Teenagers these days scare me. Yes, they do. For a whole variety of reasons. I work a whole lot with kids, teenagers and young adults. The number of youths engaging in pre-marital sex seems to be sky rocketing, let alone the number of teen sex infections. Whats more, its totally fine by them. Its normal, cool, necessary and there is no remorse or regret.
I've been reading reports and articles of recent times of cases of teenage pregnancies/abortions/teen sex infections, where the girls have been found to have been sexually active from the age of as young as 12. This is where i get traumatised. I'm not saying that pre-marital sex is wrong. I mean, come on, to each his own. If you think you want to have sex before marriage, by all means, thats your call. However, i would expect that sort of behaviour from matured young adults, ranging from an age group of about 21 and above. Why? I dont mean to be a conservative trash-talker but at least at that age, you are pretty much a responsible adult and would be liable for your own actions. When you're under 16 yrs of age, you need parental consent to pretty much do ANYTHING in Singapore. Having the right frame of mind to bear the consequences, should you get pregnant, is not one that is present in adolescents. Think about it. The age requirement to watch a RA movie is 21, for heaven's sakes. How does it then make sense for it to be OK for one to have sex at a age under 21 but meet the requirement to watch a MOVIE that has explicit sexual contents. Thats not it. Not only do they have sex at a ridiculously early age, they have unprotected sex. There is going to be no time for long pity-parties if this goes on.
There is a need to address the early experimentation of sex in today's youth. Or rather, the experimentation of any vice. It might be the culture, it might be modernisation, it might be the easy access to sexual/explicit contents and information online. Whatever the case, it is just not healthy.
If you wanna know.
Teen sex infections likely to hit new high
P.S. Our tiny graduates, fresh out of kindy aren't any better. My experience of teaching at xxx Primary School taught me that. 4 letter words of sorts have become part and parcel of their daily vocabulary. These kids are primary 1 and 2 kids, mind you. What has become of nurturing parents? Is bad parenting or negligence the reason for the rise in such early onset of such delinquent behaviour? Beats me.
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well, this issue is fast becoming a talking point beyond SG. Look at our western counterparts. they are facing similar issue as well.
and, how come there is not NGO targeting at this social problem?
Sleeping around seems the norm these days. I've had friends of friends who go clubbing for the sole purpose in hooking up ith random guys and going home with them. Like what you said, teenagers have no qualms displaying all sots of lewd behaviour when they're with their boy/girfriend. I always wonder what schools today teach in their moral education lessons. Whatever it is, it doesn't seem to be working.
I just can't believe how westernized Singapore is becoming. Sleeping around is so normal nowadays. It really makes me feel sick, when i hear underaged kids having sex. Imagine if i'm a mother and my kid does that. I think I would be really heartbroken!
What can we do? E only thing we can do is to either become a social worker or become a prominent politician so as to arm ourseleves against these little fiends and their acts while we address these issues publicly and actively play a vital role to rectify the problems.
The source of this problem would be: Globalization, bad reference group,normative influence, the adoption of indivdualist culture and downward social comparison. Most importantly one has to understand that its that age where hormones are raging n kids tend to be rather unstoppable explorers...its society,environment and the transition from childhood to adulthood...Andre'
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