14 DAY TRIAL // It's very sad to see that parents in the United States of America, which claims to be a civilized country, are actually considering not having their daughters vaccinated against HPV, because of promiscuity concerns. Parents are saying that the vaccine will virtually “green-light” the teenagers' love life, leading to nearly double the number of intercourses they might have. So, they thought they should simply not vaccinate their children, leaving little girls, who should receive the first dose of the vaccine at age 11-13, exposed to the risk of catching the human papilloma virus anyway.
Under a not too bright mentality, parents say that the threat will caution their children against sleeping with others until they are married. The one thing that these so-called “adults” don't understand is that they don't really have any control over their children at all times. Plus, education on the matter has to be at really high levels, in order for this sort of approach to work, and it's not, as many groups oppose children being taught these things in school, out of the same illogical stubbornness.
It's like they want their children to get sick, and for what? So that they can say “I told you so”? What kind of a parent does that? Doctors have tried to get an answer to these questions from their patients for a long time, but they only got blank stares, as most people simply cannot see in the long run, and only imagine what things will be like over a short period of time. This kind of attitude only damages the interests of the little girls, especially now that transmittable diseases are on a rampage.
Out of the adults who said that they would not vaccinate their daughters with the full 3 doses needed for an optimum protective effect, a large portion said that money was a problem. On average, a statistic calculated that a family had to pull about $181 out of the pocket for all three doses. And public campaigners for the vaccination ask “is that too big of a price to put on the health of your little girl?”
Psychologists warn that public perception on drugs is usually influenced by non-rational factors, and that some people will even refuse flu shots, because their mentality revolves around “that will not happen to me.” And when it does, they file suit and complain that the doctors did nothing to prevent them from getting sick, as if it's the doctors' fault.
There's only so much medicine can do to help a sick person, and, if the HPV vaccination campaign, which is meant to avert cancer, does not go well, we could see a rise in the incidence of cervical cancer over the next years, one that could have been avoided easily, at a minimal cost.