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Saturday, September 16, 2006
 
Category: Again
We had the 12-yo on the pill last year and this year a 14-yo. This time the mother made some very important points:
"They have undermined my authority as a parent," she told the Herald Sun.
"My main issue is, we have to consent to everything, like school bus trips. Why not something like that? It is major."
"I cannot take someone else's child and get contraception. What makes the school think they can?"
The mother said she did not believe her daughter wanted the implant.
"But this was a really pushed issue by the school nurse," she said.
"They are forcing the children behind the parents' back. This school is making us look like monsters, and we are not."
The mother said she was also worried about potential health problems. "What if a child had a reaction to it?" she said.
"The parents would not know what was going on."
Maybe you do believe contraception should be dispensed for young girls without parents' knowledge, but the simple question should be enough: What if a child had a reaction to it? We are expected to take all sorts of resposibility for our children (rightly so) but it is assumed that some basics can be taken out of our hands.
Disgusting!

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