Free condom for high school students vs HIV

Em14 said:
Condom for High School student is a big NO for me. Giving them the idea that condom is safe during sex making them more liberated and have sex more. And its sad to know that at the young age doing sex is not a serious matter.
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Unfortunately in most part of the UK (as I can only comment on teaching observations) the children are likely to engage in high risk behaviour for a variety of reasons. Most teachers do give generalised advice however do not feel empowered to discuss this frankly with students.

The key education for good behaviour is good role models however we adults do not do a good enough job at setting standards and culture. I too am guilty of not enjoying when dramas and media tackle social and political issues and they make this the core focus; it becomes obvious and I believe humans have a natural resistance when they feel subversion. This is what made the transition from the 1950's-Present work; it was naturally progressing. I don't think anyone is giving out contraception without advise.

The risk of removing it would hurt only the poorest in society where teenage pregnancy rises, then say the mother is 14-19 with a similar age child; do you think this child will get a fair chance in life?
- Let me give you one final image this accidental baby is now 16; the cycle repeats but this child has twins or more children later on; this could repeat indefinitely and exponentially. It is essential BOTH contraception (condoms are the cheapest) and health advice.

If you can remember your teenage years, or perhaps some of you are in them; even the best A*/1 students don't follow all the advise they're given and must learn and make mistakes of their own.
 
This is related to teaching sex education in the school. The fact is that students know so much these days. They learn alot from the Internet and sometimes get mislead into taking the wrong steps
 
Actually, I think this law is very good, students will still make sex without this law so, I think if they are taught about protection and advised to use it they will be safer on getting a sexually transmitted disease or have a child at a small age and ruin their future.
 
Students access a lot of content both online and offline.These has effect on their behavior. Students will have sex no with total disregard to school rules.In my opinion let there be condoms so that whenever homornes play tricks on them and self control is out of reach safety is taken care of.The issue of drugs in schools has contributed to immorality.The condoms will curb diseases and early pregnancy.However,this isn't the best approach,learners should be taught values be encouraged to always do what is right.
 
Prevention is better than cure. This is the philosophy health care givers world wide have followed. If we went by this same philosophy we would be investing time and energy in educating our children in moral and acceptable behavior. Since we have failed our children miserably in this area as parents and educators, hence we need to cover our mistakes by distributing condoms. What we need to do right now is to identify the actual problem and work on it. Children at the school age should be focusing on developing their skills and talents to face life, not experimenting with procreation. Why don't we go back to the basics and focus on what we should be doing as parents and teachers instead of letting the lawmakers decide whether they needs to distribute condoms?
 
Of course we are not encouraging minors to engage to premarital sex, however, in as much as we don't want to, but with today's generation young ones are already doing such thing. It is inevitable especially with today's advancing technologies wherein minors are exposed to different immoral acts. With such a young mind who follows more the call of the flesh than the warning of the mind, and to add puberty issues, minors are really subjected to engage to such act. The scariest fact is that we also now have an increasing number of HIV cases, and we all know that one mode of getting such disease is through unprotected sexual intercourse. Therefore, with the right knowledge of the transmission and the ways to avoid such through condoms (to mention some), i believe it is more acceptable now to teach them such ways than to suffer the incurable disease in the future.
 
Corzhens said:
Would you believe that there is a proposed law by the department of health to distribute free condoms to high school students of public schools? That is really outrageous and we are hoping that the health department people will stop in pursuing that initiative. Giving condoms to people is like telling them that they can have safe sex with no side effect of any disease or of getting pregnant. That is one silly proposal.
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Well, I think that distributing free condoms to the students is certainly not advisable. it is like giving them a free license to have sex with each other. However, educating them about Sex and the diseases associated with unprotected sex is very important. Once they get the right kind of sex education at the right age, they will be able to make their informed choices knowing fully well about the risks involved
 
Free condoms , a good idea for reducing the contraction of sexually transmissible diseases, Hiv in particular which has proven to be deadly , it's mobidity is very fast and mortality is gravely undesceibable.
Most students are young and are explorative in there teenage years, kost are controlled by there body undertaking a natural change of "ADOLENCENCE" . The deepening feeling of been overpowered by there natural cause some students to engage in sexual or immoral acts, some are controlled by the use of drugs, drugs influence such that they can lead one into rapping fellow students.
The use of protection should be encouraged by free distribution , easy access as well as imtroducing sex education among students.
 
Mwewa72 said:
Free condoms , a good idea for reducing the contraction of sexually transmissible diseases, Hiv in particular which has proven to be deadly , it's mobidity is very fast and mortality is gravely undesceibable.
Most students are young and are explorative in there teenage years, kost are controlled by there body undertaking a natural change of "ADOLENCENCE" . The deepening feeling of been overpowered by there natural cause some students to engage in sexual or immoral acts, some are controlled by the use of drugs, drugs influence such that they can lead one into rapping fellow students.
The use of protection should be encouraged by free distribution , easy access as well as imtroducing sex education among students.
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You hit the nail on the head. Being explorative will most likely cause the students to try the condom for size, so to speak. It is good if the testing of the condom is by himself but what if he tries to find a partner to try it? The condom is a very personal item that should be not bandied in public. If the school will be distributing free condoms then it is like saying the students can use it for their own purposes.
 
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