Is 12 year old girl's pregnancy a case of parental irresponsibility?
November 18th 2009 04:32
There was a story in “Woman’s Day” that I was reading online regarding a twelve-year-old girl who recently gave birth. A preteen, most likely a prepubescent child has become a mother way before she is ready.
Let’s just cut to the chase, shall we? This kind of story aggravates the hell out of me, not just because of the girls’ situation, but also the comments that readers made on the matter. First, there is no-one, no-one, to blame but the parents for this. You see, it’s all good and well to ask for more sex education in schools, but education begins at home, not in a classroom.
Believe it or not, parenting is a full time job, not part time or a casual thing that can be chosen to be done once in a while. It is a parent’s job to make sure that their children learn about life, whether it is something as mundane as learning how to swing a bat properly, or teaching some serious life issues such as drugs, alcohol or sex. Why would a parent leave those kinds of issues to people who are virtual strangers and who may or may not share the same old fashioned notion of values?
Having children growing up to be responsible adults begins with responsible parents. Parents need to stop abdicating their responsibilities and expecting schools and teachers to pick up a job that her parents should have done in the first place and clearly these irresponsible adults didn’t. If one of the comments on the page is true, the boyfriend lived in the home! This story is clearly about parental responsibility. Whatever happened to the line “Do you know where your children are?”
If it were up to me, the parents need to be arrested, charged and taken to court and either fined or jailed for child neglect and endangerment. Shame on the parents for helping to create this situation and shame on those who try to absolve them of their responsibility.
Let’s just cut to the chase, shall we? This kind of story aggravates the hell out of me, not just because of the girls’ situation, but also the comments that readers made on the matter. First, there is no-one, no-one, to blame but the parents for this. You see, it’s all good and well to ask for more sex education in schools, but education begins at home, not in a classroom.
Believe it or not, parenting is a full time job, not part time or a casual thing that can be chosen to be done once in a while. It is a parent’s job to make sure that their children learn about life, whether it is something as mundane as learning how to swing a bat properly, or teaching some serious life issues such as drugs, alcohol or sex. Why would a parent leave those kinds of issues to people who are virtual strangers and who may or may not share the same old fashioned notion of values?
Having children growing up to be responsible adults begins with responsible parents. Parents need to stop abdicating their responsibilities and expecting schools and teachers to pick up a job that her parents should have done in the first place and clearly these irresponsible adults didn’t. If one of the comments on the page is true, the boyfriend lived in the home! This story is clearly about parental responsibility. Whatever happened to the line “Do you know where your children are?”
If it were up to me, the parents need to be arrested, charged and taken to court and either fined or jailed for child neglect and endangerment. Shame on the parents for helping to create this situation and shame on those who try to absolve them of their responsibility.
| 64 |
| Vote |
subscribe to this blog
Comment by Susan Graham
And who/where is the "Father" of the baby
Comment by jamoz
Jamoz's corner
From what I read (I'm pretty sure it was only part of the whole story) it didn't say where the mother or the boyfriend is now. It spoke of the father alone. The story was pretty sympathetic to him and the whole situation.