"Should your daughter get the HPV vaccine?"

K, so this article discusses the HPV virus we've probably seen commercials for on television. Only, it talks about the vaccine being readily availble to tween girls in elementary school. It says how some parents are in a tizzy about their child getting the vaccine, because they are "questioning the motives of a drug company that stands to make big profits and politicians who may be pandering for votes, and feeling a certain queasiness about dosing girls as young as 10 years old with protection for an STD". My point is though, why wouldn't you want to protect your child from a form of cancer! It's a cancer that apparently isn't easily treated either! I mean, sure I can understand parents being worried about side effects because it is a new vaccine, but many modern medication have side effects, just look at birth control for example. The side effects for the vaccine probably aren't that dire anyway. Just let your child be vaccinated, and feel safe about it. Children these days know about the side effects of unprotected sex enough to know that the vaccine isn't an invitation to have wild, promiscuous sex. If a form of protection is readily available I just think that parents should be willing to want to protect their children from disease-morals and ethics aside.