This is a great idea! We don't need unwanted babies! Unwanted meaning the mother can't take care of the child. Because you know what happens, a young person gets pregnant while still in school, and the baby must be raised by the grandparent, or the mother drops out and goes on welfare. I'm tired of paying for these irresponsible young (and sometimes older) women having kids that they cannot afford!

Stupid Idea, promotes underage sex and disregards the fact that underage sex is a criminal act.

I would love to see the wording of the survey.  My take on this is that if worded right, you could get 67 % of the surveyed people to agree with anything you wished to promote.

There are kids in MIDDLE SCHOOL having babies. If they are going to do it, they'll do it with or without birth control. They aren't going to just suddenly start having sex because they're on birth control! If anything it promotes not having babies before you are ready! And I'm all for that. I get really tired of seeing 18 year olds that already have 2 or 3 kids. It is a drain on our community. Not to mention that 30% of my hard earned paycheck goes to paying for these babies!

In a way I guess I have to agree. I am living in a fantasy world if I think parents will teach responsibility.  Go ahead world, go to hell in a handbasket.  Legalize everything, drugs, underage sex, mutilating our children, gay marriage, pedophilia, murder, theft. Hey I know, anarchy!!!    

The response of, "we can't do anything about it anyway"  seems to be what everyone can agree on.

Changing my name to Travis Bickle.

Great idea. There are enough children born into this world without parents to love, and care for them. Underage pregnacy not only lessons the chance of success of the child, but the mother aswell. Atleast people are finally looking at the problem, and not turning there heads to it. Parents never want to admit there child might be sexually active, and the child never wants to tell there parents. This just might work

Something is really wrong with us and it seems that we are too far gone as a society to know it.  THESE ARE CHILDREN PEOPLE - NOT DOGS!  Oh, but that's right - there would be much more outrage and even compassion if someone was talking about giving dogs something without their owners' consent.  

The rights of parents are being eroded and we are sacrificing our children and their childhood at the altar of convenience.  Get up off your butts and do something to change the world instead of pushing pills all the time!

Eyes on the Prize- Yes, there IS something wrong with our society. And that is far too many kids having kids. They are taking away their own childhood! And bringing children into the world that they cannot properly care for! And the government has to deal with this problem. Like Guppy said, the mother and child have less chance at success in this situation. And then they end up on welfare, and it's highly likely that they will start a life of crime. We can do something to control and help this problem. It's ignorant not to do something!

In response to M:  Yes, it is ignorant not to do something - but putting children on birth control pills and giving them HPV shots is not the way out.  The birth control pill has been around for decades and we still have millions of what can be termed "unwanted" pregnancies and subsequent births each year.  I'm just saying that the problem is more complicated than the answer that is being suggested.  Just like the answer to guns and violence in the schools will not be solved by more metal detectors.  It's as though we have no will to get involved enough to change things.  We say that the problem is too big for us - so send in the magic pill.   We pretend that all is right with our world while the decadence in our society creeps up around us - administered one pill at a time.  The problems didn't start with our kids.  They are just living out what they see around them. We must all look for ways to make a difference and then go to it.    

Ok, I want to clear up a few things here. First off, underage sex isn't illegal, but an overage person having sex with underage person is. Two 13 year-olds can and do get it on all the time and there are no charges that can be brought. I would also like to point out that there are enough children already having sex that it is very important to do some damage control. I teach middle school and college. I know for a fact that I have some "active" children. They are already making adult decisions, and they are certainly unprepared for the consequences. They have no idea how to protect themselves, and live in a climate of poverty that encourages misinformation and acceptance of the current status quo. A lack of birth control has a far greater impact on the lives of my little girl students. It isn't the fathers dropping out of school to take care of the new baby. We live in a society where close to 30% of women will report being battered at some point in their life--of course the statistic is really much higher. This number dramatically increases when poverty is added as a statistical factor. This number is also dramatically affected by education level. The key to pulling this part of the community out of poverty is to invest and educate little girls. This goal is complicated greatly when another baby enters the picture. It is true that this is not a panacea, but just because you don't have a cure doesn't mean you can't start treating syptoms. I also think we need some serious self-esteem building things put in place for these girls. Often they turn to sex as a short-term empowerment scheme. What they fail to realize is that this is a short-lived version of power and attention. Eventually, their youth will fail them and they will be left with nothing but extra mouths to feed--essentially proliferating the original problem with a subsequent generation. As for the HPV shot...I can only quote my grandma, "If they made a shot that would stop a man's penis from rotting off, you better believe that every boy would get it." The HPV vaccine clearly doesn't prevent most HPV, but it does prevent most of the types that cause UTERINE CANCER! This is a serious health threat, and anyone who does not at least researching this vaccine and weighing the real pros and cons is doing their female children a disservice. If you are worried about promiscuity, take your 9 year-old down for some booster shots and don't even tell them they are getting the uterine cancer shot.

I think that we are puttin way too much emphasis on birth control pills. The birth of a child should be the least of a parents concern when it comes to their children having sex. STDs should be the concern. Giving birth control will not help anyone who contracts an STD. While birth control my have it's perks,  it also has it's draw backs. Heart disease is the leading cause of death among women. Every advertisement for birth control tell you that it has serious risks: heart disease, stroke, blood clots. Smoking increases those risks. How many of the women who die from heart disease have taken birth control for years and years? We should be teaching our children to abstain( I know, not going to happen). If they are going to have sex WEAR A CONDOM!..Give condoms out in school!..They protect against pregnancy and STDs. I plan to give all of my children condoms and preach to them to use them. My mom did and I listened. That goes for sons and daughters. Stop worrying about whether or not your child is going to get pregnant. Start worrying about whether your child will contract a disease that will never go away!

That would be idiotic! Doing this would only promote underage sex. Or maybe the schools now want their teachers to also show the students the proper use of these birth control devices too! I mean that would be a good reason for teacher/student sex wouldn't it?

I think the schools need to concentrate on trying to teach their students the lessons of the day and let the parents worry about giving their children birth control.

I think when the parents' insurance refuse to cover their underaged daughters pregnancy is when we will have a real discussion on this. I guess since its not your daughter getting knocked up that we shouldn't consider something that halts these young girls egg from becoming fertilized. No mater how much you wish it, pray it away teen pregancy will be an issue thats here to stay. To me if your daughter is on the pill and getting more turns on her than a door knob that its not the school or states fault but the parents for not teaching any morals. The state sees this as an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure. Oh, and for you pious ones reading this, there is always private school you can send your daughter to.  

it will not promote underage sex. if they get bc its because they are alreayd having it and are to embarrsed to tell their parents. im a teen mom and didnt want to tell my mom im still with the father i graduated highschool were doing good but most stories arent like mine they are just with the guy for one night. get knocked up. leave the girl. there are more student shaving sex oral and reg then people think jus tbecause thye are the smart student or the "goodie goodie" dosent mean they arent having sex.

I think there should be a survey if parents of kids in school who've had children should be incarcerated/sterilized for not doing their job as a parent and thus having a child with child who has no clue how to be a parent either.