Tue, 2011-04-19 11:18
Students in Philadelphia middle schools are experimenting with sex and officials have decided to make condoms available to children as young as 11 to help protect them against STDs.
For now, the rubbers are available via a mail-order site.
Gary Bell, executive director of a non-profit that works with teens to prevent HIV, said the move is a direct response to what they’ve witnessed taking place in the schools.
“Kids are cutting school in the afternoon and leaving early to go have orgies,” Bell told ABC News. “The parents are not home and so they go there and have sex and trade partners."
What do you think? Is making condoms accessible to middle schoolers a good idea, or does it encourage kids to experiment? Are you surprised by how involved the students' sexual experimentation is?
Sat, 2011-09-03 21:24
#1
Tracy Scott's article about 11 year old's getting condoms in Phi
I'm a 36 year old woman who came of age during the teen pregnancy era. That was the big thing along with the intro of crack in my neighborhood. Teen parents were popping up left and right, Ebony had articles on it..Everyone was talking about it...remember "babies having babies" song...Well, at that time and now the debate was "we know they are having sex, so lets give them the condoms vs. were going to look like were promoting pre-marital sex". I'm not surprised that youngins are experimenting b/c their parents who came of age with me were not fully matured so their are some key pieces of parenthood 101 alot of them are missing. This day and age is much more "in your face" more so than with my era. Alot of elders thought my age was "too much and too fast" then. So, the youth now, I can only imagine what and who they are doing. You know it's happening, and you will always have a dilemma of "maybe its promoting to some, that premarital sex is okay". But yet, you can't ignore that they are having sex at 11. It's like imagine how many young girls are going to be unaware that they are walking around with an STD, and then become infertile, all b/c they were too young to even know they needed to be tested. Imagine all of the HIV/AIDS discoveries in pediatrician's offices. I say distribute them, ASAP. As T.I says...ASAP, ASAP...*Great forum, and even though I will still make comments in the entertainment section also, like what is the deal that alot of people have viewed this and not taken the time to comment about something so serious. Yet, will take the time to comment about the Game and gays? (although I will comment on that also) REALLY PARENTS, WE CAN COMMENT ABOUT SERIOUS THINGS AND THINGS THAT ARE MAYBE NOT SO SERIOUS! Very interesting.
Thu, 2011-04-28 12:03
#2
Yes to Safe Sex
Kids are already experimenting, so providing condoms is simply a response. Obviously kids have already learned TO have sex, but what they probably don't know is how to have SAFE sex (perhaps their parents don't either?), so this is imperative. It's a bit too late to be conservative about sex ed.