I think that a lot of you have forgotten what its like to be a teenager with raging hormones and dealing with peer pressure. You can teach self-control all you want, but sometimes emotions win out. Its the reason why there are teenage moms, under-age drinkers, and kids being caught doing stupid things all the time. I will teach my kids to abstain, but recognize that if they should choose to disobey, I want to them to have resources readily available to them.

Like my old boss used to say (I used to work in repro/sexual health) - Just because you carry an umbrella, doesn't mean it's going to rain!

Same goes for condoms.

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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.

I'm not aware of any public schools that hand them out like worksheets in class.

Yeah, I've never heard of a school that literally hands them out to all the students, except for maybe once as part of a health class lesson. That would be a little weird. OP, how exactly is your school forcing your child to take one?

Anonymous wrote:I will never understand why a parent would put any barrier (pun intended) between her child and contraception.

Try to visualize the situation in which your kid makes the decision to go to the nurse's office to get a condom. How is that not a moment you can be proud of?

It means your kid has already made the decision to have sex, he's just also making the decision to be responsible about it.

They really want to enjoy those grandkids now! Why wait?

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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.

I'm not aware of any public schools that hand them out like worksheets in class.

OP hasn't come back to clarify if the school is actually handing them out to students or just making them aware of their availability.

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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.

I'm not aware of any public schools that hand them out like worksheets in class.

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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.

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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.

I will never understand why a parent would put any barrier (pun intended) between her child and contraception.

Try to visualize the situation in which your kid makes the decision to go to the nurse's office to get a condom. How is that not a moment you can be proud of?

It means your kid has already made the decision to have sex, he's just also making the decision to be responsible about it.

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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

Why?

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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 your child has so much self control, then being given condoms is not going to make him/her run out and have sex.

Exactly. How does being given a condom undermine his/her self control?

Kids can also buy them at CVS. There's no minimum age for purchase.

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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 your child has so much self control, then being given condoms is not going to make him/her run out and have sex.

Exactly. How does being given a condom undermine his/her self control?

Anonymous wrote:I'm not even sure how this parental opting-out would work.

Yeah, really. Blacklisted kid could just have a friend get them from the nurse for him.

I'm not even sure how this parental opting-out would work.

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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.

And having condos available doesn't make it harder. The idea that your kid will decide to have sex despite consistent instruction in your family values and then suddenly rethink the idea because the nurse tells him no condition in absurd.

Logistically, the reason why kids are willing to get conditions at the nurse when they
Willing to buy them is nevermore it's easy. You slip in grab a couple and go. If you suddenly have to give your first and last name and wait while the nurse looks you up, kids stem going to skip it.

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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 your child has so much self control, then being given condoms is not going to make him/her run out and have sex.