Should birth control be available on campus? No.

Although many teens may not want to admit it, there are certain things we don’t feel comfortable telling our parents. And sex certainly falls in that category.

Not all students have a caring, understanding parent at home to discuss the uncomfortable topics with. If a teenage girl isn’t very close to her mom, or maybe they fight a lot, she wouldn’t ever dare to speak the word “sex” in the house.

It’s time for parents and school officials to realize that teenage sexual activity is a reality, so now they need to figure out the best way to protect the teens who make that decision.

And teens aren’t the only ones making these decisions. Pre-teens have now entered the sexually active group of the population. Many middle schools have recently had problems concerning girls becoming pregnant at a very young age.

One solution to this problem is to make contraceptives available at schools.

In high school every student has to take a sex education course. This course usually revolves around the theory of abstinence. But maybe now the course should also focus on how students can and should protect themselves from unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. Not only should students be educated about this, schools should also provide protection for the students who choose to engage in sexual activity.

Protection doesn’t only mean protection from becoming pregnant. Sexually transmitted diseases are now becoming prevalent in US adolescents. A recent study has shown that one in four of teenage girls suffer from a S.T.D. This incredible statistic shows that something needs to be done.

The next thing is to make contraceptives available to teens in a non-threatening and comfortable environment. By making birth control available, many more teens will seek it in order to be safe. I’m not saying that the schools should hand out contraceptives in the classrooms, but it should be readily available, perhaps at the health office.

A lot of people think that by offering birth control to the students, it will promote sexual activity. However, what these people don’t realize is that the kids who want to have sex are already having sex. The kids who don’t want to have sex aren’t. By making contraceptives available to those students who want to have sex, the schools could be helping to protect against unwanted pregnancies and terrible diseases.

Obviously schools shouldn’t suggest that sex is a good choice for any student, but instead aid the students in keeping themselves safe and healthy.

However, if some parents resumed their parental responsibilities in educating their children about these private matters, then all this hubbub wouldn’t even be necessary.

But in the end, schools have to decide if they want that teenage girl who couldn’t talk to her mom about sex to wind up in the 25% of girls her age who have a S.T.D.

And I don’t think any adult would want that to happen.

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