dunqn,
That is one of the nastiest, most pathologically reactionary posts I have ever seen on a message-board. And then it was followed by a second, which in its simplicity was even worse.
Parents, society, or the little slut? The
man is not an option here, clearly.
Most of the country is like this. These people no doubt live in stinking poverty. Yes, the parents will be scummy, shitty neds. But they're probably happy being on the dole, leeching off society, having a grandchild at 34 is probably an achievement to them - presumably the only thing they ever have, or ever will achieve.
This can't be credited with anything. You
know you've extrapolated to a gross stereotype from almost no information whatsoever.
At the end of the day, it's horrible stories like this that have left me very much with the thought - "there's absolutely no way I'm bringing up kids in this country". There's only so much you can shelter them from whilst being fair, and I've no intention, when the time comes, of being dangerously overprotective.
Whence comes the desire to shelter them at all?
I just want to rest happy in the knowledge that wherever I am, they're not going to be hanging about with the sort of scum that gets pregnant at 11.
Jesus!
There's two possible terrible things going on there. The first is the implication that anyone unforunate enough to get pregnant at 11 becomes "scum"--for
what? The second is the repetition of the stereotyping--that this kind of thing only happens to those at the bottom of the social ladder--who you then categorise as "scum".
Jesus!
By growing up in these areas - or this country, to be fair - they're losing their childhood far, far too early. Kids should be playing football in parks and whatever else kids do, not having sex, doing drugs and committing crime. Call me massively opinionated and/or misinformed, but you can't deny that in many places, this is the case.
Committing crime is a different issue--nobody should be doing it, and that kids do (as they
always have done--Oliver Twist, anyone?--this is nothing new!)--but, of course, children, who haven't developed enough self-awareness and understanding of the world, shouldn't be doing things with such huge repurcussions as drugs and sex. It's mentally and physically dangerous.
But what solution do you propose?
Especially considering this--
and another thing, it's nothing to do with the schools. They teach awareness more than enough.
If you compare rates of teen pregnancy and STDs in Britain and in a country like the Netherlands where sex education is compulsory and explicit from a very young age, you will find that their rates are much better. It's that simple. We do not sufficiently educate. People don't know their own bodies.
There's an exact analogue with drugs--legalise a drug and control its use, and the social problems connected with it go down. And, looking at the stats, since we started hammering drug education into kids at school, things have started to improve.
You seem to want to shelter children, to make sex taboo.
That's what leads ot the problems. Or do you? What do you
want,
dunqn?--for you, what place in the world should sex have?
