Is it me?

Lampman

Lampman

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Picture the scene your 11,12 or 13 year old child is playing out with his or her friends it is growing dark,suddenly they are approached by a group of strangers.Is it a mugging? An attempted kidnapping? Neither.' Hey you guys who wants to be tested for STD's'? Volunteers found off they troupe to have a sample tested.
Now I am a self confessed dinosaur in my PC outlook(remember they did survive for millions of years).But can anyone explain why these professionals are going around testing and supplying underage kids with condoms, contraceptive pills and morning after pills,without parents or guardians being aware?Did you know abortions can be organised without parents or guardian's knowledge?
Is it a residue of Blair's nanny state or is it going to be an ongoing thing.
Of course the PC supporters willl say'STD's are rising and teenage pregnancies are soaring we need to act.'
Well I say, yes someone needs to act I think it may be the parents need
A)Informing of little Wayne and Waynette's problems.
B)The forces of law should have a campaign of prosecution for these underage Lolitas and Don Juans and if found negligent their parents should also be collared.
But of course I am being over simplistic,I don't realise the issues.
After all we can't keep handing out flats to homeless teenage mothers can we?
Well one thing I do realise all this is going on in Accrington and hundreds of other areas throughout our once decent society.
What do we do?
Answers on a post card please!
 
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Reece came home from school with a condom a few months ago, he was only 13 at the time, i was gobsmacked when he told me where he'd got it from, i'm all for early learning and that but i reckon thats more encouragement giving them out at that age
 
Yes ,Benipete I am doing signings at Wh Smiths,it's called the ' Death of Society and the Rise of the Scroats'
 
jaysay said:
Don't know about a book Beni, he could probably write a trilogy on that subject
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As could we all but it is still not clear if we are to imagine an event or if indeed it took place.:confused:

If it did then there are a lot of gaps to be filled.
 
Lampman said:
Picture the scene your 11,12 or 13 year old child is playing out with his or her friends it is growing dark,suddenly they are approached by a group of strangers.Is it a mugging? An attempted kidnapping? Neither.' Hey you guys who wants to be tested for STD's'?
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Tried to picture it, obviously not blessed with your imagination, I just cannot imagine officials of any kind roaming the streets trying to get young children to go with complete strangers to have their genitals tested. That sort of thing would I suspect only be performed in an unofficial capacity by the dirty mac brigade.
:rolleyes:
 
I always think the pre-pill generations must have shown great restraint.

Not one of them having got 'caught', whilst unwed.

:rolleyes:
 
Well for the doubting Thomas's, the event was real,it did take place and the people involved were 'Health officials'taking urine samples from the kids who volunteered.
 
Lampman said:
Well for the doubting Thomas's, the event was real,it did take place and the people involved were 'Health officials'taking urine samples from the kids who volunteered.
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To prove this you are of course going to put a link in to a site that can confirm such goings on?
:)
 
I am sure that we all realise that current youngsters didn't(as they seem to think) invent sex.

I know that my Grandparents indulged in premarital sex........they were married whislt my Grandma was in an 'interesting' condition......and their first son was born six months after they were married.

I am pretty sure that the youth of that era were not as promiscuous though.
maybe that was because there were less facilities to obtain contraception, and that having a baby outside of marriage was something which had a definite social stigma attached to it.
Today children seem to be educated to think that a sex life is their 'right'....and while I do not personally want to get into the ethics or morals of this view.....I think that any 'right' has to be balanced by responsibilities.

We are fostering hedonistic values in our youngsters......an 'anything you want, you can have it' mentality. We do not teach restraint. These attitudes to morals and ethics spill over into other parts of our childrens lives. Children also learn by example and there may be elements of society today, who children are influenced by more than their parents. Monkey see, monkey do.

Now I'll duck and watch out for the flying bricks.
 
Gayle said:
No, but that's because they got married at 16.
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I was almost 19, and was still a virgin on my wedding day, despite a two year long engagement.

'Heavy petting' was acceptable and did relieve the tension somewhat.

Society's attitudes have changed a lot since those days.
Virginity is no longer a virtue, and, thinking about it, perhaps it never should have been considered so.
 
Perhaps the problem these days isn't the fact that young people get pregnant (that's always been the same), perhaps its because liberal parents refuse to take the shotgun approach to marching people up the aisle.
 
MargaretR said:
I was almost 19, and was still a virgin on my wedding day, despite a two year long engagement.

'Heavy petting' was acceptable and did relieve the tension somewhat.

Society's attitudes have changed a lot since those days.
Virginity is no longer a virtue, and, thinking about it, perhaps it never should have been considered so.
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I think attitudes have changed in the last thirty years.

When Lady Diana Spencer became engaged to Prince Charles, her uncle publicly proclaimed her virginity. (Though goodness knows how he knew!)

Thirty years later, the woman likely to be Queen of England, Kate Middleton, has been living as (unwed) man and wife with Prince William for years, and reportedly didn't enter his bed pure as the driven snow.

Humans are no different from any other rutting animals.

I'm just happy I'm waiting for someone worthy enough.

:D
 
Gayle said:
Perhaps the problem these days isn't the fact that young people get pregnant (that's always been the same), perhaps its because liberal parents refuse to take the shotgun approach to marching people up the aisle.
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Generally people that were 'caught', did get marched up the aisle. As long as one wasn't already married. Otherwise the girl would be sent off to some Dickensian home for unmarried mothers.

I wonder how many people who were forced to marry, spent miserably unhappy lives, tied to people they had nothing in common with, other than having shared a youthful tryst, that resulted in a pregnancy?
 
By the way, I do think chastity is important.

I'd much rather young people be taught that their bodies are precious, and mindless sex shouldn't be entered into lightly.

Teach respect, not rubbers.
 
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