Should parents be allowed to opt out of their child receiving condoms?

[Anonymous]

Children are independent human beings, not possessions of their parents. Parents have responsibility but not total control. I do not think parents should be able to opt out of teens accessing condoms.

[Anonymous]

So none of you had sex in high school?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ya’ll are crazy - making them accessible is one thing but just giving them to everyone is taking it a litttle too far.

Yep.

+1

Agree. I’m not at all uptight about sex. I have four adult kids and one older teen. I taught my children responsibility, emotional awareness and safe sex. Not abstinence or wait till marriage nonesense. Still, I don’t think schools need to hand out condoms. Have them easily accessible? Absolutely.

What's the difference?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Which would you rather your child have-- a condom or a baby? Or a condom or an STI?

I'd prefer my child have self control. It's not hard.

If it is not hard, it is not a problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Which would you rather your child have-- a condom or a baby? Or a condom or an STI?

I am teaching my kids that there are other impacts of sex outside of getting pregnant or a STD that a condom or any kind of birth control can't stop. Whether we like to admit it or not, sex is an emotional tie. I would not want the school to give my kids condoms.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Which would you rather your child have-- a condom or a baby? Or a condom or an STI?

I am teaching my kids that there are other impacts of sex outside of getting pregnant or a STD that a condom or any kind of birth control can't stop. Whether we like to admit it or not, sex is an emotional tie. I would not want the school to give my kids condoms.

Do you think that it would induce your kids to disregard your teaching?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Which would you rather your child have-- a condom or a baby? Or a condom or an STI?

I am teaching my kids that there are other impacts of sex outside of getting pregnant or a STD that a condom or any kind of birth control can't stop. Whether we like to admit it or not, sex is an emotional tie. I would not want the school to give my kids condoms.

Do you think that it would induce your kids to disregard your teaching?

This. Plus, other parents don't think the same way as you about the emotional tie so why should easy access to condoms be changed because of your feelings?

[Anonymous]

I see nothing wrong with it. Better to be safe than...well...help raise a grandchild so that my teenaged son can get the education required to be able to get a job that will allow him to provide for his child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Children are independent human beings, not possessions of their parents. Parents have responsibility but not total control. I do not think parents should be able to opt out of teens accessing condoms.

+1000

Also I still can't believe that there are people who think that lack of access to birth control, or lack of thorough sex ed, will somehow stop them from having sex.

[Anonymous]

I feel like the parents objecting to this, would be the first to call a girl a "slut" or "whore" for getting pregnant from sex with their precious baby boy, who apparently is unable to be responsible for himself.

Teach your boys/men to be responsible for themselves and use their own protection.

[Anonymous]

Dear school:
Please give my and all the other kids all the condoms. Thank you.

Love,
Me
Lady who was HELLA sexually active in high school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel like the parents objecting to this, would be the first to call a girl a "slut" or "whore" for getting pregnant from sex with their precious baby boy, who apparently is unable to be responsible for himself.

Teach your boys/men to be responsible for themselves and use their own protection.

Yes! Better to be responsible now and use the condoms from the nurse's office than be responsible for bringing a life into the world while still in high school.

[Anonymous]

I'm still wondering what, specifically, OP wants to opt out of.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ya’ll are crazy - making them accessible is one thing but just giving them to everyone is taking it a litttle too far.

Yep.

+1

Agree. I’m not at all uptight about sex. I have four adult kids and one older teen. I taught my children responsibility, emotional awareness and safe sex. Not abstinence or wait till marriage nonesense. Still, I don’t think schools need to hand out condoms. Have them easily accessible? Absolutely.

What's the difference?

Literally the only difference I see is that in one scenario, the shy kid too scared to ask or go get condoms has protection whereas in the other scenario, the kid walks by the nurse's office knowing they are there, but too scared to go get some.

I know that was the case when I was in HS. Condoms weren't given out to everyone, but in P.E., Health Class, and Sex Ed it was announced that free condoms were available from the school nurse with no questions asked. The kids who had no qualms about going in to ask her for condoms made money off the kids who were too shy or scared to do so. Not even joking.

At our first floor meeting in college, my RA handed out condoms to everyone and then gave us the information on where to get them for free on campus.

[Anonymous]

If your child has self control, they won't need to pick up any condoms. Problem solved.