Encourage chastity, not contraception

YOUR editorial support of Mary Harney’s proposal to provide contraceptives to eleven-year-olds is in line with the Government advert ‘Think Contraception.’

It views sex as a recreational option for all and an encouragement to promiscuity and betrayal of our youth.

Why adopt failed solutions which, in England and America, have led to an increase in teen pregnancies, abortions and venereal diseases.

Likewise, Relationships and Sexuality Education (RSE) school programmes, with their presentations of sexual intimacies, have been found to lead to experimentation even by very young children in the schoolyard.

In terms of morality and chastity, the Silver Ring Thing has proven to appeal to the idealism of youth with increasing numbers in America opting to remain celibate until marriage.

Also the American youth team, Chastity Challenge, and the Irish Youth 2000 group, Pure in Heart, have both spoken in Irish schools and met with very positive response.

Why not encourage and support such solutions, which offer hope? Our youth deserve only the best.

Ann Carroll

Grangemount

Fermoy

Co Cork