04-05-2013, 10:25 PM
I have to agree to feeling a bit squeamish about a 12-year-old using Plan B without any idea whether she even knew there was a Plan A. But the only way I can see out of this is to have sexual education lose its stigma and become totally available to any student in any school regardless of how parents may feel about it.
Did anyone see the episode of Friends where Ross learned that a condom isn't 100% effective and he complained that that fact should be printed on the box? And the same for the other male characters? It was a funny schtick but the fact is, people use birth control all the time and DON'T read the box. That's the kind of thing we need to have our children aware of, even if it makes us feel creepy to have them knowing it. Because NOT knowing it doesn't mean they aren't going to have sex -- it just means that eventually (whether younger or older) when they do have sex, they are going to have sex in a state of complete ignorance.
Did anyone see the episode of Friends where Ross learned that a condom isn't 100% effective and he complained that that fact should be printed on the box? And the same for the other male characters? It was a funny schtick but the fact is, people use birth control all the time and DON'T read the box. That's the kind of thing we need to have our children aware of, even if it makes us feel creepy to have them knowing it. Because NOT knowing it doesn't mean they aren't going to have sex -- it just means that eventually (whether younger or older) when they do have sex, they are going to have sex in a state of complete ignorance.