Originally Posted By: firemachine69
Originally Posted By: BrianWC
I get really depressed hearing my wife talk. She's a pediatrician and seems like every parent bringing an over 10 year old girl in wants them to have birth control and now Gardasil shots to protect from HPV. I think parnets have just given up and resigned themselves to the fact that their parenting is not going to be sufficient so they just don't want to have to deal with any unfortunate consequences ie a unwanted kid or venereal disease.
Gardasil is okay. 5th-8th grade is the proper time to vaccinate. Birth control? A bit odd, but it does tend to "even out" the periods... Or so I hear. Perhaps the parents just want the girl to get in the habit young so she isn't thinking of possible use/necessity for it in the future, and make taking the pill every A.M. a habit? No idea for certain, but it is regardless a bit unnerving...
I disagree. As the father of very young girls, I don't want to imagine them needing Gardasil before they are 30!
Seriously though, the wife tells me I'm silly. But I just see it as a sign of capitation on the part of parents. Maybe tell the girls it's just a vitamin shot?
I dunno. I was in high school in the very early 90's and I believe that by my sophomore year most middle-class girls in my school were on BC. But as far as dressing suggestively, a tight pair of Girbaud or Guess Jeans (or Wranglers for the country gals) was about as suggestive as it got.
The recommendation for Gardasil is for them to take it before they need it. Just thinking back, 10-12 was far before anyone I knew needed it. But I suppose YM(or bases)MV.