I have raised children and am a grandmother. I cannot believe the amount of teenagers on this blog asking whether or not they're pregnant or how they can have good sexual relationships with their boyfriends or girlfriends. Where are the parents in these homes? The children are on the computers? But where are the parents???
2006-06-30 11:00:29 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
TO HEIDI_RAMMSTEIN: Why are you angry at a question? If you knew how difficult raising children was going to be without two dedicated parents in the home, why would you have made the decision to have sex before you were married, knowing there was a possibility of you getting pregnant? This is my point! Teenagers are not thinking and the parents are not raising them to think!
2006-07-07 18:56:10 · update #1
iam young father.I usually wonder the same about my friends.But iam happy that i have parents even to date keep saying which is right and which is wrong.Iam really happy about that coz it is out of their experience they teach me and so i dont have to fall into the same pit as they did.
Parents are seen god and God is the unseen parent.
2006-07-14 10:50:19 · answer #1 · answered by ammi n 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
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2006-06-30 18:04:23 · answer #2 · answered by Reghan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was thinking the same exact thing. I have 2 kids that use the computer daily & we told them that they could have computer time on some conditions, 1) They could only go on kids sites unless we view them first. 2) We get to check what they are doing at any time. They are fine with that. I usually am either in the same room or the next room where I can still see what they are doing. Kids need to be talked to. I have already spoke to mine about those things! I had my first child at 17. So, I understand kids will have sex no matter what we say. That's why we tell them we are here for them and will always be. I also told my kids that when they're ready to have sex, to come to me or another adult to get birth control. But, I'd rather them wait until marriage. I can only hope they'll listen.
2006-06-30 18:35:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The parents are at work or cooking dinner or something else that needs to be done. I too have raised my children, three daughters, and my 7th grandchild is on the way. My husband and I both worked and provided for them. We raised them to respect themselves and others and to respect their bodies. And guess what? my middle daughter "fell in love" at 15 and started having sex. Of course I didn't know about it! A week after her 16th birthday we found out she was pregnant. She had the baby and has raised him to be a fine young man. He is now 8. We were very strict on our girls, they couldn't go to any ones house unless we had met the parents. They couldn't spend the night at any ones house unless we really knew the parents. There were curfews and rules and if they weren't followed there were punishments, and we were still grandparents at a very young age. So please don't always assume that it's the parents fault. Don't get me wrong. We love our oldest grandchild and can't imagine life without him. But was it our fault that our daughter got pregnant at 15?
2006-06-30 18:17:00 · answer #4 · answered by nana4dakids 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Their parents are not aware.They do not know information technology and they do not know how to use computer.They are blind on it.Besides that their parents did not give a good teaching in their own religion so they did not keep their children's moral high enough for them.Their patrents have no effective control and communication with their children.They think their children are all right before something wiil happen such as pregnant before married or drug addict..They only give enough money and everything will be ok. and they do not monitor their children activities..They will angry if something bad happened to their children and will be too late.Preventing is better than curing.
2006-07-13 23:32:47 · answer #5 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some of what you are saying may be true but you cannot make a general statement like that about all parents. I say that because I am a single mother who has raised her kids to the best of my ability. Much better than some two-parent home. I've given them good Godly values and morals. However, my son(he just graduated high schoo) has done some things he has never seen his mother(me) do and he has heard me all his life talk against such things. But now that he feels he can make decisions for himself, he has made those choices. I still talk to him about it and when I am 'preaching', as he calls it, he can finish my sentences. So that let's me know he knows better, those are just choices he wants to make. I know my parents taught me against some things growing up that I as an adult did. They did their job raising me, I just made my choices.
2006-07-14 17:10:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe the parents know about it, and want their kids to have relationships at the level they're ready for, but you don't honestly think the kids would go getting each other pregnant in one another's houses, do you?
Besides, how do you know that they're teenagers? maybe they're older and are at perfect liberty to do these things themselves.
Personally, I think the kids should be allowed to do what they want to, unless it is physically hurting them. Having sex doesn't lessen their value as a person.
2006-06-30 18:06:29 · answer #7 · answered by she who is awesome 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
come on granny, times are a changing, parents have to work these days, including the mothers, not everything is a 8-5 or 9-5 mon-fri, what partent constantly has an eye on their kid 24-7?
and why r u on a website that mainly deals with teens and younger people?
2006-06-30 18:08:10 · answer #8 · answered by loca420 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hear you. This makes me sick to read what is going on out there. I have 2 daughters ages 6 and 5 and no way would I let them grow up and be like these kids that are on here. More and more you see where the parents aren't involved in theirs lives and it is so sad. I'm glad I'm not one of those parents.
2006-06-30 18:05:30 · answer #9 · answered by Illinoismom 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The family as we know it does not exist anymore. With the rising cost of living, both parents are having to work. Yes it is a very sad state of affairs when kids have too much unsupervised time on their hands. I don't think it is that the parents don't care.
2006-07-14 17:57:27 · answer #10 · answered by owllady 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Parents are both working now. Leaving television or nannies to raise them. It is quite sad which is why I have decided to wait for marriage. But we also have to believe in the ones who have learned from their mistakes that they can make it. What's done is done so we shouldn't ridicule them but say only constructive things for support and good advice. We can only pray the situation will improve.
2006-07-09 00:36:09 · answer #11 · answered by Songbird 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋