I am a scientist and a pro-vaccinating mother.
Snap!

There is no way that any child of mine will have this vaccination.
I'm interested as to why, My understanding was that the vaccine protects against the strains that cause a high percentage of the cancers. Would you mind posting or PMing me the links, if they exist, to discussion of the underlying issues you refer to?

One jab does pretty much nothing. Use condoms and don't sleep around - that's far safer than a vaccine, no matter what!
I entirely agree with this. Though you don't have to sleep around to still be at risk: if your one partner has slept around him/herself then you are still in trouble. But you have a very important point here, and of course we always need more education, as well as having reasonable expectations for what teenagers will and won't do.