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While I'm sure this is true for you and other informed parents, the sad truth is it that there is a large number of parents that this is not true for. You dont need to be licensed or go to any classes to be a parent. And there are plenty of people who just dont care, or arent ready to be parents, yet are.Originally Posted by hookdown
Not saying I agre with the HPV vaccinations, just that alot of parents dont know best.
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt
Don't know that there are a lot (as a %), but unfortunately your are right. There are a number that don't care or are clueless...
I am getting my shot this summer. I have talked to my doctors and they all said that I should get it. I am actually loving the idea that this will protect me from cancer. My mother and my sister will be receiving the vaccine too.
I'm not sure why there is such an uproar about this across the nation. Our children are vaccinated every day against polio, small pox, mumps, etc. Protecting young women from some types of cervical cancer I think is a great thing. If I had a daughter, you bet she would have the vaccine as soon as she was old enough. I would only care that my daughter is healthy and happy.
Kids have been getting those vaccinations for how many years now? 40 or more if I'm not mistaken. Right now, it's not something that I have to worry about it, so I really haven't done the research, but I would if it were impending. The main thing, like I said earlier, that I'd have a problem is what types of problems might occur 20 years down the road? Has this vaccination been around for 20 years or so? Have enough women gotten this vaccination and then gotten pregnant 10-20 years later to see what types of reaction it might cause on the fetus? Those are the types of things I would want to know. If there's been enough of a study to show that there are enough women who have not had pregnancy issues years after having this, then that's fine. Another thing to wonder about is menopause. How will getting this shot affect the onset of menopause? Can it bring it on early? Will it make it more difficult? Especially considering that the woman has to get the booster series again after so many years. In other words, has this vaccine been around long enough that we have these results to prove that it is safe after all these years? If not, I don't see how it can be made mandatory.
Not big on the mandatory part. We do tons of things or dont do tons of things that could be very beneficial to our bodies. Next thing you know, the government will have an itinerary for our lives. You must run 3 miles, eat this, take this supplement and this vaccine, dont smoke, no fast food, further and further, as we wind down the slippery slope to no freedom and choice.
Small pox is a little different than HPV. It's spread without having to whip anything out. I just think we shouldn't make it a mandatory vaccination. Just make it free and suggested then move on.
We ain't that far, my friend. Pardon me while I go smoke a cigarette. Oh wait, I can't anymore. The CCC in Baton Rouge made it mandatory to fill out a requisition in triplicate before I can choose to smoke a cigarette.
Sounds like the best plan suggested so far. But that opens up a whole new can of worms...birth control pills, free and suggested?
“Towie Barclay of the Glen, Happy to the maids, But never to the men.”
Birth control pills - another one of those things that there wasn't 20 year data for when women started taking it. Now it's so very common.
I'm all for the HPV vaccine. And I think it's great that parents feel that they have a relationship with their children where they can determine if and when they should have the vaccine. That being said, there are plenty of children who don't have that relationship. I've spoken with a couple of MD/PhDs here in Texas who even indicate that the vaccine should be given in 3rd or 4th grade because in some counties the age of when girls are becoming sexually active is significantly lower (typically in lower income areas).
I think the benefits are significant to the woman but also to our society. If a woman has HPV then the possibility of dysplasia is increased. Typically if a woman has dysplasia then you're looking at going sometimes even every 3 months for a pap smear to assure that the cells (affected area) is ok (non-cancerous). I don't think I need to say how not fun a pap smear is. I think it's worth it just to avoid that...then you factor in the financial savings....pretty significant.
Overpopulation (exceeding the carrying capacity of the land) is the ONLY problem on earth. So, theoretically, not being able to get pregnant would be the best thing that could happen to a woman. However, cervical cancer in young women is one of the main causes of losing the ability to become pregnant and to give birth to a healthy child. So, whatever you want, the vaccine may be a wonderful thing.
The birth-control pill eliminated a lot of women from becoming pregnant. Not the ones taking it but their daughters conceived during a weekend when they missed their pill and the daughters were born with defects such as missing uterus and vagina but ovaries producing eggs and hormones and no place to go.
No prescription drug is ever tested long enough to predict the outcomes for later generations before going on the market. Anyone taking a drug for cholesterol right now is plain suicidal. Just cut your diet in half or by 75 percent and eliminate the problem and get on the treadmill or have more sex or whatever exercise you prefer.
Yeah, but birth control pills aren't mandatory and weren't made mandatory either, were they? Also, just because some parents don't know how to be parents or don't want to be parents doesn't mean that my family life should have to suffer because of that. Here's an idea instead. Instead of forcing values and treatments on those that know how to parent, why don't we force those who don't to undergo surgery to remove their child making capabilities? Why don't we remove the children from those environments and place them somewhere that they can learn to make the right decisions? Remove them from the parents who don't know how to parent.
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