What is the government trying to achieve by giving condoms to 10 year olds!!?????????

I know the pregnancy rate in South African is increasing every day, and we are now facing situations where by some underage children find themselves pregnant but I think that there is a thin line between teaching safe sex and encouraging sex. I understand that the government is only trying to aid the situation but how can we help lower the pregnancy rate by giving children who are still between grade 3-4 condoms?

To me it seems as if we are encouraging our children or giving them a go-ahead to indulge in sexual behavior by supplying them with condoms at such a tender age. At this age children should be learning about the changes that occur in the bodies not telling them to explore those changes by giving them condoms. In our time abstinence was encouraged, even though it didn’t work for some people but it was the only effective way. I think that making contraceptives available for them at an early age was enough.

We cannot control what our children do when we are not with them, so I don’t think this is going to work effectively, it might work because they might get the whole process of using a condom correctly when it’s taught to them but other than that, I don’t agree. If children have decided to engage in sexual activity there isn’t much we can do about it.

In conclusion I think that, there’s a fine line between teaching children about the danger of sex and encouraging them to have sex. The government has made a very big mistake and I don’t think that this implementation of condoms at an early age will have a positive impact, because I do not think that these children know how to even use a condom correctly, I think that this is going to be a disaster and we won’t even manage as a country with the consequence of this action.