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Underage Sex
Why are more and more children participating?
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PS: Very funny, Fakeplastic. And enigma, that sounds just like my household when we were all little!
I'm the eldest of 4 too, and I have a classic photograph of us all: my mum is feeding my baby sister whilst I sit next to her feeding my dolly. One brother is attempting to brush mum's hair with the loo brush, whilst the other "poses" for the camera with the most evil grin you've ever seen and a red felt tip pen in one hand, the kitten by the scruff of her poor little neck in the other.
Georgit, the (other) men are a lot of the problem. Father at 15? Walk away sir, and have a nice day / life. Now perhaps if the fathers did have some sanctions against them (the snob in me says reduced benefits, I'm sorry) then perhaps they would be less keen to take a risk. However, I suspect this is because it is almost midnight and I have spent far too long on AB and not enough time reviewing the report due tomorrow. I'm sure tomorrow I will be my usual tolerant self and accept that some people can serious affect the lives of others and suffer no consequences
Thanks for your best wishes, they are appreciated.
Oh my god Georgit ! What did your mum say ? I think I would just have cried and cried if someone did that to my girls' hair. I guess it's one of those things where you can laugh about it later ...... much , much later ! When I was a little girl , I always wanted to be blonde and resented my blonde Barbie/SIndy dolls , so whenever I was given one as a present , I cut off all it's hair or chopped it into a mohican. So just be thankful that you didn't come round my house or you'd have gone home a baldy lol ! Thankfully I grew out of this stage. (Or did I ? .... evil laugh !!!)
ps For the record , I never cut anyone's hair - only my dolls' hair. (Like that's so much better !)
I'm sure that most of the problem lies with society as a whole, as well as the parents. When I was younger it was frowned upon to get pregnant if you were too young or if you were unmarried. You would end up the talk of the town and very probably ashamed of your predicament. You would be branded a hussie and ignored by some. Nowadays attitudes have changed so dramatically that most of society doesn't give a monkeys how old you are or whether you're married or not. Because of these changes there is now a lack of fear of getting pregnant.
I know that some girls still fear getting pregnant because of their futures or because of their families finding out, but there is now no fear of what society might say.
There is also the culture living off benefits. The more kids I have the more benefit I will get. There are families earning in excess of �30,000 a year in benefits. Where is the incentive to work or better yourself. It has already been pointed out that we live in a society of spenders. Everyone (and I know that's generalising) wants everything. A car, a house, the latest computer, hi-fi, holidays every year. And because the parents want this the kids do to. Parents nowadays give their kids more and more all the time and they lose the true value of things. We live in a society of debt where if we can't afford it we can borrow money and pay back later.
I think that parents and society all share the responsibilty.