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Thread #93073   Message #1786610
Posted By: Georgiansilver
18-Jul-06 - 04:26 PM
Thread Name: BS: Generous Britain
Subject: RE: BS: Generous Britain
I have absolutely no doubt that educating young girls is the way to go. I worked with pregnant 'teenage' girls and subsequently teenage mothers for over ten years....Almost a third of those girls were pregnant by their own father and the majority were pregnant by men over 35 yrs of age....The reason that they all gave was to do with where the 'LOVE' came from in their lives. Almost without exception they believed that they would gain independence and a flat of their own with the child they were going to lavish love on...In most cases and realising that they had been taken advantage of, they ended up giving up the baby they could not manage for adoption .
Let's educate girls from an early age as to what is right and what is wrong on the sexual front....in my mind the younger the better to prevent abuse and the taking advantage by older predatory males. Also let's teach those young girls what the reality of motherhood is in an effort to prevent the eventual rejection of their child.
Am I making sense here?
Best wishes, Mike.