Condoms (And More) For Kids - In Maine, The Source Of Blame Is Painfully Plain by Doug Wrenn

Condoms (And More) For Kids - In Maine, The Source Of Blame Is Painfully Plain

By Doug Wrenn

October 22, 2007

A controversial new plan now being considered in Portland, Maine may allow school officials to administer various forms of contraception to middle school children as young as 11 years old.

The proposal is being considered to expound further on an already existing policy of distributing condoms to kids in Portland's King Middle School, via the school's "health center." That program has been in effect since 2000.

According to Kelly Bouchard's October 16th online article from the Portland Press Herald, "Prescribe 'The Pill' At Middle School?" of the 134 students who visited the school's alleged health center in school year 2006/2007, 4% reported having sexual intercourse. According to the Maine Youth Risk Behavior Survey, 13% of Maine middle school students admitted to engaging in sexual intercourse in 2005, although that figure was down 10% from 1997.

Currently, seven so-called health centers exist in Portland schools. Some have already been distributing prescription contraception since 2003. Of the city's three middle schools, King is supposedly the only one that distributes condoms because students in that school are provided lunch. Students from the other two middle schools are ineligible to receive condoms at King Middle School, where "Condom A'la King" seems to be the fare of the week in the school's cafeteria. Hillary Clinton, as you may recall, once told us "It takes a village." She didn't finish that sentence. It takes a village to control your child. Government is like that pesky salesman at your door; once his foot makes it in, you're stuck with him. Still, I'm struggling to make the connection between lunch and lust, and the need for government to subsidize both.

Parents must first give written consent for their children to be treated at one of the city's school health centers, but after that, they are potentially out of the loop. (Many of them probably already were!) As per state law, it is then the child's decision as to whether or not he or she tells his or her parents anything beyond that point. School health officials, however, supposedly encourage the kids to apprise their parents. Of course. Just like how Planned Parenthood encourages sexually abused minor girls to report their adult impregnators to police, as we have recently seen in the news, wink, wink, nod, nod.

This unconscionable travesty is the epitome of the erosion of the family, the abandonment of religion and traditional values and the overall degradation of our culture, and with increasing approval, be it intentional or passive. Sure, this story is shocking, but shock value has a short shelf life. Soon, we will adapt, and then we will hear of something even more shocking, until we lower the bar some more. Like the frog in the pan of cool water that is gradually turned up to full and deadly boil without his notice in the science experiment, we are gradually more desensitized to what would normally be instantly recognized and repulsed as utterly freakish depravity not all that long ago.

The logic element is also missing. No form of birth control, barring abstinence is infallible. Condoms now also no longer provide complete protection from some STD's which can still permeate the material, even if the condom was applied properly, a broad speculation, itself. These secular indoctrination clinics that call themselves "health centers" supposedly also provide counseling. That's nice, counseling for an 11-year-old child, whose brain physically does not even yet have the full faculty and maturity to make intelligent adult decisions. If such were the case, 11-year-olds could also sign legally binding contracts. Oral contraceptives given to young girls can also have serious detrimental side effects. Yet by signing written consent, these nimrods for parents are knowingly (and probably indifferently), but also blindly signing a blank check in terms of the health of their children.

Cost cannot be the only factor here. How many parents on public aid, or simply struggling, still have cigarettes, booze, and ostentatious sound systems and entertainment centers in their homes? Plenty, trust me. I know. I've been in many of those homes, and I've seen them. Likewise I typically hear that incessant and annoying beep from the dangling smoke detector, with its battery removed to be used elsewhere. It's about priorities and choices. Poverty has nothing to do with being a lousy parent. A few less bottles and cancer sticks would leave money to buy sufficient bread, cold cuts, fruit and soft drinks for a week's worth of lunches. Our poorest in the US are still richer than the truly poor in most other countries where the citizens don't live off the government dole. While a physical exam is first conducted on every child before the contraception is given in these school health centers, public clinics can provide the same service, even if cost is a factor, but a parent taking his or her child to a clinic would still have control. Or do they even want control?

Even among parents who have some coin in their pocket, their kids are kenneled in daycare like pets while the owners are on vacation, so both Mom and Dad can both work and have all the necessary trendy perks and toys while having their tushes kissed by their like-minded thinking clique who honor these (female) negligent farces as "working Moms." That's funny. I always thought motherhood already was plenty of work! This is about parents who can't be bothered. They have self-made "visitation rights" with their own offspring during evenings and on weekends, but the rest of the time, the kids are dumped off for you and I to raise. Enter Big Brother. If parents are too unattached, too apathetic, too lazy, too self-centered to provide the basic care for their children such as slopping together a bologna sandwich and putting it into a brown paper bag in the morning, could you imagine what would be involved to teach, and instill, from a much earlier age, and at a consistent pace, values such as abstinence?

Parents also sexualize their children through poor example and permissiveness. Without the proper values training at home, reaction to hormones at that age will take over, but the problem sets in much sooner, with unrestricted and unsupervised access to sexualized TV, movies, music, video games and the vast and uncensored world of the Internet. Kids also learn sexualization from dress, be it their own, and/or emulation of what other kids wear, and/or for that matter, what their parents wear. Add all those ingredients and stir. Before you know it, Junior has a condom and a promise, while a Mother of the year and her boyfriend of the week are both relieved that "at least he'll be safe." And perhaps out of their hair for a while so that they can forget about him for a while and indulge in some uninterrupted adult recreation of their own.

The primary problem isn't with the schools. They're merely accomplices. The primary problem lies with the parents, and I don't want to hear that drivel about "It's going to happen anyway." That's a cop-out for a bad parent who dropped the ball, threw in the towel and doesn't care. This has more to do with upbringing than hormones. Without one, the other will take over, and school subsidized lunches and birth control gives these negligent cretins who view their kids as inconveniences rather than blessings an already much desired out clause.

What happens when little Johnny comes home with Hepatitis or HIV? What happens when little Mary comes home with either some form of a potentially cancerous cyst, or for that matter, a baby in her womb? Does Mom (I'm thinking in most cases, there is no "Dad") then deal with the problem, or do the schools have a program for those situations, too?

According to the Press Herald article, there are roughly 1,700 similar school-connected health centers nationwide. That's a scary thought. Obviously, the "school nurse" is now obsolete, replaced by these health centers, as school psychologists now replace guidance counselors, and police officers now must exert authority once sufficiently administered by teachers and the principal. The deterioration of our society has permeated and destroyed our families, and now that stench has drifted into our schools. It's a brave and new, but not better world, and the old ways are just not good enough any more. Oh yes, and instead of the school nurse calling Mom (because she was home and Dad was working, and yes, there was a "Dad.") to see if junior can have an aspirin, now a nurse practitioner gives a "stealth" exam - and a condom to what ails the wanting student of today.

We just don't get it. This trend was next in the progression. When we stop caring about the life of an embryo, and then a fetus, isn't a child rationally next? And what happens after the condom, after the pill? Regardless if little Johnny or Mary becomes an 11-year-old parent, or an 11-year-old victim of a potentially life threatening disease, what happens when little Johnny and little Mary grow up and aren't so little any more? What about molding, forming, teaching, nurturing? When parents blindly sign off the feeding and reproductive healthcare of their children to an uncaring government bureaucrat, what happens over the years, and over incessantly repeated such instances of neglect? What kind of adult has now been created to assimilate into our society? How will that adult contribute, if at all? How dysfunctional will he or she be? Will he or she carry on and further add to the erosion of our society? Will he or she wind up in a hospital, a rehab center, or a prison for all the rest of us to be further burdened? When does this evolutionary chain of narcissistic dysfunction end? And how many more offspring will these new adults have, and what will those kids be like, and how will they be further abused and neglected? And what about them as adults, and their kids? The go-around continues, but there is no reason to be merry. Animals (the real ones) treat their offspring better than we treat ours.

Meanwhile, the bureaucrats who aren't involved with destroying our kids' health destroy their other facets. Learning is now multi-cultural, exaggerated self-esteem, pro-gay fluff and cess. Math and science are dumbed-down, history (what little is taught) is revisionist and politicized. Our kids can't write, speak, or in later years, compete. Flags, pledges and prayers are out. The misconstrued version of separation of church and state has only given us abandonment of church and dependence on the state. Condoms, promoted homosexuality and the relinquishment of parenthood to big government are in. Parents (the real ones) who dare rebel and home school their kids are systematically harassed and intimidated. While our kids can don a condom on a cucumber, they still think that Iraq is the capital of Chicago.

And when the clueless, faithless promulgators of all that is lurid, empty and evil, are finally not just immersed, but actually overcome by all that around them, and which they created, they may finally come to their senses, shake their heads in terror, disgust and disbelief, and ignorantly ask why and how this all happened. But then all will already have come to a full boil, and it will be too late, and we will be far beyond the point of no return.

Frog's legs, anyone?

Doug Wrenn