Dude, I plan on introducing my girls to birth control almost as soon as they get their periods, as a means of controlling the symptoms if nothing else. I suffered through YEARS of really agonizing periods and nobody frickin' told me that it was COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY until I was, like, 25 and my doctor mentioned oh, yeah, there are birth control methods where you DON'T GET A PERIOD. I was like, WTF, where were you when I was 14?
God, that's awful! I had such horrible menstrual symptoms that my gynecologist put me on the Pill when I was 11 (I started my period when I was 9). It was amazing. Cramps much better, no more vomiting for 2 days a month....
Birth control pills are medication. Parents have no right to know what medicine their _children_ are on? Pre-adult, not of legal age, dependant, in the care of- children?
IMHO, no, I really don't think that parents have the right to know whether their kids are taking birth control pills. Any other medicine, sure, but birth control is a personal agency / sexual health / responsibility issue, not a straight out health issue
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Yeah, this issue split and resplits a bit. It may have more implications than other mediciines, but it is medical treatment, and my minor children will not receive non-emergency medical treatment without my authorization. As it is the pill, a lot more issues crop up which are separate. The Pill does not prevent conception, so the fact that sometimes conception occurs and the fertilized egg aborts is a further issue for us. And after another split of the issue, my children do not set the moral standards by which they are being raised. They will conform to our views on the appropriate role of sexuality as we are their parents and we are raising them. When they are independent and have to face things without us I hope we have prepared them well.
Hmmm. Well, not having kids, and not particularly wanting them, I have to defer to you on a lot of this stuff. I remember being a very responsible teenager (in fact, I think I've gotten less responsible over time), so were I to have a kid like me, I imagine that I'd trust her to take the Pill or not on her own initiative. But I don't know that for sure
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Mmmm. Agreed. But I also think that in the case of birth control, the parents have no right to know, either. Many parents (particularly in the US) would stop their kids from taking it, because they have moral issues with it.
Oops, I should have replied to elrikard's post there :)
I'm with you on this issue, but would regard someone as slightly less insane if they were to argue that parents should know, than if they were to argue that parental consent should be required.
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Parents might have a right to know that their kid is on, say, asthma medication, but they certainly shouldn't be allowed to withhold it.
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I'm with you on this issue, but would regard someone as slightly less insane if they were to argue that parents should know, than if they were to argue that parental consent should be required.
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