Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Teenager pregnancies
I am so proud of Bristol, the 18-year-old daughter of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and her mother. I am not saying that is ok to have sex at a young age, but once they did they need someone to support them with any decision they make. There are many teenagers who don’t have anyone to support or help them with their babies and financial problems that come with it. Then some of them they ended giving up their babies to foster families, which is not good for the mother nor the babies. When they don’t have their babies with them they face many situations everyday of their lives. For example; these cause them to have sex with more than one person and exposes to have transmitted diseases. Most of the time the teenagers’ parents, don’t openly or honestly teach them or tell them the consequences they will get when they make stupid mistakes.Even though they try to help their children, they do that when the children are already in the situations that they can’t control anymore. I was watching a TV show called “Sex With Mom and Dad” I think it is good for teenager’s parents to talk about sex. However; parents should not become friends with their kids; I believe that becoming a friend and being open are very different. They should have some boundaries between parents and their children. Because the more the parents become open with their kids when they have challenging problems, like pregnancies, more likely the kids are to come out and tell how they feel about it. Then the teenagers try to get help without any body’s pressuring them. For example; in the community they live in they could get some kind of help they more likely to attend, because they in their mind they know they have someone support their decisions. Also parents should not try to control their kids, because every time when parents try to control them the kids want to do mote bad things. For instant, they want to go out in the middle of the night without their parents knowing and the next thing the parents will know she is pregnant. Who is fault is this and who should we blame for this mess?
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First and foremost I am a parent. I think I also have a friendship with my children. As your children get older the only way I feel you need to have both relationships with them. They need to know who the adult is in the family, but they aslo ned to be able to confide things in you. How can that happen unless you have that friendship. It takes time to develop and a friendship with you children is also a great way to build trust. If it was my teenage child who was pregnant or had gotten someone pregnant I pray they would be able to come to me and we could work through it and support each other, together as family.
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