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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If my 16 year old son is not mature enough to buy himself condoms and if he doesn't have the good sense to understand that he is in no way ready to become a dad then he has no business having sex.  He isn't ready.  He is too damn young to handle the responsibility of being sexually active.

Yes, make sure that they have basic sex ed. This is not something to be ignorant about.  But it isn't a parent's place to be supplying condoms to the kid.

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+ 100000000000000000000[/quote]  I'm a pp that said I started having sex at 15.   I would have never ever gone into a store at that age and purchased condoms  and I sure as Hell wouldn't have asked my parents to put me on the pill.  And Hell no, I wasn't ready to be a mother.  But guess, what?   I had sex anyway, and the guy I was with did not have a condom either. I didn't end up pregnant but I damn sure could have.    Take your own advice, don't be ignorant, teens are having sex. Don't be that parent that ends up with an unintended teen pregnancy on your hands because it' wasn't your place to ensure your kid had proper birth control and knew how to use it. [/quote]

Would you expect the parents who provide these condoms to also make sure that the kids are actually using them??  Because if the children are not mature enough to find a way to buy a condom between the two of them then they are not likely to understand the reason for using a condom either.

Sex is a grown up responsibility with very real grown up and lifelong consequences.  Children have no business having sex. None.[/quote]    My kid knows all the reasons to use a condom. My husband and I have explained it all.  And we made sure he has them if he never needs them.  We can't physically make sure he uses them but we can do everything reasonable to ensure he is fully aware of what a huge responsibility this is.  I do more than provide "basic sex ed."  That's what he got in school, we have honest conversations about the responsibilities, the pros and cons, and what it all means.     Do you also think it's not a parent's place to assist your daughter in getting birth control?  Say,  an IUD or the pill?[/quote]

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