tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16768178.post3527158200115024691..comments2023-10-16T07:40:38.179-05:00Comments on Hear me Roar: Glenn Beck & Bill Donahue tie for IDIOT of the year awardUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16768178.post-30644441178985645062007-10-24T06:14:00.000-05:002007-10-24T06:14:00.000-05:00Okay. here is one place where I find myself on the...Okay. here is one place where I find myself on the wishy-washy edge of liberalism. <BR/><BR/>Do I like the thought of 11-13 year old girls having sex, getting pregnant, or having birth control without parental consent? No. I don't like any of these things. In fact, I am not a huge fan at all at the idea of the school dispensing these meds. As an educator, I really feel that the best thing the school could do is have massive, effective, powerful girl's health nights where parents and daughters can come and hear about the statistics of the district when it comes to underage pregnancy. And then if the school is concerned, they can call the parent and refer them to a doctor, period. I don't think it's right for the school to circumvent the parent's role.<BR/><BR/>HOWEVER (and this is a big however)<BR/><BR/>Modern parents, I feel, have given up so much of their parental responsibilities to schools because they are a) uncomfortable or b) too busy. Anyone else heard the excuse that it's the school's job to teach kids right from wrong? Like Tobes said in her last post, if parents and kids have an open, honest, and close relationship than the kids are less likely to become sexually active, and thus, get pregnant. So, in the face of a teen pregnancy crisis, it isn't really fair for parents to pass off the battle to the school's and then cut their legs out from under them. <BR/><BR/>What I DO think is that family practitioner's should be prescribing birth control to these 11-13 year olds at their 7th grade physicals-- mandated by the state. This is the time when most girls get their first pelvic exam; at this point I think it would be totally appropriate for a doctor to ask if they are interested in having birth control, and the patient-doctor privilege is extended at that point.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com