The incidence of sexually transmitted diseases and pregnancies would be reduced if Australian schools were to introduce condom vending machines. Then we would not have a large proportion of teenage girls becoming pregnant each year. In countries of similar socioeconomic status, such as the United States, there are more than 16,000 pregnancies in the suburbs of New York alone. These teen mothers would find it hard to feed their children, so they became financially dependent on programs to help them financially. In Australia such programs are controlled by Centrelink. Despite this, eight per cent of teen mothers end up in poverty for long periods of time due to the fact that they never finished school. Teen mothers and their children cost Australian tax payers 3 billion dollars a year. If the Australia government were to allow condom vending machines in government schools, the Australian people would not have to pay not that much tax for teen mothers. In addition, I think that the availability of condoms within schools would not completely assist in decreasing the number of teen pregnancies and the levels of sexually activity. This is because teenagers need to be educated as to the correct use of contraception.
The availability of condoms within schools would give teenagers easy access to contraception. The first thing we have to accept is that teenagers do have sex and will continue to have sex, and in some cases, unprotected sex. This could end up in miscarriage or a