Sitting round the camp fire singing 'Kumbayah', traditionally you might pass round some marshmallows. Now the Scouts Association have announced they want to pass round some condoms.
Well, not quite. But Scouts leaders are going to make contraceptive advice available to their members, and encouraging them to withstand peer pressure to have sex at an early age.
Is it scouts responsibility to dish out this information? Shouldn't scouts be an escape or distraction from the classroom? Or, does it give it teenagers a more comfortable environment for teenagers to talk about their concerns, than at school or at home?
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Whereas I understand the need to keep innocence at an early age, the idea of learnin about relationships in general seems like a good one to me. Many children do not get the oppotunity for sex education in schools so it seems like a good idea. Although the fact this is going to happen at all should make parents question their own parenting skill, I would not want a stranger explaining contraception to my children...maybe they should be doing it themselves!
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