Comments on: Younger and younger kids are having sex

By: W

Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:49:15 +0000

WAPANG !!!!

By: Hillary

Hillary — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 06:19:53 +0000

The difference between now and 100 years ago.
100 years ago, 15-year-old were not called kids.

By: BLue

BLue — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 18:08:29 +0000

problem in family is one of the reason kids trying to search for love outside the family. Parents don’t have time to educate their children due to work and kids rely more on friends and media to grow up. Sex sales in the market but it gives the wrong signal to immature kids regarding sex before marriage. I’m not sure how they measure their temple (body), according to own will or peers pressure?

By: heartless

heartless — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 11:13:25 +0000

yalor… younger and yuonger…

By: Yoi

Yoi — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 07:37:18 +0000

Not to stray off from topic. How many people (read: girls) you know, regret how their first time, but still continue doing it anyway? Especially since years after their first.

It happens, too much too often for all we can say, or care. Just like other statistics, millions die from alien flu virus, millions die from choking on seaweed, millions here and there and we can only be glad that we’re not one of them millions, and in this case, we’re either glad that we’re not one of them, or our kids.

… and who are we to argue with the beast surrounded by raging hormones? Words of wisdom? Teenage A “I’m GONNA DO EEET!” Hermit-on-top-of-mt.smokey”Don’t do eeet aka you will regret it (especially in the event of a knock up)”. Who’s gonna listen? Fashion mags so easily accessible with tips, hints, tricks, walkthrough, cheats and what not to be lvl 99 in bed, who’s gonna listen? Then we have internets…

By: ClappingTrees

ClappingTrees — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 01:43:39 +0000

Certainly, a sprinkling of sensibility is necessary. Trends emerge slowly. For example, 1 in 4 youths have had sex, according to a July 2008 survey conducted by Bayer Schering Pharma of 240 ITE students, aged 15 to 20. Perhaps this cannot be generalized to all youths, given that this survey was conducted only among ITE students. Still, this figure is very high compared to my time (ahem! many years ago).

By: Jesta

Jesta — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:57:39 +0000

So… a single case then. This is a disturbing story, but it’s hardly a trend. Having been in the newspaper industry I am well aware of the need for a good headline, but I think that this is a fairly isolated case – even the article pointed out that this was the youngest case that they had come across.

We do need sensible education about the dangers and risks, but it should be sensible, not sensationalistic or the kids will find out on their own and the people that they should trust will lose credibility.

By: ClappingTrees

ClappingTrees — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:43:19 +0000

Very disturbing.

What the kids need is neither “prohibition” nor “(sex) preparation”, but rather reasoning skills, e.g. who they want to be, where they want to go, do you follow whatever you see or what others are doing, what it means to have sex, what are its possible consequences, are they ready, etc.

No one can make decisions for them. They simply need to first comprehend and apprehend.