Questions Never Asked
Saturday, February 3rd, 2007 (Current Events, Culture, Questions Never Asked with 10 Comments)Whenever I watch the local news or read the headlines in the various online news sources, I tend to notice that there are many questions never asked. Recently Texas passed a law that makes 11 year old girls receive injections for cervical Cancer/HPV virus mandatory if they want to be in school. What wasn’t mentioned in the report I saw on my local station was that the HPV virus is a sexually transmitted disease that causes cervical cancer. Throughout the sound-bite they naturally talk about how good of an idea it is. However they failed to ask:
What are the side effects of the decision?
What is this saying to little kids?
Unfortunately no one seems to be thinking this issue through. Telling your daughter she needs to get a shot for cervical cancer at 11 is like giving her birth control and walking off saying “they’re gonna do it anyway”. Sadly, too many people do this already.
Ultimately what this mindset is telling my generation is: “Okay hunny, We don’t want you to have relations before your time (marriage) but if you do here’s what you should have”. That reaction is not communicating love to a young adult. Rather it is a display of apathy in one of it’s worst forms - indifference. For a parent to be indifferent about their child’s life is telling their child that they don’t care.
While seemingly teens may want their parents not to interfere - you know you’re cared about when your parents sit you down and explain why abstinence is necessary rather than just giving you a pill.