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Teenage Pregnancy |
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24/05/06 (647 review reads) |
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Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Your whole life ahead of you is delayed or even lost
The U.K may well have the highest stats in Western Europe but worldwide I wonder if it is in fact not Africa.
In Sub-Saharan Africa which South Africa is a part of due to our political past teenage pregnancies are high as a result of “lack of education”. Among the black sector of our population, young black girls as tradition goes are not educated in this regard, as a traditional black woman with power is unacceptable. They are there to produce and that is exactly what they do. With the whole aids pandemic black males do NOT use condoms as they feel they were made by whites to diminish their race, again (lack of education). Our government spends millions annually trying to convince the nation that safe sex is the only way to prevent aids but this idea is catching on very slowly. It is a custom/belief amongst certain tribes that if you rape a non aids baby it will cure you – shocking I know but it is rife in our news. Black people in our country also believe that AIDS is a white man made disease and we have brought about to eliminate them – Can you believe it?
Although we are now a democratic country we still have leaders that partake in radical traditions that the rest of the world consider sadistic such as circumcision of young boys at the age of 18 with a minora blade. (an old fashioned shaving blade) Many of these boys in fact die as a result and cannot perform sexually ever again, note this procedure is conducted without any medical supervision and without anaestetic. This leaves the question of (so why do so many pregnancies still happen). The answer could lie in another tribal tradition whereby in villages where a chief may still rule has first option on a new bride even if it is his own daughter or his sons new wife. Further should his own wives not produce a son for him he will take on a young girl as young as12 and up to produce a son for him, again (lack of education). These are not theories but historical fact. It is not uncommon among black families to have up to 12 children and this to them is classified as wealth as 8+ children can support the parents when they are old. Therefore their daughters are forced into marriage and to have as many children as they can. (usually only found in traditional tribes)
A lot of modern black woman actually run away when they are young to avoid forced marriages and pregnancy but the big wide world is often too much to deal with and with no education, some of them end up a prostitutes or even gang raped just to get food. I am not saying it does not happen to whites it certainly does but per capita the highest risk category are black woman.
We have black doctors, nurses, chief nurses that the government has set up in clinics all over the country to assist young black woman in educating them etc.. but the problem is the belief. They don’t believe in contraception as (the white’s brought it on) they can’t ask men to use condoms as the same white belief is there, so where to from here????
We have even shipped Celebrities out here to assist in educating and although it seems to be sinking in, I feel it will be many light years ahead before there is a noticable change.
Now to give you some statistics which totally contradict my statemenst.
South Africa has been estimated to have one of the lowest fertility rates in Sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than three births per woman nationally and still on the decline. At the same time, adolescents giving birth are at 30% of the female population, of which these woman are bearing between the ages of 14 – 19. Surveys were done in Urban and Rural areas, however, education is playing a new role since 1998 and black woman are being empowered, white woman in South Africa are only starting families after the age of 28 which is late but financially this is the only time when they feel they can do it.
My personal solution to the problem is that sex education should be a subject at school that needs to be passed like any other subject. We live in a time where television and media advertise sex like they invented it, which I feel attracts the young as censorship does not ban them from watching it. The age restriction laws are too lenient. Parents too need to educate their children and not necessarily lead by example. Like we are forced to pay taxes, children / adolescents should be forced to listen and possibly make a law that children should not be born to parents under a certain age, obviously this statement may invite a laugh or two from my critics but government should take control on this, as our little world is running out of space and there are in fact just too many of us as it is.
PLEASE NOTE - that I am not picking on Black people specifically but in our country black is the majority and white the minority so naturally statistics are what they are!
POWER TO THE PEOPLE - for this statement Education is supreme power!!!
Thank you to noodlesandwhich for your comment on my Racism article but obviously you misunderstand - I am NOT an Afrikaner and therefore did not participate in demoralising black people I actually am from Irish decent and one of my family members actually died fighting for equality and HUMAN RIGHTS!!!! that is why I push for education in SUCH a strong way.
I was merely stating that democracy has in fact NOT brought about change.
Summary: EDUCATION, EDUCATION, EDUCATION!
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