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...that women breast-feed for a relatively short duration? The vast majority of mothers in the U.S. wean a baby by six months. In contrast, most mothers in developing countries still practice the age-old custom of nursing a child for two to four years. A woman need not birth a baker's dozen to lessen her risk for breast cancer; breast-feeding beyond one year might very well benefit both her and her child. Lisa Wheeler, BIRMINGHAM...
Would you want your 12-year-old child coming home from middle school with birth control pills...
Strange as it may seem, that is a question that some residents of Portland, Me. will have to wrestle with after the school board last week passed a measure allowing an independently-run clinic at a local middle school to distribute prescription-strength birth control pills without parental permission. Any student wishing to receive the pills will have to undergo counseling and be examined by a physician or nurse who can prescribe the drugs. And parents do have to sign a waiver to give their children access to any of the clinic’s services. But the decision...
Middle school students fall between the ages of 12 and 15, an age where peer pressure can cause students to do things they later regret. While it has not been shown that easy access to birth control increases sexual activity among students, it certainly doesn’t deter them or require them to carefully consider their options. Instead of dispensing these pills, the school should focus on a comprehensive sexual education curriculum that informs the students of the risks involved with sexual activity as well as the side effects of birth control. If a school district decides that...
...choose to have sex. Though weighing the balance between protecting students and betraying parents can be difficult, this program clearly comes down on the side of the latter. Instead, the school should focus on education and providing access to outside resources, and leave the dispensing of free birth control to someone else...