All San Francisco middle school students now have easy access to condoms, whether or not their parents want them to have them.They're going to encourage what any thinking adult knows is unwise (what junior high kid is emotionally ready for sex?) because 5% already do it? 5%?
The San Francisco Unified School District became the third in California – after Oakland and Los Angeles – to give away condoms to middle schoolers when board members unanimously approved the decision at a meeting Tuesday night, NBC Bay Area reports.
SFUSD safety and wellness director Kevon Gogin said the decision is based on a survey of sixth through eighth grade students that showed about 5 percent are sexually active and 3 percent use condoms.
How can we as a society hold parents responsible for anything their children do when the government (the school system) undermines parental authority and responsibility?
Are kids going to start having sex merely because they have access to condoms? (My read: No, not in any significant way.) In other words, "kids who will have sex without condoms" ~= "kids who will have sex with condoms." Do you disagree?
ReplyDeleteYou can balance that against the other side: Are the kids who WILL have sex anyway, gaining a real benenfit? I think the answer is yes.
Ah, but Uncle Sugar is the solution to ALL problems!
ReplyDeleteIndividual responsibility?! What kind of idiot ever believed in that?
Anonymous: *someone* benefits with *every* government program. That isn't the question. The question is whether or not government *should* do what it's doing.
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