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Today's paper had a thought-provoking article that made me uneasy..what do you think?
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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 585074" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>The whole culture has changed so much since I was that age! It's a whole different world out there now. I graduated from high school in the mid-sixties and back then it was such a disgrace. I went to a small school but the whole time I think I maybe knew of two girls who became pregnant in high school! One girl dropped out of school and married the father who was just a kid himself and soon found herself divorced with a baby to take care of. Of course, her reputation was ruined and she was the the subject of town gossip for years. And she never returned to school because that was not allowed back then. The other was a girl who seemed to have it made. She was the cute, smart, honor roll cheerleader type. We knew nothing about it till one Monday when she and her brother weren't in school. Turns out that she and her whole family had picked up and moved to another county over the weekend without a word to anyone! She had apparently become pregnant by a boy in my class and the family moved because they didn't want to have the shame of having a pregnant daughter in an area where everyone knew them. Of course the boy went right on with his life like nothing had happened, playing football and basketball and graduating with the rest of us. </p><p></p><p>Of course those attitudes were very wrong. But now it has gone completely the other way! There is no shame or stigma attached at all now ... celebrities do it all the time and it has become almost "cool". 12 and 13 year olds are having sex in the back of the school bus and these kids are having babies! Ask anyone who has worked in a hospital, like my daughter, and they can tell you that it's not at all unusual to see 13 year olds coming in and giving birth. But just because it's acceptable to their peers doesn't mean that it's acceptable to the parents, and then you end up with babies in dumpsters and trash cans. My son graduated from high school in 1999. When he was a senior I remember him showing me his year book and he went through the pictures of the kids in his class pointing out which girls either were currently pregnant or had already had babies ... well over ONE-THIRD of the girls in his graduating class! And it's even worse now! And this generation of girls has much greater access to reliable birth control methods than our generation did. I really don't know what the answer is.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 585074, member: 1883"] The whole culture has changed so much since I was that age! It's a whole different world out there now. I graduated from high school in the mid-sixties and back then it was such a disgrace. I went to a small school but the whole time I think I maybe knew of two girls who became pregnant in high school! One girl dropped out of school and married the father who was just a kid himself and soon found herself divorced with a baby to take care of. Of course, her reputation was ruined and she was the the subject of town gossip for years. And she never returned to school because that was not allowed back then. The other was a girl who seemed to have it made. She was the cute, smart, honor roll cheerleader type. We knew nothing about it till one Monday when she and her brother weren't in school. Turns out that she and her whole family had picked up and moved to another county over the weekend without a word to anyone! She had apparently become pregnant by a boy in my class and the family moved because they didn't want to have the shame of having a pregnant daughter in an area where everyone knew them. Of course the boy went right on with his life like nothing had happened, playing football and basketball and graduating with the rest of us. Of course those attitudes were very wrong. But now it has gone completely the other way! There is no shame or stigma attached at all now ... celebrities do it all the time and it has become almost "cool". 12 and 13 year olds are having sex in the back of the school bus and these kids are having babies! Ask anyone who has worked in a hospital, like my daughter, and they can tell you that it's not at all unusual to see 13 year olds coming in and giving birth. But just because it's acceptable to their peers doesn't mean that it's acceptable to the parents, and then you end up with babies in dumpsters and trash cans. My son graduated from high school in 1999. When he was a senior I remember him showing me his year book and he went through the pictures of the kids in his class pointing out which girls either were currently pregnant or had already had babies ... well over ONE-THIRD of the girls in his graduating class! And it's even worse now! And this generation of girls has much greater access to reliable birth control methods than our generation did. I really don't know what the answer is. [/QUOTE]
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