
Originally Posted by
johncar54
My wife used to be a Barangay Health Worker. Part of her work involved supplying free condoms to women and explaining about contraception.
Why oh why don't unmarried females, who are going to have intercourse, use condoms ??? Thus not only protecting against unwanted pregnancy but sexually transmitted decease, which can kill them.
Don't tell me it's because it's a sin in the Catholic Church, so is sex outside marriage.
Having a baby outside marriage has all the potential to put a person, who in a poor situation, in a very much worse situation and reduces the chance of them getting married.
From the country's point of view, an estimated 94 million, rapidly growing, population is far to big and will drag the country into greater poverty. The Government should be promoting sex education despite the wishes of the church. After all, they allow divorce, albeit that they euphemistically call it annulment.
It thought that illegitimate births in the Philippines might be around 50% of all births, but as most birth registrations show two names there is no official record.
From the age of about 14 (a good catholic boy at that time) I always carried a condom in my wallet, even though I did not 'get lucky' until I was 16. I have never had unprotected sex and never fathered a 'surprise baby.'
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