[WEEK 4] Pre-Teen/Teen Parent Hood.

[DitchtheDebate]

This weeks topic is based upon a recent new father and mother, a boy aged 13 & a girl aged 15. The two have now been blessed with a baby daughter who has been named Maisie, Maisie came to be because the two had unprotected sex and didn't know the consequences of it, which come to the question of the topic:


Should children be taught about sex earlier on in life? Should parents talk to their children about life more? Will this baby be a bearing on the couple's life? How would the baby affect the couple's lifes? What do you think?

[thechickwithpinkhair]

i read in an article that the mother was also sleeping around with eight other guys and that the baby could be fathered by one of the other guys than the father that theyre publicizing. and her parents KNEW about it.

in my opinion yea kids should be taught about sex alot earlier than they are.
and also in my opinion.....where the HECK are this girls parents?
if this were my kid i wouldve beaten the crap out of her and put her on home confinement for a very long time.

eight people???
thats rediculous.


man i wish i could find that article.

[Darren]

I agree, i think they should be taught about sex earlier in life although i'm not happy about it because it totally wrecks their innocence (Not that many children tese days are innocent). One thing is that if they learn about it earlier....would that not just make them curious to try it? Not that a 4 to 10 year old boy can get it up xDD

Having a child can be a big burden on a teenager, people should be more careful. Alot of people just go around having unprotected sex and think that everything will be fine or "she's on the pill" but that doesn't mean you can go around without using a condom, there's still the chances of an STD.

I know a guy who never uses condoms and i worry for him sometimes, he's always going to cities to meet up with strangers and do the nasty. I don't see how people can be so careless, it's stupid and when i asked him why he does that all he said was "There's more pleasure without one." which is a stupid explaination to always have sex unprotected.

Silly!!

[Vampi]

I think that kids should know, and have a right to know.
At the same time, they should be responsible for their actions, and should consider how they might impact others' lives.


The only way I can really talk about it is by explaining how *I* handled it.

I started learning all the sex ed stuff when I was in 5th grade (primary school). They had separate classes for boys and for girls, and they taught us our respective curriculums. Each year after that, they would teach us together, boys and girls, and they centered it around abstinence-only courses. Under Bush, we were only taught abstinence-only courses. I strongly believe this was influenced by HIS christian beliefs and the christian beliefs of his mostly republican team. Ugh.

Alot of people didn't know about condoms, and more didn't know seriously about STDs and the like. Many kids started experimenting, which led to a high rate of STDs and teenage pregnancy in my school district. Blah Blah Blah...I waited.


I waited because I knew that I didn't want to burden others with my baby. I was going to wait to be an adult in the eyes of the law, because then I wouldn't depend on anyone. I never gave into peer pressure. I lost my virginity at 18, and I'm not one bit ashamed of it. I thought it all through.

Think your sh*t through. Hormones or not, that moment will pass, and the consequences could be severe. Have the self-restraint to hold back from doing something REALLY stupid. Dumb kids...


-Vampi

[SandraD]

I do believe children should be taught about sex earlier.
But for some it wouldn't matter.

This girl in my class is about 7months pregnant. Before everyone found this out all the adults suspected her to be a nice innocent girl but behind their backs she was a total ***** and liked to go around behind her parents back. So when it came up that she was pregnant all the teenagers were like "That's no big surprise", but the adults were like "Oh my gosh, her."
I know for a fact her parents had talked to her about sex. So with her it didn't matter she would've always wanted to sneak behind her parents back.


I'm pretty sure if this couple were taking care of the baby as if they were an older couple it would be a burden (it will be somewhat anyways) compared to teenage life w/o a baby, but they are, of course, going to have tons of help seeing how they're so young.

The kids these days that go around having unprotected sex are usually ones that have the idea that if they were to get pregnant there's always adoption or their family will surely take care of the baby and they'll go on with they're normal lives.
or the stupid ones, like my best friend Charlee lol, who does the "dirty dirty" with sometimes random, sometimes not, people unprotected & then when she thinks she might be pregnant she freaks out. UGH!! Your fault you decided to do that.

As for everyone else where I live, everyone is taught about sex & each year it's as if adults try other methods to get kids to wait, but every junior and senior class has a high pregnancy rate. Last yr. in my schools graduating class I think there was 3 or 4 of the 15 girls pregnant. So whatever they're doing isn't working. And now it's as if kids are experimenting at younger & younger ages. I know of 4th graders(10 & eleven year olds) that are, and I didn't start even thinking about doing it until like the 7th grade.

It's getting absurd. :stop:


-Sandra Ann