To know if my 13 year old is on medication or not?

[KittyPerry77]

NHS website states that 13 year olds have the same confidentiality as an adult at doctor's surgery when getting contraception.

How can it be right that a parent doesn't know if their child (and yes 5 years off being an adult is certainly a child) is taking the pill or not? It's got so many side affects which isn't really surprising seeing as how it artificially manipulates a child's hormones.

Who can I contact to try to get this changed? In AIBU as I know there'll be people dying to say I am, but I'm totally not.

How many 13 years old are prescribed the pill without their parents knowledge anyway?

i wouldn't worry about contraceptives so much. But the rise in transgenderism, vulnerable young teens being manipulated into life-changing medical interventions, and parents have no say - that is frightening.

I've not rtft so I'm not sure if this has been asked already. Does this law only stand for contraception? Can a child be treated for other things without the knowledge of their parents? Schools often need to know the medical history of pupils, in case of emergency. If the parents don't even know, how can school or other institutions look after the child properly?

No Sofizzy -the law is for all medical issues. Upthread someone gave their own experience of their son opting out of a medical procedure even though she would have preferred them to have it.

But as someone else explained there are occasions when a Frazer/Gillick competent child's decision can be over-ridden by parents/those holding PR but it isn't necessarily straightforward...

I was 14 when I went on the pill as I was having sex, along with several friends. We were in the tops sets at school, and all went on to good universities and have had good careers.
None of us spoke to our parents about it, as we were able to understand the consequences of taking the pill. Much better then us all ending up as mums at the age of 14/15.

I’m not sure if you’re trying to be goody or not but never mind here goes if you’re interested

The advice given to teenagers is to continue to use condoms as well as the pill to protect against sexually transmitted diseases. Please get your facts right.

The nature of the teenagers relationship is carefully discussed there is the right to confidentiality unless there is a risk of significant harm to themselves or others for example if a 14year old was having a relationship with a 25year old.

The teenagers accessing the pill are the ones are the ones who need it but it’s still a huge minority of young people.

I congratulate you on the fact that your teenagers have such a great open relationship with you that they would be able to trust you to be non judgmental and give them all the facts and let them make their own decision. Not every child is as lucky as your children obviously are!!

Don’t you dare feel it’s appropriate to attempt to take this service away from teenagers who are not as lucky

Theoretically yes but I’ve never known it happen especially for anything life changing, it depends what you would be thinking off

I went on the pill when I was 17 because I had heavy, irregular periods and awful skin. My dad hit the roof - if he could have stopped me taking it, he would have done. I thought that was unreasonable back then, I think it's fucking unreasonable now.

It’s clearly an issue that has been got right

The teenage pregnancy rate has fallen therefore protecting teenagers of the risks of being pregnant and giving birth as a teenager.

Condoms are available protecting from potentially life changing sexually transmitted diseases.