Posted on 04/13/2011 9:55:32 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Philly Gives Condoms to 11-Year-Olds Recent survey of West Philly sixth graders found that 25 percent of them have sex Wednesday, Apr 13, 2011 | Updated 11:57 AM EDT Philly Gives Condoms to 11-Year-Olds
By Teresa Masterson
Children as young as 11 years old are encouraged to get free condoms sent to them, compliments of the Philadelphia Public Health Department.
Daily News columnist Ronnie Polaneczky was first alerted to the city’s youth-oriented condom campaign by a horrified mother, and upon perusal of the health department’s website takecontrolphilly.org, Polaneczky herself was a bit depressed by what she found.
“If you live in Philadelphia and you are between the ages of 11 and 19, all you have to do is fill out the form below and we'll put together a package for you,” the site states.
The site includes graphic cartoon penis animation, which demonstrates the proper way to put on a condom, simulates what happens while the condom is worn, and then shows how to properly remove a used condom.
There is also an explicit animation of how to insert a female condom, which includes depictions of sex.
Gary Bell, executive director of Bebashi-Transition to Hope, the local non-profit that works to prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases, told Polaneczky that these measure are necessary for the city’s youth.
"We do more workshops in middle schools than in high schools," Bell told Polaneczky. "Teachers call us because their kids are acting out sexually. They'll catch them in the bathroom or the stairwell. They hear that kids are cutting schools to have orgies.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcphiladelphia.com ...
This is sickening on so many levels...first, how many 11 year olds even can “function” at that level physically?
Second - when I was 11, I barely had started noticing girls, but had no desire to really do anything with them if you know what I mean.
Third - where are the adults in all this? Why are they endorsing this? Where are the FATHERS specifically?
When the children involved were asked where their fathers were, they replied “What’s a father?”
I hope Philadelphia burns down. The bell could be restored.
Of course, their first thought is to call the Condom Patrol. Not the parent(s). 11 years old do not "act out sexually" unless there's a deep seated problem. I guess in the Philly school system this is now so normal as to not even raise eyebrows.
Shameful.
It takes a progressive village to raise this type of child.
“how many 11 year olds even can “function” at that level physically?”
In an urban environment, most of them. Some demographics develop earlier than others.
Holder’s people.
This article takes me back to middle school. Going fishing, reading Mark Twain, bobbing for apples, cutting school to have orgies. Them was the days.
This is the end result of justified means!
Sex ed. designed from the start.
When I was 11, girls made the best snowball targets!
They are just doing what we’ve taught them to do. Thier lives are bombarded daily with sex.
KLBJ had a story about some 15 yr old kid in Houston who had two kids with one of his teachers. She wants him to have no contact with the kids now (don't know the details why), but he wants to have joint custody.
Holder's people? If you go to the site mentioned, the cartoon 'hostess' is a black female.
Keepin’ it real.
Yup! We are “those people” and they are “my people”.
The answer to this problem, of course, is more money for the schools.
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