Society and Pregnancy
 

I think this is appropiate for its own thread, mods can work their magic if I am wrong

ANYWAY!

Is it me or is society's view on teenage pregnancy become more and more relaxed to the point that it is almost being considered "normal" in the same fashion that homosexuality or premarital sex has followed.

There's even TV shows about it now following the lives of young parents...

My personal view on it depends on how it happened really, if you were stupid enough to go and have sex with no contraception then I really lack sympathy for you. But as we know contraception isn't always reliable and sometimes fails so then my opinion is completly different.

Sometimes I feel like it is just a way to sponge money off the government, especially when you see the condition of some of the chavs these days...

Without trying to sound like an asshole but whenever I see young mothers they always seem to be chavs or at least the father is chavy...

My mum was pregnant with me at 18 and from what I can understand it was unexpected but its not really something I want to talk to her about, it just really scares me because I'm 18 now and I just don't know how on earth I would cope.

Though my mum did say to me that it is one worry off her mind, that I won't come home and announce that I've become a father...

I have people from my school who are getting pregnant now, some are currently expecting, others are already raising their child. Before we even finished school, 3 girls were pregnant, 2 of them suffered a miscariage and the hard part for me was the fact that one was a good friend, but a while ago we had a falling out and haven't spoke since but from what I know these days she is raising a child now. One girl from school is currently raising 2 children. Not twins, 2 seperate births... I think she needs to slow down.

The attitude between these people have been different, most of the girls were totally shocked and a depressed wreck at first but they went through with it and manned up. One of my friends has got his girlfriend pregant and the pair of them were happy throughout it all, thats good and all, but at 18 things are going to be tough, I honestly think the pair of them are in for a huge shock when the baby arrives.

So whats your opinon on this? Is this out of control pregnancy rate on it's way to overpopulate the earth?

Share your views and feel free to throw in other points.

I think it's silly. A child cannot properly raise another child.

There a multitude of factors; financial independence, intelligence, and a stable environment being what I rate as the most important. All of these are outside the realm of your average teenager.

Alcar...

The earth is already over-populated. I say we get a large scale cull going and I'll gladly bite the bullet if I'm one of the 'undesirables.'

But yeah, pram pushers are getting younger and younger and I think it's getting out of hand.

Out of control teen pregnancy rate lead to overpopulation? Do third world nations not count?

UPDATE: My friends girlfriend gave birth yesterday,

Now I'm just waiting for it...

Vasectomies must be performed to a man on his 16th birthday. A supply of his sperm is kept on-hand incase of wanting to raise a family later in life.

This is why I'd be great at ruling the world.

You'd doom humanity to extinction, you mean. Semen needs to be frozen at an ideal temperature and properly centrifuged beforehand.

Alcar...

This information just makes me want to vote for Dix all the more!

This information just makes me want to not vote for Dix all the more!

I don't want to be ruined :(

Well you can be the Sperm Primarch of the United Continents of Dixanados.

UCOD?

There doesn't need to be a cull for the sake of reducing the population - Either we'll do it anyway to each other during a pointless war over nothing (then again WWII killed off over 62 million of us - And that was only 70 years ago. Didn't stop us being successful as a species), or nature will do that for us through climate change or disease.

We'll keep doing what we're doing until we're stopped from doing so - We're obviously incapable of making a decision to not reproduce for the benefit of our future, so something else will probably make that decision for us.

Enjoy stuff while it lasts, yo!

You are now in charge of renaming the world's countries into witty acronyms, like the Coalition Of Croatian Kings.

Heh.

I don't like it, but there's nothing I can do about it and neither should there be.

COCK

Anymore you need me to name?

Don't worry, in 2012 the infidels will be doomed to Hell and there's a lot of indfidels. So there will be more room for us lot. YOU'RE ALL DOOMED!

Is that, like, the opposite of the rapture?

The antirapture?

The punkture.

Like someone said, the world is way overpopulated, it should be suvival of the fittest but its not anymore, no ones allowed to die these days, they just keep sticking a new lung on.

Have fun dealing with people being even more irresponsible about sex, leading to more STDs in the population.

Also, the legions of rebellious 15 year olds knocking up chicks to stick it to the man.

Sticking it to the man.

With their dicks.

Oh snapture.

Including you, See ya around.

Meh, we'll colonise Mars, that's enough room for another four billion people, the world will keep expanding, we'll colonise the lunar surface, there's another two billion.

then we'll be invaded by a space faring race of giant green brutes wielding axes and primitive firearms

Providing that funding in general goes back into space-faring pursuits and our race survives that long of course :P

Well they (NASA) want to put a colony on Mars by 2050 but it's a one way trip.

If people get STDs, it's their own damn fault. The state will not deal with these undesirables.

Anyone who is pregnant when not selected for breeding programs will be forced to birth the child in the tundras of Antarctica, whilst the mother and father will be sent to learning camps. Refusal will result in being exiled to Africa (which I'm planning to make into a big wasteland prison thing. Prisons may get overcrowded...)

STDs is a good way of nulling down the population,

lolyeah with you there bro.

I should publish a manifesto.

The 25 Points of Anthony's Fartzy Party.