[GovernmentShrinker]

But one parent of a 12-year-old girl said: “I was horrified. “They’re trying to take away any control that parents have. “If you give children an easy option it’s not teaching them how to be responsible or accountable for their actions.”

Any parent whose 11-year-old is: 1) in a government-run school 2) roaming around doing whatever she pleases with whomever she pleases without a parent's knowledge 3) afraid she's pregnant 4) choosing not to tell a parent

has no business whining about OTHER PEOPLE not teaching children to be responsible and accountable for their actions.

Enough already, with this sanctimonious crap. The government schools urgently need to pass out emergency contraception to any kid who asks for it, to avoid another, much larger generation of totally irresponsible parents and uncivilized kids. They clearly need to be passing it out to 10-year-olds too, since British government stats show that 4 10-year-olds gave birth last year.

[tip of the sword]

Do you actually believe what you are advocating?

[muawiyah]

It's only a very small step to making the argument that it would be advantageous to the state, as well as the hard pressed ratepayers, to provide a postpartem abortion to the young girls' mothers.

That way everyone can have all the messiness of contraception, it's failure and it's success, removed from the school system.

Life would be much easier for the teachers.

I am sure you would agree, eh?!

[WOSG]

where's your sarcasm mark????
you seem to advocate keeping parents in the dark if their kid is a slut... as for "in a Govt-run school" some parents cant afford otherwise. Get real! Giving *anything* to 11 year olds without parents permission/notification, let alone morning after pills (ewww), is a SHOCKING abrogation of parental rights.

[Lorianne]

If its Ends Justify the Means tactics we're advocating, I'd rather see the boys snipped than 10-11 year old girls drugged. Thanks but no thanks.