A girl that I know is pregnant and is only 13 years old. Is today's society to blame? This is just an example of many cases today in which young girls are getting pregnant. Your Views please.
2006-07-17 23:57:53 · 41 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
well maybe its easy to blame society, but I blame the twopeople involved-if it was concensual sex, then how can they blame the world!!!
2006-07-17 23:59:27 · answer #1 · answered by sandi smith 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The parents or parent is to blame. Children neede supervision. If they do not get it, then they will do what is right in their own eyes. It is a parent's responsibility to bring a child up correctly. The Bible says that a child should be brought up in hte word of God, so that they will not err in life. The Bible is mostly absent in homes today. A large number of households are headed by a single parent. Promiscuity seems to be handed down from generation to generation these days. This girl will be 14 when she has her baby. Her life has just ended because she will spend the rest of her years raising that child. A parent never stops being a parent no matter how old the child gets. We must remember that society is made up of people. To blame everything on "society" is an easy cop-out. People are to blame, and the only people that the finger can be pointed are the parents of this child. If the father is absent, that does not excuse him from blame. He is suppose to be head of the household and present to bring his daughter up in the Lord. God loves this child and her baby. Although "society" will scorn her and discriminate against her and ultimately blame her instead of her parents, God will not abandon her. What does a 13-year-old know about life? Obviously nothing, if she gets herself pregnant. I have seen girls of a lesser age get pregnant, as young as 11. God help us all.
2006-07-18 00:09:37 · answer #2 · answered by Preacher 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, I don't blame society for her pregnancy. I blame her for being stupid enough to think that at 13 she's mature enough to have sex. The fact that she did it without using protection just goes to show how little she, or the 'father' know. Having said all that, just look at the clothes on offer for children/ teenagers these days. Half the stuff you would not even see on a hooker. And then you wonder why kids think they are a lot more grown up than they really are. Maybe if children were allowed to be children again, things could change.
2006-07-18 00:08:01 · answer #3 · answered by tanja_christina 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Eer.. Well, society can surely be blamed for the vast amount of sexual things coming from TV, clothes... etc. which makes sex fashionable. But don't forget that a 13 year old girl is already matured enough to give a birth. Still the most responsible people are the ones who had sex and the parents.
2006-07-18 00:04:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
In this society we see this as a major issue, however other cultures see it differently.
If this was on some distant plain in the wilds of Africa no-one would batter an eyelid.
It is not Africa though, it is England/UK.
My major issue with this sort of thing is the fact that I have to pay taxes for the upkeep of these bloody idiots.
If the burden of cost was to be placed on the respective families of mother and father, then this sort of thing would cease, as more parents may take more of an active interest in what their children were upto.
Sadly we are are welfare state that succumbs to the whims of these miscreants at each and every turn.
Put the buggers in a forced labour camp, shoot them, anything, so I can keep my hard earned cash from propping up the next generation of leechers, chavs, crooks, etc.
2006-07-18 00:11:22 · answer #5 · answered by stew_redhill 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Personally I blame society and the parents of both parties. Society for making young girls and boys grow up far too quickly and the parents for not teaching the children about safe sex and the consequences of having unprotected sex. It's not just down to the schools as a lot of people like to believe!
2006-07-18 00:03:24 · answer #6 · answered by Tuppence 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think it is perfectly fine if it was still the old days when we didn't live much more than 40 actually my great grandma had her first kid when she 13 i think society is to blame for the fact that we encourage people to wait till they are of legal age i think when should realize that if teens are capable of having children then they should have the responsibilities that it implies and learn to take care of themselves ...... not really i would probably have to kill anyone that touches my daughter before she is at least 15 the problem is you have young teens idolizing famous people like Angelina Jolie and Britney spears and so they want kids too or something like that..
2006-07-18 00:17:05 · answer #7 · answered by twistedlifesmysteries 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fifteen years ago my friend said to me she wanted all her kids by the time she was 21. We were 15 at the time. She fulfilled her promise of 3 kids with a guy that didn't give a f**k about her. She now admits having children was to fill a void in her life i.e. unconditional love that she didn't feel from her parents. Furthermore, because the father of her first child had another child elsewhere, she had to have another child to show her peers that she had a higher status over the other mother! Sad and crazy at the same time. I think it's a combination of both parents and society. Parents fail to instill self-respect, confidence and openess with their children. And society is waiting to prey on the weak and vulnerable without these basic tools to look after themselves.
2006-07-18 00:10:49 · answer #8 · answered by Ms Bleu 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No ! every one blames society for things like this. it's the parents to blame. if they where better parents then the kids would understand that sex at 12 /13 is wrong. schools and society can only teach so much. the rest is down to the parents. Monkey See monkey Do !!!!!
2006-07-18 00:03:33 · answer #9 · answered by rock_style 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Oh, that used to be the norm - just think the Juliet is celebrating her fourteenth birthday, and her mother is telling her she should already have been married, and that she, the mother, already had given birth to Juliet at that age. I know it's not too good, I mean at that age most girls are still not mature enough, but...
And then I recently read a story about a nine-year-old girl who had a daughter, and _that_ spooked me out. I read that the police were investigating rape (it was along the Amazon somewhere).
2006-07-18 00:00:51 · answer #10 · answered by AlphaOne_ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So what else is new. She ain't the first and damn sure won't be the last. Why blame society? How about her parents? Maybe a couple of good *** beatens would have prevented this.
2006-07-18 00:01:19 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋