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In reply to the discussion: Gals who have sex before 15 deserve what they get [View all]BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)There's no such thing as a one-pill-for-all. In the Netherlands, many young girls even at the age of eleven have been taking the pill with no problems.
By the way, gastritis is nothing to sniff at. Not only is it physically disabling {horrendous stomach-flu-like pain where even walking becomes torture}, but left untreated, causes serious damage to the stomach walls, can cause lactose intolerance, gluten-intolerance, can cause large and ugly bleeding ulcers and stomach cancer. It's not a simple case of indigestion.
I've had the talk with all three of my children, but I'm realistic enough to know that no matter how you prepare them, peer-pressure is stronger than anything a parent can ever say. That's just the fact. That said, although she'd been on the pill since she was 12, my daughter is a rare girl who has decided not to jump into bed with the first pretty face she sees - and there were many chances for that. She has seen the devastating effects on her friends who discover they'd contracted a STD because of a one-night-stand since my daughter was into heavy partying in her later teenage years.
Today, at 21, my daughter has been in a monogamous relationship for four years, is a legal secretary currently being trained to be VP of New Relations for the law firm she works for, and when she's 22 1/2, she will be making an annual salary of $100K per year. Her friends, whose mothers didn't want their daughters on the pill, now find themselves mothers and their mothers are now grandmothers. Nearly all of them. Some even have two or more children, are unmarried, and don't know who their "baby daddies" are.
I believe I did pretty damn good by my daughter even if you personally believe I didn't make a "wise choice".