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Some people have no appreciation for life. | by da-gimp | 2008-05-05 19:43:42 |
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Missouri. | by werehatrack | 2008-05-05 20:14:04 |
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Oh, please I doubt that is why... | by lab rat | 2008-05-05 20:23:52 |
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No. werehatrack has a point. | by run.dll | 2008-05-05 20:37:19 |
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Whatever happened to personal responsibility? | by the_diggity | 2008-05-05 20:46:12 |
| And you expect adult behavior |
by werehatrack |
2008-05-05 21:08:19 |
when the people involved are *kids*? Even if they aren't, who's going to pay the bills when the guy runs out on the pregnant girl, as happens a lot? This nation puts essentially no safety net under women in this regard, and worse yet, still places an enormous social stigma on them should they get pregnant and fail to get the guy to marry them...which coupled with the fact that our culture highly stresses the male privilege to "get some", places women in an automatically disadvantageous position with very few options...most of them not good.
I could go on and on about this, but the bottom line is that glossing over the realities of sex and simply saying Thou Shalt Not has been a documented failure for all of recorded history; it has *never* worked. If you really want young girls to stop having kids until they're in a position where the family can be reared in a stable manner, then they need to be taught - EARLY - *all* of the realities, including the available methods and reasons for contraception. Simply handing them a pile of rules that their hormones and instincts are screaming at them to break is a recipe for precisely what we've got; a mess.
The other half of it is that the Great Male Myth of Necessity and Unstoppability needs to be publicly ridiculed for the Lie that it has always been. Teach young men that they both can and must control their own urges, and give them some alternatives to use in doing so, and it's another step in the right direction.
Denying reality won't make it go away, and waving the flag of "personal responsibility" is a fine thing only until you're in the other person's shoes and facing the consequences of the circumstances that have led to that point. |
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Alternatives? Didn't a surgeon general resign in | by josie_beller | 2008-05-05 22:31:26 |
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That's one part. | by werehatrack | 2008-05-05 23:17:21 |
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I believe in education all-around | by josie_beller | 2008-05-06 00:23:53 |
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Hear, hear (n/t) | by Concept | 2008-05-06 05:43:07 |
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Two years to adopt a Down's baby? | by esbita | 2008-05-06 07:30:10 |
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