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Should teenagers be given free condoms?

Should teenagers be given free condoms?

  • Of course! They need to have sex safely

    Votes: 47 50.5%
  • No, it only encourages them

    Votes: 23 24.7%
  • Other(Please elaborate)

    Votes: 23 24.7%

  • Total voters
    93
So you admit that our culture is the problem.

Not really. I think the main reason for teens' risky behaviors is the fact that their brains are still under development. They don't have fear, and that has nothing to do with culture. If anything, our culture would probably instill even more fear into them but it doesn't seem to be the case.

I'm quite sure that even back in your old fashioned days that you pine for, girls were sent away for getting pregnant. You just didn't hear about it. Things like that were not discussed in an open manner back then.

Another point to keep in mind is the population explosion we had in the recent history. There are more people which means more teens and more of them making mistakes.
 
Not really. I think the main reason for teens' risky behaviors is the fact that their brains are still under development. They don't have fear, and that has nothing to do with culture. If anything, our culture would probably instill even more fear into them but it doesn't seem to be the case.

I'm quite sure that even back in your old fashioned days that you pine for, girls were sent away for getting pregnant. You just didn't hear about it. Things like that were not discussed in an open manner back then.

It was the exception not the rule.
 
It was the exception not the rule.

That's absolutely untrue. Teen girls have ALWAYS gotten pregnant. Most first-time mothers, in our generation and in the past, are teenagers.
 
That's absolutely untrue. Teen girls have ALWAYS gotten pregnant. Most first-time mothers, in our generation and in the past, are teenagers.

Let me clarify, I'm talking about unmarried teens.
 
Let me clarify, I'm talking about unmarried teens.

Most teenagers do not get married nowadays because they need to complete an education which takes time. It's all technology induced.
 
Let me clarify, I'm talking about unmarried teens.

Because we raised the age of marriage in order to allow people to become better educated. They were still married at younger ages and therefore also pregnant at younger ages. They also lived fewer years, so they had to start earlier having children. That is no longer necessary. It goes along with the "things change". And with that comes changes in how we deal with issues such as teen pregnancy (whether those teens are married or not, since very few people in this day and age want teenagers in high school getting married, so it is stupid to separate teen pregnancies between those who are married and those who aren't in the US).
 
Because we raised the age of marriage in order to allow people to become better educated. They were still married at younger ages and therefore also pregnant at younger ages. They also lived fewer years, so they had to start earlier having children. That is no longer necessary. It goes along with the "things change". And with that comes changes in how we deal with issues such as teen pregnancy (whether those teens are married or not, since very few people in this day and age want teenagers in high school getting married, so it is stupid to separate teen pregnancies between those who are married and those who aren't in the US).

No it's not. That's morality.
 
If you want to go that route, how do you know it was just like it is today?

I don't know if the numbers are exactly correct today, but that doesn't bolster your claim at all. Plus, it seems like we're more likely to get accurate statistics if we're more open about sex.
 
Because we raised the age of marriage in order to allow people to become better educated. They were still married at younger ages and therefore also pregnant at younger ages. They also lived fewer years, so they had to start earlier having children. That is no longer necessary. It goes along with the "things change". And with that comes changes in how we deal with issues such as teen pregnancy (whether those teens are married or not, since very few people in this day and age want teenagers in high school getting married, so it is stupid to separate teen pregnancies between those who are married and those who aren't in the US).

It's like some people are like, NO sex education for kids, NO condom program for kids. We want to go back to the old days when teenagers were married off at the oldest 17 years old and start making babies immediately, with no thought or consideration whatsoever about how life has changed since then. Some people are SO blinded by their ideologies that it seems as though they can't think clearly. It's not like we can go backwards in time and ignore technology and how it has changed our lives quite drastically since some of these old folks were young.
 
No it's not. That's morality.

Again, morality is subjective. And whether people are getting married at younger ages has nothing to do with morality and everything to do with changes in society. People live longer, get more education, and have figured out that younger people tend to not make the best choices about relationships.
 
Again, morality is subjective. And whether people are getting married at younger ages has nothing to do with morality and everything to do with changes in society. People live longer, get more education, and have figured out that younger people tend to not make the best choices about relationships.

Your opinion.
 
Here we go again.
 
They already get them for free. I work at a WalMart and trust me, that is one of the top theft items in the store......along with pregnancy test!!!
 
They already get them for free. I work at a WalMart and trust me, that is one of the top theft items in the store......along with pregnancy test!!!

Not all teenagers are thieves.

And making them available at school would then likely have an additional bonus of reducing the theft of condoms from stores. Unless it is really adults stealing them, and not teenagers at all.
 
Not all teenagers are thieves.

And making them available at school would then likely have an additional bonus of reducing the theft of condoms from stores. Unless it is really adults stealing them, and not teenagers at all.

They can buy them or they can jerk off.

No ****s will be given.
 
They can buy them or they can jerk off.

No ****s will be given.

Making them available at school, especially when at least some are donated or paid for through other means, helps reduce pregnancy rates and STD rates within those schools that have started the program.

School Condom Availability
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/19/education/board-to-vote-on-condoms-in-boston-schools.html?_r=0

It cost much less to provide condoms for free to students than to support them having a child at that age or to pay for their meds/treatment when they get an STD/HIV. The cost savings are enough to justify it.
 
Making them available at school, especially when at least some are donated or paid for through other means, helps reduce pregnancy rates and STD rates within those schools that have started the program.

School Condom Availability
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/19/education/board-to-vote-on-condoms-in-boston-schools.html?_r=0

It cost much less to provide condoms for free to students than to support them having a child at that age or to pay for their meds/treatment when they get an STD/HIV. The cost savings are enough to justify it.

If they are too god damned stupid to not use one, or too ****ing lazy or cheap to go out and buy them..... then they deserve to deal with that ****.

Allow them to buy them in stores.
Encourage them to use them.
But if you think you are setting teens up for success by giving out free condoms in school based on the false premise that they won't go out and buy their own because they are too dumb........ thats just stupid.


And im not arguing this due to some sort of "OH NOES ITS GOING TO ENCOURAGE TEENS TO ****" aspect.


I find this idea an extension of the bull**** "coddling" of teens that keeps on and keeps on in America. Quit coddling teens and let them face reality, they earned it.
 
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