I know its a catholic country that is trying to catch up with modern women’s health practices and i can sympathize with the married woman with 5 kids already who doesn’t want or need anymore …
its the rest of the article …
do they not teach their girls that if your 15 you shouldn’t be in bed with a 23-year-old?
Or did the writer find the dumbest teenagers for this article?
I know they’ve got other problems than this but what the UN and others need to do is tell these places 1. until you pass age of consent laws and molestation laws and enforce them we ain’t giving you anything
and make everyone sit through a class of two of sex ed and what’s appropriate and what’s not … for males and females
Also they should be handing out condoms and such for the males too …
There was another article i read last year that said the underage sex trade was moving from Asia and Eastern Europe to South America … and I could see why … when you only earn 4 bucks a week renting your kids out for 30 bucks an hour to tourists and such for something they seem to be doing anyways looks like an odious no brainer …
the last line of the article tho
My advice? KEEP YOUR LEGS CLOSED and dont put out to deadbeats you dont know …
If a child is molested/raped and then becomes a mother, the last thing I’m going to do is yell at the kid about keeping her legs closed. I don’t want to scream at the news article, but I’d like to scream at the OP.
but the girls in the article weren’t forcibly raped the one was quoted the most just went off with a 27-year-old and seemed not to know a lot about her boyfriend to the point he already had kids the article (inferred several) which she didn’t seem to know about until she found out didn’t want anything to do with the one she was having which … at which point he was never seen again
and getting the implants/pills just seemed to me to enable the cycle … there wasn’t a thought expressed about "hey maybe we should change things "
There is a reason statutory rape is a thing. 15 year olds, especially those who may have few choices and limited sex ed, generally cannot make informed decisions like this. They are easily manipulated and coerced, especially when desperate and poor.
It’s the adult men who need to keep it zipped and leave children alone.
nightshadea, I want to be nice to you, but you are making it hard. Just stop posting about this, and no one will have to be harsh with you and hurt your feelings. Seriously, dude, just stop now. There are a lot of issues at play here. Go read about the cycle of poverty, and about how young people are coerced into sex, and about how PEOPLE LIE! Educate yourself. Sweet Zombie Jesus.
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Right. Just sit there and starve to death like the quiet, virtuous saints we raised you to be. Yes, economic opportunity for women is next to nothing here, yes, the entire economy is in collapse, yes, your only hope is marriage, yes, men know they can manipulate you with a single meal, and yes, you’ve been taught to do everything in your power to make yourself attractive to men. Use those crystal balls we gave you. You should magically know which ones are real marriage-minded meal tickets and which just want to use you. [\sarcastic font]
Or punctuation, spelling, grammar, capitalization, paragraphing, or any other aspect of the written word. It’s fucking near impossible to glean what he or she is trying to say. Oh, I did note that nightshadea got the ages wrong of the girl and the “boyfriend”. Other than that, WTF?
It’s a real sad thing for sure. I live in the deep south. I think Arkansas ranks #2 behind Mississippi in teen pregnancies. In my childs senior class of 218 probably 15 were pregnant. 10 or so had kids already. Not including the boys who were Dads already. That number is hard to pin down. I know one boy had 2 kids by 2 different girls. It is a poor rural area. Birth control is free at a local County health unit. Prenatal care is free. They have WIC which is nutritional aid. All the help in the world. Condoms are free at most convienance stores. Right there on the counter. Sex education, though rudimentary is taught in school from 8th grade on. And still we have a huge problem. Telling girls to keep their legs closed isn’t gonna help. At. All.
I don’t know the answer.
But, we need to clean up our own backyard before we lament about basically a 3rd world country. I know that.
It’s not even a matter of “birth control”. For a lot of those girls, the only thing they have that they have been told is of value is what’s between their legs. No schooling, no jobs. One of the things that happen when someone’s vision is shortened by poverty is that they tend to be overly literal: generations of poor Venezuelans didn’t get married or registered because both marriage documents and birth registration ones asked for “name of the husband” and “name of the wife”. Great-grandma had her babies on the wrong side of the blankets, so they never got registered, so they didn’t get married, so their babies didn’t get registered… When she went there c. 1990 to spend a year doing missionary work, my cousin was kind of confused at the notion that someone with a degree in Psychology would be of much use: she spent the next 11 years (until she got kicked out on account of being a Nasty Colonialist) helping people get registered, married, sending to school children that they had believed did not have the right to schooling on account of not being registered on account of their parents never having gotten married on account of themselves never having been registered on account of someone generations prior being born on the wrong side of the blankets…
It’s not a new thing: it’s a resurgence of an old thing, against a background which is much worse than it used to be. Nowadays if you manage to get a babydaddy who’s actually responsible, he may not be able to do much more than you can do by yourself, and someone with a decent job but who’s not in the right side of the government can lose everything to another crazy decree.
While you’re telling the girls to keep their legs cross don’t forget to tell the boys (and men!) to keep their trousers zipped. Somehow this always revolves around the girls but we all know that women don’t generate sperm on their own, there is ALWAYS a man involved yet somehow he’s invisible.
On top of that, if the choice is “have sex or starve” WTF do you expect people to do? The vast majority of people will trade sex for food under those circumstances. You don’t fix that by screaming at the ones that get pregnant (or catch an STD or whatever other bad consequence you care to name), you change that by giving people actual options.
Bingo. Teenagers being the same everywhere, I bet most American high schools, rich or poor, north or south, have essentially the same conception rate; the only difference is how many pregnancies are brought to term.
I expect usage of birth control/prophylactics has some variation, based on things like quality of sex education, availablility of cheap/easy to acquire condoms, proximity of orgs like Planned Parenthood, etc.
This could be part of a Monty Python skit.