What are we doing to Our CHILDREN??

I am outraged.

What are we doing to our children?

We require signed consent of parent to have the ear lobes pierced of a girl OR boy under age 18.

We require signed parental consent of a parent to TREAT a child under the age of 18 in any medical facility, but in an emergency, try VERY hard to get telephone/verbal consent. We require the same for any surgical procedure, including tonsillectomy, appendectomy, TOOTH EXTRACTION, (any dental work, INCLUDING FLUORIDE TREATMENT and PROPHY -- 'cleaning' -- and Sealants!)

Schools will not give a child a Tylenol for a headache without parental consent! They won't give ANY medication without parental consent... AND they often additionally require a written Dr's statement that it is NEEDED before the school nurse will give it!

We suspend a child for giving a classmate TYLENOL (AND the one who had the headache!), because there is a 'no drug' policy in the school.....

Pat Baum, a school nurse in Columbus, said such a strict policy also protected children against inadvertently taking a medication to which they might be allergic.

"It sounds on the surface like this is a real crazy, picky thing to do," Ms. Baum said. "But you don't know if the child's going to be allergic." Acceptance and a Fight

Wilson officials suspended the girls, Dana Merry and Michelle Wines, for five days last week and said they could have been expelled.

Somewhere along the way, we begin to put condoms in school bathrooms.

THEN we begin to get more ridiculous....we pass laws that tell us that for an ABORTION (NOTE WELL - - A SURGICAL PROCEDURE!!!!) a child under the age of 18 does NOT need parental notification. Furthermore, if a girl shows up in an abortuary who is under the so-called 'age of consent', not only do they NOT need parental consent, the fact that a CHILD IS PREGNANT under the age of consent is ALSO not reported ...

Funny, but if I suspect abuse of any kind, I am REQUIRED/MANDATED to report it as a health professional , BY LAW.
( read about P A N D A  for dental professionals ) NOTE those in the list on the first link that are MANDATED to report suspected child abuse ... ).

Yet, if I work in an abortuary, not only do I NOT need parental consent of an 11 yr old, 14 yr old, 16 yr old... I also do not need to report SEXUAL ABUSE of a MINOR if that child is under the legal age of consent for ANY sex???

And NOW, in Maine, the schools, which CANNOT give TYLENOL without my consent, CAN GIVE MY DAUGHTER BIRTH CONTROL without my KNOWLEDGE? As young as 11???? And in any area dealing with sex...'there are kids who may not be able to talk to their parents' becomes the mantra.............

WHAT ARE WE DOING TO OUR CHILDREN???

I was not diagnosed with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome until I was in my twenties, and we were having trouble getting pregnant. When I was a bit younger, I had gone to an OB/GYN due to having irregular periods, and instead of DIAGNOSING me, the MD put me on the PILL to 'REGULATE YOU'... one problem. The PILL made already dormant ovaries MORE dormant, and ADDED to the problem. There is a school of thought out there that artificial hormones need to be avoided by anyone with PCOS.

There is not one medical person able to know that a child may have this or any other reason to stay away from artificial birth control. At the ages these school people may give a young girl the Pill, even a parent may not know of any health reason she should not be on it!

Morally, ethically, legally, it is WRONG for a child that age to have sex, much less be ON THE PILL (as far as I am concerned, it is the same for  Gardasil ). We put people in prison for having sex with kids that young! We label them as sex -offenders, pedophiles. We set up 'stings' via the Internet to catch those who are soliciting sex from children online, and we arrest for child pornography!! We have children kidnapped, raped, murdered by predators.

TEEN-aged boys who happen to be Seniors, dating Sophomores have been caught in that sexual predator trap when they happen to be 18, and the girl happens to be 15!

And NOW WE ARE GOING TO PROVIDE BIRTH CONTROL FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS???

I am outraged as I listen to the explanations and the justifications for this decision! I am outraged as I hear that it won't be very many students... ONE is too many! I am outraged when I hear that parents have to 'opt out' of student health care in order to KNOW that their child will not be given chemicals  without their PERMISSION at the tender ages of 11-14 yrs of age!

WHAT ARE WE DOING TO OUR CHILDREN????