GOOD SHEPHERD CHURCH HAS RECEIVED REPORT THAT HIGH SCHOOL IMPLANTS IUDS IN TEEN GIRLS WITHOUT THEIR PARENTS' KNOWLEDGE OR CONSENT. [1] & [2]
Are Intra Uterine Devices suitable for our teenage girls?
IUD serious complications reportedly include
- Alleged Life threatening ectopic pregnancy [3]
- Alleged Perforation of the uterine wall [3]
- Alleged Pelvic inflammatory disease [PID] [3]
- Alleged Complications leading to medical expenses, lost wages, pain and suffering [3]
- Alleged Adverse events including device expulsion, device dislocation and vaginal haemmorhage [3]
- Alleged IUD Associated hospitalizations [4]
- Alleged Complications of IUD's include death [4]
- Alleged Hospitalization with complicated pregnancies [4]
Single parenting can be stress inducing on a parent required to both work and parent newborns/ young children and young adults.
It is a supportive factor to have another taking turns with child care [very costly for a single parent], to share the responsibilites of a child with.
Should teenagers be using birth control at a very early age?
Good Shepherd Church - while both fully aware of and acknowledging the gap at times between the ideal and reality - sees the value in holding modesty and abstinence until marriage as ideals for youth in our families.
These virtues may be seen as old fashioned.
What has held true is that children, allowed to have a full childhood and enjoy their teen years unencumbered by too early sexualization, tend to have full time to complete a good education [enabling high income earnings and a better quality of life].
These children are not introduced to the full responsibility of parenting at a very early age - which often entails the curtailing of long term dreams for education, life experience and travel.
Once a child is born, the responsibility remains for life.
What is the ideal?
Any teen benefits greatly from being able to confide and seek guidance from older members of the community, such as their parents.
Why? Because having experienced both life's highs and lows, the older person has a greater store of experience to draw from when making new decisions.
Why would teens benefit from being able to turn to their parents with the issues of birth control?
Parents can advise accordingly, and thus many heartbreaks - such as a teen being used for physical reasons by another with no intention of a long term relationship, or sexually transmitted diseases, or unplanned pregnancies with rejection or abortion of the child - can be averted.
Are there other options for birth control without side effects? Yes. See links [5], [6], [7], [8] and [9] for suggestions.
[1] High School implants IUDs in teen girls without their parents' knowledge or consent, Alleged News
http://www.lifenews.com/2015/06/12/high-school-implants-iuds-in-teen-girls-without-their-parents-knowledge-or-consent/
[2] A Seattle High School is taking birth control access to the next level, Alleged News
http://grist.org/living/a-seattle-high-school-is-taking-birth-control-access-to-the-next-level/
[3] Mirena Lawsuits Alleged News
http://www.drugwatch.com/mirena/lawsuit/
[4] Current Trends IUD Safety; Report of a Nationwide Physician Survey
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00049581.htm
[5] Lady Comp, Alleged News
https://lady-comp.com/
[6] FPA; Natural Family Planning, Alleged News
http://www.fpa.org.uk/contraception-help/natural-family-planning
[7] Fertility Awareness; Natural Family Planning (NFP), Alleged News
http://americanpregnancy.org/preventing-pregnancy/natural-family-planning/
[8] Medline Plus; Ovulation Home Tests, Alleged News
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/007062.htm
[9] Billings Method, Alleged News
http://www.thebillingsovulationmethod.org/
With thanks to Lifenews.com, Grist.org, Drugwatch.com, cdc.gov, lady-comp.com, fpa.org.uk, americanpregnancy.org, nlm.nih.gov, thebillingsovulationmethod.org
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