Will you or have you put your daughter on birth control ?
@samtaylorskykierajen (7977)
Canada
September 18, 2008 7:07am CST
Will you do this when your daughter is older or do you have a daughter already where you have put her on birth control ? If so how old was your daughter or how old will she be when you do this ? Give reasons for why or why you would or would not do this ?
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@mattcassethan (226)
• Canada
19 Sep 08
Yes my daughter is only 5 , but from the moment i gave birth to her, i always said that she would go on birth control after her peroid. i believe to be better safe than sorry. if she was to have a baby at a young age i would make sure she finished school and i would help her as much as i could. it would not be the end of the world, but i want her to get a good education, and a good job and maybe a house befor she has children, as i was only 19 having my son, i relize how hard life is.
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@GardenGerty (160665)
• United States
21 Sep 08
One problem I see here is that it is possible for a girl to get pregnant before she ever has her first period. If you think she is in inclined to be sexually active, or she is in a dangerous environment, it would be good to do. I am more interested in knowing if a people will get a gardisil immunization for their daughters.
@austere (2812)
• Philippines
19 Sep 08
i dont know, but maybe i wont. i mean, i am 22 years old, single, not married yet but my mom didnt have to put me to it. and i didnt use birth control of my own choice too. i think, if i can educate my children about about it, then they should be wise enough to know what and what not to do. but of course, we'll never know how wild they can get in their generation. but i really will talk them out on this matter for sure.
@emarie (5442)
• United States
19 Sep 08
if she came to me and admitted to being sexually active (which i hope she does talk to me about it) i'd talk with her to see if she'd like to be placed on it. i'd still want her to use physical protections. at any age, i'd rather have her protected then to have her suffer later.
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@TakeThisName (769)
• Canada
19 Sep 08
Gosh I don't know what I will do if I have kids . I would want them to trust me but I wouldn't want them to get somehting because they were not protected . I hope when i have kids I will know what is right to do and will probably decide then cause times are changing all the time and maybe this won't be a big concern cause there mighbt be something else to worry about then .
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@babygurl03 (268)
• Canada
19 Sep 08
If I ever have a daughter then I will put her on the birth control and if I have a son I will give him protectin . It would be a shame for them to have a baby because i didn't protect them properly and ther are so many young kids doing this today that I will not be one of them parents that didn't try to protect my kid . I will do this when they become a teenager cause if you wait for your kid to come tellyou then you probably will wait to long cause they probably won't unless you have an extremely close relationship with your children . I never told my mom when I was active and she never knew so I know that kids will do this and hide it from tehre parents .
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@moneyman123 (194)
• Canada
18 Sep 08
I don't have kids yet but when I do I will leave that up to my wife or girlfriend to do . I think it would be scary to have a daughter and have to worry about this but if i don't trust here then i would get my wife or girlfriend to take ehr to the doctors and do this so she woudl be safe /
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@GardenGerty (160665)
• United States
21 Sep 08
No, I did not put my daughter on birth control. She was not sexually active and did not plan on being so. Her periods were regular and not painful I know that that is sometimes also a reason. I have adult clients whose parents/guardians have them on birth control so that "if they get raped, they won't get pregnant." I also think it is because sometimes the mentally disabled have poor impulse control.
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@Feona1962 (7526)
• United States
18 Sep 08
Yes...I would put her on birth control..I think my daughter was 16 when she started...I wish I didn't have to but it is better to be safe than sorry...We can't be with them 24/7 and hopefully all the talks we had would be foremost in their minds when the time comes...
Way to many kids are having kids and it is our responsibility to make sure we do everything we can to help our kids....
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@pehpot (4762)
• Philippines
18 Sep 08
well I don't have a girl right now but when I do have (and I hope I will 4 or 5 years from now) I will give her lectures on contraceptive but I would not put her on birth control as it will really means that I am giving her a go signal on doing it, of course as much as possible I want it to delay but of course there are things that you have no control of, so I guess I will just educate her regarding it.
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@roseygoodman (53)
• United States
18 Sep 08
I raised three daughters through their teenage years without any birth control. I would hope our being close and being able to talk with each other helped them in making right choices. I'm not saying they had no temptations, because that would be pretty ignorant. But I believe making them responsible for their own choices when they were even younger, helped them take a good look at the consequences of anything they encountered. And again, maybe I was just lucky.