girl) off to college with a Plan B just in case.

But taking it might become a crime in some states. Louisiana has a bill that would consider using Plan B homicide.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. I don't want my kid to me a mom as an undergraduate. Schools like Washington University are totally out now that Missouri is criminalizing abortions for people who become pregnant in Missouri regardless of where the procedure is preformed.

Maybe tell her not to sleep around?

+1. It’s like they are expecting their daughters to get pregnant and that it’s routine.

How many women in college have boyfriends? Do you think they just hold hands?

How many women in college haven’t heard of condoms? Do you think they don’t have access to stores?

How effective are condoms? Not something any woman should stake her future on.

Birth control is very effective. Guess you haven’t heard if that. Condoms are effective and if you use the argument that a girl should not stake her future on, then you are effectively saying she would be better off without the condom. Not logical.

DP: Wow, you're the one that is not logical here. Someone questioning whether a condom is effective enough to stake your future on is not the same as saying it's not effective at all. Across the population condoms are 98% effective against pregnancy. Given the amount of people having sex during a single college semester at the most fertile time of life that still results in a LOT of unwanted pregnancies. Add in the level of experience using condoms of most 18-19 year olds and the rate is worse.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids are also liberals and chose for themselves which schools to include or exclude.

I also sent each kid (boy and girl) off to college with a Plan B just in case.

But taking it might become a crime in some states. Louisiana has a bill that would consider using Plan B homicide.

Louisiana does not have a bill considering making Plan B a homicide.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids are also liberals and chose for themselves which schools to include or exclude.

I also sent each kid (boy and girl) off to college with a Plan B just in case.

But taking it might become a crime in some states. Louisiana has a bill that would consider using Plan B homicide.

Possessing it will be a crime under Louisiana law.

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Anonymous wrote:I actually only knew two. One from my sorority and one from our junior year abroad program. Mid-1990s. Both were boy-crazy, heavy partiers with low GPAs.

Same, basically the girls who we knew as slutty.

That's because the "slutty" girls didn't keep it a secret in shame for fear of ruining their reputations or futures.

Trust me, I was an abortion clinic volunteer, and despite what the Christians and right-wingers would like you to believe, the #1 demographic who sought out an abortion were 30-45 year old married women who already had kids.

During my entire 5 years there, I can only remember a handful of teen abortions. Likewise, I can only remember a few rape/incest abortions. Promiscuous 20-somethings and horny teenagers were not the ones utilizing the services. Why? IMO, it's because teens and 20-somethings are actively trying NOT to get pregnant. They take lots of precautions. The middle-age women always had stories of becoming lax with their birth control and what a surprise it was.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. I don't want my kid to me a mom as an undergraduate. Schools like Washington University are totally out now that Missouri is criminalizing abortions for people who become pregnant in Missouri regardless of where the procedure is preformed.

Maybe tell her not to sleep around?

+1. It’s like they are expecting their daughters to get pregnant and that it’s routine.

How many women in college have boyfriends? Do you think they just hold hands?

How many women in college haven’t heard of condoms? Do you think they don’t have access to stores?

How effective are condoms? Not something any woman should stake her future on.

Birth control is very effective. Guess you haven’t heard if that. Condoms are effective and if you use the argument that a girl should not stake her future on, then you are effectively saying she would be better off without the condom. Not logical.

DP: Wow, you're the one that is not logical here. Someone questioning whether a condom is effective enough to stake your future on is not the same as saying it's not effective at all. Across the population condoms are 98% effective against pregnancy. Given the amount of people having sex during a single college semester at the most fertile time of life that still results in a LOT of unwanted pregnancies. Add in the level of experience using condoms of most 18-19 year olds and the rate is worse.

98% effective is logical.

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Anonymous wrote:My kids are also liberals and chose for themselves which schools to include or exclude.

I also sent each kid (boy and girl) off to college with a Plan B just in case.

But taking it might become a crime in some states. Louisiana has a bill that would consider using Plan B homicide.

Possessing it will be a crime under Louisiana law.

That is not true whatsoever.

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Anonymous wrote:I actually only knew two. One from my sorority and one from our junior year abroad program. Mid-1990s. Both were boy-crazy, heavy partiers with low GPAs.

Same, basically the girls who we knew as slutty.

That's because the "slutty" girls didn't keep it a secret in shame for fear of ruining their reputations or futures.

Trust me, I was an abortion clinic volunteer, and despite what the Christians and right-wingers would like you to believe, the #1 demographic who sought out an abortion were 30-45 year old married women who already had kids.

During my entire 5 years there, I can only remember a handful of teen abortions. Likewise, I can only remember a few rape/incest abortions. Promiscuous 20-somethings and horny teenagers were not the ones utilizing the services. Why? IMO, it's because teens and 20-somethings are actively trying NOT to get pregnant. They take lots of precautions. The middle-age women always had stories of becoming lax with their birth control and what a surprise it was.

These parents on here talk like college pregnancy is rampant.

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Even if it's not rampant, I'm not taking a risk of losing my child in an emergency situation. No matter how low.

And the effectiveness of condoms argument always makes me think of the Friends episode

Those numbers are ALSO with the caveat that they are used correctly

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I wasn't a slut and I graduated a top college with honors.

I still had an unintended pregnancy at 21.

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Anonymous wrote:I wasn't a slut and I graduated a top college with honors.

I still had an unintended pregnancy at 21.

No one ever thinks they are a slut.