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Condom Cards for 12-year-olds
Monday 08 June 2009
A new government scheme will see boys as young as 12 handed condom cards a system allowing them to get their hands on free contraceptives without their parents knowing.
The taxpayer-funded scheme will allow them to purchase condoms by showing their plastic credit card at football grounds, barber shops and scout huts saving them the embarrassment of visiting a sex clinic or pharmacy.
The cards are only given to boys who have attended a safe-sex lesson.
The Government are hoping the condom cards will help to reduce teenage pregnancy and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Theyre also hoping to make boys more responsible for contraception.
The voices of family campaigners, however tell a different story.
The growth of the condom cards, or C-Cards as they are now being called, have aggravated these campaigners, who believe they send the wrong message to impressionable teenage boys about underagwe sex.
Josephine Quintavalle, founder of the pressure group Comment on Reproductive Ethics, said: We are just facilitating and encouraging sexuality without any deeper understanding of the emotional side of relationships.
We used to talk about recreational sex among 18-year-olds now it is 13-year-olds.
Condom cards schemes are normally aimed at teenagers between the ages of 13 and 20.
However, these boundaries can be pushed a little lower - to younger children who may already be sexually active.
C-Card schemes run in Reading, Bath, Brighton, Bradford, Cambridgeshire and Kent.
A spokesman for the Department of Children, Schools and Families said: The Governments teenage pregnancy strategy is focused on encouraging young people to delay early sex but to practise safe sex as and when they do become sexually active.
What do you make of this controversial new scheme? Do you have teenage children? Would you be happy knowing that they have access to contraceptives so young?
This was on the closer website = ]
Monday 08 June 2009
A new government scheme will see boys as young as 12 handed condom cards a system allowing them to get their hands on free contraceptives without their parents knowing.
The taxpayer-funded scheme will allow them to purchase condoms by showing their plastic credit card at football grounds, barber shops and scout huts saving them the embarrassment of visiting a sex clinic or pharmacy.
The cards are only given to boys who have attended a safe-sex lesson.
The Government are hoping the condom cards will help to reduce teenage pregnancy and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Theyre also hoping to make boys more responsible for contraception.
The voices of family campaigners, however tell a different story.
The growth of the condom cards, or C-Cards as they are now being called, have aggravated these campaigners, who believe they send the wrong message to impressionable teenage boys about underagwe sex.
Josephine Quintavalle, founder of the pressure group Comment on Reproductive Ethics, said: We are just facilitating and encouraging sexuality without any deeper understanding of the emotional side of relationships.
We used to talk about recreational sex among 18-year-olds now it is 13-year-olds.
Condom cards schemes are normally aimed at teenagers between the ages of 13 and 20.
However, these boundaries can be pushed a little lower - to younger children who may already be sexually active.
C-Card schemes run in Reading, Bath, Brighton, Bradford, Cambridgeshire and Kent.
A spokesman for the Department of Children, Schools and Families said: The Governments teenage pregnancy strategy is focused on encouraging young people to delay early sex but to practise safe sex as and when they do become sexually active.
What do you make of this controversial new scheme? Do you have teenage children? Would you be happy knowing that they have access to contraceptives so young?
This was on the closer website = ]
