My experience as a school nurse is that the kids with ADD, ADHD, autism, Aspergers Syndrome, etc....if you ask mothers if they took the pill prior to that child’s birth, they all did. I took the pill (tried to) for the first 3 months after marriage, so I would not get pregnant and could get fitted for a diaphragm, but I could not tolerate the pill and vomited them every morning. SO, I got pregnant the next month. Our daughter had OCD, ADD, etc. but our boys were not afflicted with anything like that. I took nothing before they were conceived. Taking the pill is so common that people don’t think to associate it with anything. However, I always told my students in Sex. Ed. classes what the pill does and how it works, that is increases the risk of breast, uterine and cervical cancers, not to mention that the risk of STDs is greater because most women take the pill to prevent pregnancy and don’t think about STDs. The pill doesn’t prevent STDs, nor do condoms, if the truth would be told. Only prevents HIV 85% of the time, and the rest? Less than 1% protection, although the kids would NOT know that according to the ads the CDC puts out. They are lying through their teeth to these kids! We wonder why society is falling apart? Sexual sin destroys the body, soul and spirit, unlike other sin. We are seeing it come to full fruition.
God bless you, Shery, for delivering the truth to your students! I grew up in the 50s and 60s. I don't recall any of these problems with other children. Breast cancer? The major fundraisers back then were MS and the March of Dimes. Today, breast cancer is right up there at the top. What changed? It doesn't take rocket science to recognize that once the pill became acceptable and was widely distributed, the dynamics changed. It is the same with AIDS. The emphasis is improperly placed on finding a cure rather than focusing on prevention.
Beginning early in the day, tv viewers are subjected to a plethora of advertisements from pharmaceutical companies promoting their sexual enhancement products. Not surprisingly, these are interspersed with other advertisements from law firms, addressing the rights of consumers on failed products. Sex has become a parlor game rather than a means to reproduction.