Another possible reason is that the Pope doesn't like birth control....no aye pastillas.....Jesse or Jr, any truth to that?TMW - 11-11-2004 at 08:22 AM
It's sad and I'm sorry to say it happens too often even here. Girl gets pregnant and drops out of school. In the end you have another generation of
under-educated poor people.
The choices one makes is the steering wheel of the path they take.
Baby Think-It-Over
Frigatebird - 11-11-2004 at 09:27 AM
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Originally posted by grover
How about that teen education program where they take a doll that cries and poops all the time, and lets prospective teen moms have a try at caring
for them for a few minutes here and there? Unreal.
Some high school health curricula in Southern California include such a program sans the poop. Seems to begin to erode the fantasy, and replace it
with the reality..., the burden/blessing that child-rearing is.
Frigatebird
[Edited on 11-11-2004 by Frigatebird]wilderone - 11-11-2004 at 09:36 AM
"Why did you have a baby so young?"
You all need to learn the facts of life. The last time I glanced through a biology book, says takes TWO - a man and a woman. I doubt very much that
these young girls are choosing to have a baby to love them. You wanna know the real problem? Men who take advantage of the situation. And the same
men who walk away from the problem they've created. Perhaps started a generation earlier with the fathers who have abandoned their families and these
girls. Moreover, the MEN in the equation don't feel they have any responsibility for their participation. A step in the right direction would be a
change in the MEN's attitudes.BajaGrrls - 11-11-2004 at 10:43 AM
Over the past four or five decades children have been physically maturing at a much younger age than in the past. This is particularly noticeable in
black and latina girls who reach puberty as young as 8 or 9 years of age. What hasn't caught up to this, is education. Ideas that worked in the
1950's and 60's (i.e. abstinence as a moral issue) no longer work, yet new approaches such as teaching safe sex, are met with strong resistance from
the largely "old school" conservative crowd. Teens are simply unprepared to face the consequences of their actions.
It seems to me that we (perhaps on a global scale) put more resources into dealing with the problem after the fact than we do to stopping it from
happening in the first place.
Yes, but...
David K - 11-11-2004 at 10:55 AM
... for preventing pregnancy, doesn't abstinence work 100% of the time it is tried?
BajaGrrls - 11-11-2004 at 11:04 AM
I don't know, look at what happened to Mary. bajalera - 11-11-2004 at 03:59 PM
Baja Grrls, if I didn't hate those smiley little faces that jump up and down, I'd give you six dozen of them for that.
bajaleraJESSE - 11-11-2004 at 04:40 PM
The county of Ensenada is very large, the biggest in the state, there is a huge problem in the agricultural Valleys of San Quintin and others where
mostly indians live and work by the thousands, teenage pregnancy is only one of the huge problems they have down there. This problem is nation wide,
but i would say its bigger in places where theres virtually no education and no jobs. Dave - 11-11-2004 at 10:48 PM
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Originally posted by BajaGrrls
I don't know, look at what happened to Mary.
Mary who?David K - 11-11-2004 at 10:53 PM
You know, that nice Jewish girl!Dave - 11-11-2004 at 10:58 PM
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Originally posted by David K
You know, that nice Jewish girl!
I know of no nice Jewish girls named Mary.David K - 11-11-2004 at 11:13 PM
You would have to be born 2000 years ago to meet any Jewish girl named Mary...
