Yep, heard about it on the news this morning. Some school system somewhere, can't remember where but I'll look it up, is proposing making birth control available WITHOUT parental consent to Middle Schoolers.

Personally, I'm torn on this issue. Being the father of a Middle Schooler girl and being around lots and lots of Middle School young ladies (my wife is the head of Cheerleading for the 8th grade this year) I'm personally torn on this issue.

On one hand, I KNOW for a fact that some wayyyyy too young girls are in fact sexually active. My daughter and I have very clear channels of communication so we talk about this often. She tells me about some of the girls she knows that are sexually active already. We all know and read about teens and pre-teens having babies all the time too. I do volunteer work with the Gwinnett Co. Juvenile court and I can tell yall from first hand experience that some of the most horrific cases of child abuse and neglect seem to start with unwanted pregnancies/children. For this reason, I'd say it may be an idea to keep unwanted pregnancies from happening in the first place.

Now, on the other hand, I also think that sex education and morals are the responsability of the parents in their home. We all know that at 13 we didn't know shiet from shinola, right? So, what's going to happen when a 11-13 yr old THINKS that by simply taking a little pill they are "protected"? Are we going to see a huge spike in STD's and promiscuity?

Discuss.