ParentDish recently highlighted a couple related debates at the CafeMom blog: Would you give your 14-year-old son a condom? How about your daughter?

While the thread about the daughter sparked twice as many comments, for the most part, parents were willing to give their 14-year-olds the sex talk and birth control. From the daughter thread:

My parents told me it was unacceptable to have sex until I was married, that God wouldn't like it, that I would disappoint God and them.

I did it anyways. I'm glad I found condoms to use. Teens don't always listen to their parents.

coutterhill Mar. 23, 2009 at 9:04 PM

if theyr'e gonna do it they're gonna do it. may as well make sure they don't catch something that won't wash off!

igot2 Mar. 23, 2009 at 9:04 PM

Readers at ParentDish, which can sometimes trend conservative, also said they would rather protect their children no matter the gender. Glad to see this paradigm shift from "condoms encourage teen sex" to common sense. What about you? Would you give your 14-year-old a condom? How about a child younger than that?