Everyone in my country can get free condoms. We have family planning centres all over that give them out to anyone who want them, even comes in a neat little bag with a tube of lube inc too, just in case your foreplay abilities are limited to taking off your socks. You dont even need an appointment or have to speak to anyone, just walk in, take a bag and walk out. To me thats a good thing, cuts unwanted pregnacies, cuts std's, and encourages safe sex. Sure my tax money pays for it, fine, no problem with that, tax money also pays for people to get treatment for std's, healthcare for pregnant females and abortions for unwanted pregnancies too so it kinda bamances itself out.
While i can see how having a 12 yr old come home with condoms may seems a bit frightening, research shows that the younger you teach kids about sex and pregnancy then the better choices those kids will make when they do eventually have sex. My daughter is 9 and they already get taught basic reproduction etc, by 12 they will have been taught all about sex here. Its impossible today to keep things from kids anyway, the internet has opened up a wealth of knowledge for teens. Questions you or i where maybe too scared or embarrassed to ask as a 13 yr old can be answered with a quick google.
Education works way better than that silver ring thing type program you guys had in the states, you know that one that taught abstinence etc? It didnt work. Didnt work in Africa either. Condoms save lives, and stop lives being ruined by disease, and stop kids having kids, but only if you teach them how to use them properly and to be responsibe.
