i think i have a way to lower the teen pregnancy rate. forget...oh youll have no free time, babies cost a lot, ect. No. Get a MOM who has had these things tell them about the joyous possibilities they could encounter, hyperemesis (throwing up till your body starts to eat itself and you end up in hospital covered in wires), SPD, where you cant walk sleep, move ect because your pelvis is moving apart and the bones grind together, inflamming the nerves. oh how about tearing during birth, how you cant sit down for weeks without wincing, how sex is a distant memory for months even if you can find time, vericous vulva for crying out loud, the piles, the stress incontinance, the stomach muscles that wont knit together again, the breasts that leak constantly, and finding that when your stiches have healed up, finally, they sowed you up wrong, so you look very odd down there and feel totally different. i think that would do it. of course not many people are that unlucky (what did i do huh?) but if i was 14 and heard that i would most definatly be using protection. of course the down side is that they may be terrified if ever they do get pregnant later on. hmm, not sure. What do you ladies think?
I don't think kids need to be scared out of having children. It can be a wonderful experience. Although I heard all the horror stories as a kid. my mom worked in the maternity ward for a while at the hospital. That's not what made me protect myself.
I know a way to lower teen pregnancy- actually have sex education in school! I know people (several of whom who have since gotten pregnant) who claimed completely random things would stop you from getting pregnant. For instance, having sex in a pool or douching after sex are common things I've heard from 14, 15, 16, and 17 year olds that I'm around. Normally these are also the girls (and guys) who go out drinking and might not necessarily be capable of thinking enough to use protection in the moment. I, for one, go to a school with many YOUNG teen pregnancies (14 and 15 year olds) because sex ed is banned from the county. Had I not taken the initiative to look up things on my own, I would never know anything because my parents have never given me the talk. Alot of people claim the burden should be on the parents but many parents simply won't do it. Scare tactics won't work either. We had to watch a video in 8th and 9th grade about a guy whose bottom jaw had to be amputated due to cancer because of years of chewing tobacco. Did that sway any of the guys from dipping? Of course not. Teenagers don't think anything bad will ever happen to them so even something as detrimental as not having a bottom jaw or chin doesn't hold a weight in their minds.
Hmmm, scare tactic have not worked to scare kids away from drugs or alcohol. There are classes in High School which teach the basics of pregnancy and childbirth and beyond (I am a guest lecturer at our local High School.) The "Baby Think It Over" doll, which the kids have to carry around, and it cries and and needs to be held and fed and rocked and needs almost constant attention is very helpful in reducing the teen pregnancy rate. (But the ones with the "Day Care Option" where you can actually turn the Baby OFF, so you can "get things done" is so unrealistic, that these dolls have a lower rate of reducing teen pregnancy. Not to mention it gives girls the idea that babies are a bother and it is better to dump them somewhere where they will not be in the way, if they want to "do something.") Teens think they are invulnerable. That is why DARE, Scare Films in Driver's Ed, ect simply don't work. Also, you wouldn't want them to NEVER want kids, because of the hyperbole of what they saw in a HS class. Telling teens the truth (and handing out condoms) is the best course, In My Opinion. Here's a link. http://www.solutions-site.org/kids/stories/KScat3_sol72.htm
the baby think it over doll is a great tool. I didn't get one that could turn off. I think it really helped a lot of girls and guys in that particualr school in reducing the teen pregnancy rate.
The program I work with at our High School (I do the breastfeeding education, and the number of girls who choose the "breastfeeding option" for the dolls (a little button you wear, instead of a bottle) has increased from "none ever" to about 3 or more per class of about 26 or so girls (and the occasional boy.) They DO work. Our school doesn't have the "day care option" so the girls and boys have to take care of the babies all the time, without a break, like a real baby. Enigma, I think it IS a good idea that you are thinking about this, though. Preventing a pregnancy is certainly preferable to the alternative. I applaud your efforts. Keep up the good work.
These dolls are a really good, tool, even though I barely see them here. But in the past, germany didn't have as many teen pregnancies as for example in the US or the UK. In my school, in the entire 10 years I have been there, there were 4 girls that got pregnant, 3 of them in the last year I have been there, and one of them was already 20. (Here we go to school until 19/20) I think A big part of that is owed to, that sex ed is a part of the curriculum of biology, and there is no way one gets around it. We learn about how girls become women, how boys become man, about conception and how to avoid it. Also the development of the pregnancy and baby... But there was in increase in the last 4 years or so.... but overall I'd say this is not necessary a lack of education, but a lack of responsibility, and generell tv-dumbness that is showing up in every field.....
We had those dolls in our Adult Roles class in High School. But we had a choice, we could either take the doll for a weekend or write a ten page paper. Since i don't plan on having any kids, because i don't like kids, i opted for the ten page paper. My friend and I did the paper together.
i dont know whats so wrong about sex that they wont teach it at school,why it is so hard to talk to teens about protection? they will have sex anyway, with or without sex ed, so why not start by telling them about what the consequences of having unprotected sex, from stds to pregnancy....its not rocket science...or is it?
Why not get the boys involved? Teach them about what it's like to be roped into paying for a kid at 15 for eighteen years, like my best friend. What it's like when the relationship that seemed good at 15 dies within the year but you're stuck having something to do with the person because you have a child together and the awkwardness of all that... etc. Takes two to tango. Teach the boys what the words "child support" means and how much it costs. Make THEM look after kids for a while.
Those baby think it over dolls are evil...mine like to laugh in the middle of the night...and do other random things...Baby think it over worked for me.
your probably right, i got them for years from my mum, nan, aunt ect ( in reasonably good humour) and still had a baby young, well 20, but i was still the youngest mum by 10 years in my antenatal classes, that was weird. tho maybe it says more about the attitude around here. its still seen as a bad thing to be a young mum really, so those who are dont tend to use the supprt, or maybe get offered it.
Like a ........baby! I don't mean the evil part, I mean, babies do things at random times. My kids all laugh in the middle of the night.
I agree about telling kids about the downside of having teen sex, the doll thing helps, and so does sex ed. in school, but the best solution is to spend 3 days w/a teen mother. I mean 24/7 deal and the 3 days would of course be Fri., Sat., and Sun.!!!! Get up w/this mom, when the baby does, feed it,diapor it (yes the poop ones as well) walk it when it can't sleep, hold it when it crys and won't stop, maybe it's collic, maybe not. And the most important thing w/this 3 day stay, find out if this teen mom is so happy to be home on Fri. and Sat. nites and not sleeping in on Sun. w/baby or would they if been given a 2nd chance to do it all over again insisted that they used protection or better yet waited untill they could be a mom when they were older? I say all this because the average teen mom after showing her boyfriend how much she really loved him, he left her like a dirty diapor and moved on to the next girl after he got his loving , she"s pregnant and now she's changing the diapors !!!
it wont work. here in aus we have these government ads "marijuana you wont know what it'll do to you" or "speed, you dont know what it'll do to you" and in the ads one girl is questioned by the police and found with a pipe and a bag of pot after running over a pedestrian and the next scene is a girl with potential at school is now a stoner and does nothing all day then it goes to another scene where a footy player is stoned on the feild, they need to win the game and passes the ball, he drops it. in the speed add it goes through all different phases like the paranoia and the angriness then the depression of coming down. then they show a club and she collapses and is wired up in hospital, then they show the cooks pouring all sorts of shit in the lab and it goes back to the hospital and the mother or the sister whoever it is goes "you never know who makes it" . so those ads are here and i look at them and think they are very well put together but stoners and speed heads probably dont take any notice of them. maybe stoners coz i used to watch telly and pulling a cone. they dont put the alcohol ads on anymore coz no one really drink excessivly!! maybe they should put a pregnancy one on.... i know its irrelivant what ive just said about the drugs, but my point is i think people will laugh and go "im young im healthy everything is fine" so we're naive thats how all us young ones will be, think the world is buttercups and daisies
We could implant spikes in girls vaginas, so that they would have to be removed surgically, once the girl is old enough. The spike wouldn't damage the clitoris, not that anybody cares, except me. Maybe implant something on the opposing side of the spike to stop it from poking the other side, or something? Edit: Of course, that'd suck. It'd make masturbating for wemon difficult, but hey, no more teen pregnancys!
