Underage pregnancy in the UK
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the thing is in places like Sweden when a girl buys a teen mag it preaches about safe sex we kinda get that here but we also get the whole "hey if you f**k up you can take a pill and it will all be fine" although the morning after pill has saved the skins of a few of my mates its a double edged sword as in one hand you have the people who use the right protection and something goes wrong then there is those who don't care, cos hey you get a free house right 
its good to live in a country where people just don't give a f**k
although i am 18 and my mum is 35, i personally think she should have waited but she thought she could handle it and if i don't mind saying she has done a ok job and of course if a couple thinks they are ready then thats great, you carry on. but i've seen alot of girls use it as a way of getting back at a ex or getting a house and benefits and its not cool
its good to live in a country where people just don't give a f**k
although i am 18 and my mum is 35, i personally think she should have waited but she thought she could handle it and if i don't mind saying she has done a ok job and of course if a couple thinks they are ready then thats great, you carry on. but i've seen alot of girls use it as a way of getting back at a ex or getting a house and benefits and its not cool
sorry about that yes i'm a christian but that doesn't mean i'm not pissed off by priests,number2301 said:
ok in my country the philippines, there's a bill that needed to be passed that involves obliging the government to give options to people on the contraceptive methods they can use.
unfortunately those fucking priests and other conservative groups continues to block the passing of that said bill because they think it's anti-life. anti-life?! what the fuck are they talking about?! hell one priest even said that he is willing to go to prison for protest. what an asshole. /rant
in all seriousness those people are just too damn close minded.
I'm probably going to piss people off by saying this, but: Child Benefit.
I presume it was brought in at the end of WW2 to both encourage repopulation, and support all the fatherless families who, given the still-endemic workplace sexism, didn't have a good way of bringing in a living wage.
Now it's used as a method of not ever having to work until you scrape through to state pension age, because you can keep popping out sprogs.
Also there's a lot of shit-poor areas where there's little else to do - or at least, the mindset is such that there isn't - other than drink, fight, steal, do drugs and shag. Concrete jungles and depressing sink estates that hurt the entire psyche. Sex is a fun activity that breaks the monotony, and having a kid gives you something to concentrate on. Juno it freakin' ain't.
I presume it was brought in at the end of WW2 to both encourage repopulation, and support all the fatherless families who, given the still-endemic workplace sexism, didn't have a good way of bringing in a living wage.
Now it's used as a method of not ever having to work until you scrape through to state pension age, because you can keep popping out sprogs.
Also there's a lot of shit-poor areas where there's little else to do - or at least, the mindset is such that there isn't - other than drink, fight, steal, do drugs and shag. Concrete jungles and depressing sink estates that hurt the entire psyche. Sex is a fun activity that breaks the monotony, and having a kid gives you something to concentrate on. Juno it freakin' ain't.
Because there is an unnatural amount of stupid people in the world. This stupidity then develops into sluttiness into the girls and the guys just accept it. The the two stupid people make a stupid baby and the cycle begins again.
ICWUTIDIDTHARlee1287 said:
OT: Because people are shits. It's true. Deal with it. Sorry, there's nothing really else I can say.
lee1287 said:
Honestly?
I think it has to do with the simple fact that teenagers are going to have sex no matter what people think or say about it. It's part of growing up, and learning about life. I don't think adults should be having sex with teens, but am fairly open minded when it comes to teens having sex with each other. Heck, we make movies and write songs about it.
The thing is that adults with a somewhat more mature, but also somewhat stupid, perspective on such things, feel that the lessons they learned during that time period are something they can protect kids from. Hence a giant push to limit sexual education, censor the media, and try and create an enviroment that they feel will foster virgin teens.
In reality you wind up with a lot of teens doing all the same stuff, but without the same degree of information, or easy access to things like birth control. If it takes a massive and embarassing act for kids to get condoms or "the pill" they are going to have sex without them. You limit sex education, and even examples in the media, and you wind up with increasingly awkward situations and people acting out of ignorance.
I'm one of those guys who supports ideas like the anonymous distribution of condoms in school, and making sex education both more involved, non-judgemental, and also totally mandatory. I say totally mandatory because a lot of schools give parents the option of not having their kids attend for religious or moral reasons. Part of a seperation of church and a public education system is to distribute such information. I am not a big supporter of "the right to make my children ignorant".
At any rate, I'm guessing the UK has issues with sex education even if it doesn't think it does, and doesn't engage in the distribution of condoms in high schools (among other things). The reaction to news like this is "OMG, we must counter this by somehow making our teenagers even more ignorant about sex" when you simply can't surpress human nature.
I live in Texas where 63% of all teenage girls will have a kid before they get their learner's permit and I manage to escape my teen years without a kid but my twin sister didn't so I got to see all the ugliness that came with becoming an uncle at the ripe old age of 17. I can tell you exactly why teens are getting pregnant in one single statement. Teenagers think they know better than everybody. Despite everyone around them living longer and experiencing more than them, they go about their teenage years in a rebellious phase and a "that will never happen to me" attitude. I don't think most of these kids are trying to get pregnant but think that they are special and it won't happen to them.
I don't know about the UK, I'm from the US, however, as different as these places are, I think that in a lot of ways the 'Zeitgeist' is similar. If the teenage pregnancy rate is high, and I can't say for certain that it is, it is because teenagers are having sex. This may seem like a smart ass answer, but the fact of the matter is, there's no other answer that really needs to be given. Even with contraceptives, pregnancies happen, and that's assuming it's used in the heat of the moment. I find it interesting that people who want sexual liberation are some of the first to complain about the fact that there are consequences to it.
this scared me when i heard it but, according to what i heard on the radio (providing this is accurate of course), children can hit puberty from as early as 7 years old now. Thats quite alarming and the guy on the radio didnt bother to give any scientific information as to why that is, so i do doubt the legitimacy of it somewhat, but it does explain quite a few things.
If kids are maturing earlier, then they will feel urges to sleep with each other at younger ages.
Bah this world is messed up
If kids are maturing earlier, then they will feel urges to sleep with each other at younger ages.
Bah this world is messed up
