Several people have said it better than me -- the world is so very different now. Having said that, reading the local paper the middle school kids at King are QUITE CLEAR that the majority of them are not sexually active but that this is a need to protect a certain smaller group by offering birth control. I don't know what the answer is -- I truly don't. But it cannot be right for children to be having children; better they don't have sex, yes -- most of them won't while still in middle school, good - but if they do have sex, let's give them condoms and birthcontrol so they do not become parents before they are nearly ready -- and at the same time work with them on making great choices. Having said that, both my daughters were on the pill with my support and love at the age of 15. Turns out one of them was sexually active that young, and one was not . Now they are 25 and 22, lovely young women, building their lives and not trying to raise babies on their own.