10 Year Olds Given Contraceptive Implants

[hc4361]

This news is very sad and a poor reflection on England. Three ten year old girls have been given the implants over the last five years, not a huge number, but I wonder what effect this will have on their long term health, never mind the emotional issues of having sex at such a young age.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2860855/Girls-young-TEN-given-contraceptive-implant-sparking-fears-puts-risk-horrendous-abuse.html

[woofgang]

As the article pointed out towards the end, the implants may also be used for other purposes.

[Mamyalynne]

It would depend very much on the reasons why the implants were given in each of these cases.

[Gromit]

Getting pregnant at 12 wouldn't be a better option.
Without knowing why and who these cases are, it is impossible to guess at what damage or benefit they are getting.

[Answerprancer]

"...pointed out towards the end"
That's a classic trick the Daily Bogroll uses frequently, they start off with a provocative hysterical headline the gradually twist it back round towards the end.

[wolf63]

It is most probable that they are experiencing heavy periods. These can be quite frustrating and troublesome. (I used other words a few weeks back).

Young girls have been prescribed the Pill for many reasons and for many years. This is the Daily Mail being ........ can't think of one word to describe them. Not one that would get past the filter anyway.

Grouchy of Perth

[mikey4444]

Answerprancer has it right here, Typical DM article !

But even if these three 10 year old girls WERE given the implant as a contraceptive, three out of 10,000's of possible 10 year old girls is hardly an epidemic.

[jourdain2]

Aged 14, my Mum finally took me to see the Dr. after I had collapsed - yet again - at school. He prescribed these pills. I did not know it but they were first generation contraceptives. Wonderful difference. I stopped losing 2 or 3 days a month schooling and shivering and crying in bed with a hot-water bottle clutched to my middle. So they can be prescribed for lots of conditions.

On the other hand, I once saw contraceptive pills in a 14-yr-old's pencil case at school. I went to see her year head, who told me that they were all pleased that she was now taking them and that she was 'on the game', quite happy about it and would not stop. Their current campaign was to get her to carry condoms.

So, the point is that there is not enough information and these things can be quite complex!

[jno]

one expert quoted, from the right-wing group formerly known as Responsible Society. Not exactly a firestorm of protest, is it. AP has got it right.

[atalanta]

One might imagine one's very young daughter conceiving a child of rape . . . .
There are a few more ghastly situations, but surely not many.

[bednobs]

3 in five years is hardly earth shattering

[Answerprancer]

I get slammed mercilessly for speaking out against the DM but this particular trick they play is despicable IMO.
They KNOW their readers are of a certain type (angry and fed up) and most likely also of a sufficiently limited attention span for them to apply this trick.
So after having their blood satisfactorily boiled the reader will move on to the next story, again without reading to the end (where the important bit is) ..and so on.

[mikey4444]

answerprancer...you have neatly summed up the DM...well said !

[naomi24]

//never mind the emotional issues of having sex at such a young age. //

Who says they're having sex?

[hc4361]

The emotional issues of having to cope with painful and heavy periods at that age must be hard to deal with

[ummmm]

hc...it's awful. Compare it to a short shot of the flu, every month.

Luckily for me having my first baby seemed to sort it out.

[Sycamore3House]

The emotional issues of starting to have periods so Young is traumatic enough. I wonder also if these children are not mentally handicapped and therefore capable of producing children but having no concept of what that entails and caring for a child.

[naomi24]

If people are suffering, doctors medicate to either cure the ailment or to alleviate the symptoms. That’s it really. As for these children being put at risk of ‘horrendous abuse’, by whom? Potentially depraved parents or potentially depraved members of the medical profession who are aware of the situation? Who else would know? Fuss over nothing.