How young is too young for a girl to start using birth control? Well, apparently a Maine school thinks that 11 years-old might be the right age after they announced they're considering distributing birth control pills and patches to students as young as 11 years-old. As you can imagine, the story isn't really endearing to parents who feel as though the program could entice their children to become sexually active.
The school claims to have come across this solution after it found out that five of the 135 students that visited their health center admitted to being sexually active. So the response of the school is to distribute birth control to the girls of the school since they already give out free condoms. When I was in middle school, we got free lollipops in the health center, which looking back was probably a bad thing, too, cause of sugar and cavities and stuff. In fact, I want to say I didn't even know what condoms and birth control were, but I honestly don't remember.
Either way, giving these out to kids so young is debatable. Should the school require parent's permission in order to distribute the birth control or is it acceptable to do so? I imagine that most people would have different ideals surrounding this decision.
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