Girls As Young As 12 Being Given The Pill
Filed under: News | By: Kerry
Posted on: December 3, 2007 | 4 Comments
It has been reported that girls as young as 12 are being sold the morning after pill without their parents knowing.
I can tell you now my daughter will not be on the pill at 12 that’s for sure because to me putting children that young on the pill is saying its ok to be active now that’s wrong.
It’s said that a government scheme allows pharmacists to give out the pill after a few basic questions. In 84 per cent of NHS trusts chemists can hand the pill out to underage girls.
I don’t know what you think but it’s said that this scheme has been designed to curb teenage pregnancies but this is just fuelling underage sex don’t you think?
In some ways people might think that it is a good idea but as a mother to a daughter I don’t think so.
Charity the Family Education Trust said: “This will inevitably result in more teenage pregnancies and more sexually transmitted diseases.”
What do you think about all this?
Do you agree or disagree?
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Kerry, in your post you’ve mentioned both ‘The Morning After Pill’ and ‘The Pill’. I’m guessing by ‘The Pill’ you mean the contraceptive pill? If so, then I don’t agree with you that girls shouldn’t be able to go on it at 12 years old.
In many cases, young girls go on the contraceptive pill to regulate their periods and ease period pain. I’m sure many 12 year olds do not see it as a sign they can sleep around. If my daughter, at 12 or 13 years old, was having a hard time with her periods I would definitely consider the contraceptive pill as an option, and I would know she didn’t see it as a sign that it was ok to be having sex because I know I would have educated her well enough about it.
On the other hand, I don’t agree with underage girls being able to get ‘The Morning After Pill’. Sadly, many young girls who have had unprotected sex are often unable to tell their mother or father out of fear and resort to taking action on their own. If parents were to talk to their children more about sex (which is something, as a nation, we don’t do) then teenagers would be much more knowledgeable about sex and the consequences of unprotected sex.
Before we point the blame at the chemists distributing The Morning After Pill, we should take a look at our own parenting skills. Do we talk to our children enough about sex and the consequences? Unfortunately not, teenagers these days learn more about sex from the television and their friends. This is why teenagers today have a warped view on what sex is all about.
You’ve said your daughter will not be going on the Pill at 12 and that you feel it makes young girls think that it’s ok to be sexually active. That’s your opinion and I respect that, but I don’t feel that by taking the contraceptive pill girls think it’s ok to have sex, but that’s because I know I would talk to my daughter openly about it.
I strongly disagree, teenagers should not be given such pills, they will more bold to avoid parents in each and everything, but there should be counceling services for teenage pregnent girls to forward their issues direct to advisors so they could get rid of that all.
Patrick.
“this is just fuelling underage sex don’t you think?” - Who gets to chose what the age of consent is anyway? In Canada its 14, in Togo its 12. Why do we assume that ‘16′ is the universal age of consent and that all people are only ready for sex at that age? The youth should be empowered by education and the availability of contraception - if they want to and are physically capable of having sex then what’s the problem? Anyway, why does alcohol abuse and family break up never get the blame for teenage pregnancies? People just don’t want to face up to the truth, that teenage kids have sex.
teenages are always going to have sex you can’t do anything about it. i known because i am a teenager i found this page doing a year 10 assignment on contraception.and i believe if yuou can’t stop it (and admit it you can’t) at least aid them to do it smartly. if i teens weren’t able to go on the pill or get any form of contraception they would still have sex and the only diffrence would be is that there would be many more teen pregnancies. anyone that does not agree is quite frankly an idiot in my eyes and if you believe you can stop kids having sex then you are also very very nieve.