Tackling teenage pregnancy.

The answers ?

Well i am at loss, i have read today in First some ideas.

  1. Work with partners on reducing rates.
  2. Select a senior officer to champion the strategy
  3. Priortise sex education
  4. Provide training on sex education for partner organisations Provide well resourced youth centers
  5. Improve the economic emotional and health outcomes for teenage parents.

 

Well lets look at it. have we not seen all this before? come on how about we come into the real word, I sat as part of a Children’s scrutiny committee discussing the same topic three years ago. The results nothing why because we talk and talk but we don’t take measures to cure. Most of the people on that group where older than me and sorry to say i am past it. I asked a question .

I am sixteen i wish to try sex for the first  time when i leave this building where do i get condoms, i did it for shock value and it worked, but no answers no body had any idea. One person who attended the committee gave advice on sex, i asked about funding she said it’s all most gone. So how do we go about it. How do we end this down ward spiral.

Well sex education my family never gave any to me and sorry to say i was the same with my son’s. I joked and said to them do you think it’s time to talk about the Birds and The Bees! he said what did i want to know.

When i grew up teenage pregnancy  was unheard of ,is it our fault  do we seem to except it as the norm?

Is it to easy a way for some people to shirk there obligations to society.

If we carry on are we risking the breakdown of family structures

Morals is it a failing of the family,the School, the Church, us in general.

Well i will try anything that helps,but remember one thing if we fail do we have millions of young mums and dads destined for state hand outs and no future.

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