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A cursory 'stoat-examination' of Bliss Magazine suggests that the entire function of the mag (aside from advertising) is to push young girls into having sex by making them feel 'uncool' and left out of their 'hip' social group if they don't. So, I suppose that they are happy in knowing that their marketing is apparently working. It's just terribly sad that entire generations will lose their innocence and have innumerable additional troubles as a result of such trends.
By posting this I don't mean to suggest that statistics in the USA would be any different....no intention is made here to slam our British Friends. If an American teen mag (or, preferably, a more reliable source) were to publish results of an American survey I would want to post that also.
I thought it was against the law or something for 14-year-old girls to be getting regularly (or even occasionally) bonked, almost surely by older males who consider them to be mere conquests. At that age a LOT of things are wrong with intercourse, not the least of which it is outside marriage.
A century ago, girls that age were already married, setting up households and making babies. It was assumed they could handle the details of domesticity. Today, they can scarcely handle the details of a reading assignment.
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Any further elaboration would raise the level of heat without any corresponding increase in light.
I often wonder why posts like this one ever show up at FR.
This is so ignorant and idiotic I don't know where to start.
My wife's parents were married by arrangement (she grew up outside the states) and were formally married at ages 12 and 14 (dad and mom, respectively). Kids followed soon thereafter. This was par for the course in society. Their marriage lasted until my mother-in-law died recently in her late seventies--in spite of enormous upheavals in their lives. And no, they weren't religious. Note that--up until the mid-nineteen hundreds, this was THE NORM for billions of people.
So what the hell do people expect nowadays? Biology is what it is, and at least most societies recognized and accommodated that fact for centuries. Now, I am all in favor of delaying marriage for a host of reasons in modern societies like ours--but duh, what the heck do you expect young kids to do? I don't care how much society does or does not preach, or what parent's expectations are--and I'm the father of a 5 year old girl. I know that when the time comes it will be a struggle for her, no matter what my wife and I do to educate her.
Blaming it on 'the media' is retarded. Hormones will find a way in spite of whatever anyone does. That doesn't mean I don't intend to protect and educate my daughter to the utmost, but it's moronic to wring our hands like this pretending we don't know who to blame.
Ugh. Sure, I wish some fairy-tale past of sweet innocence were possible, but puh-lease. Get real.
The pill taught them that there are no consequences.
Abortion ensured that.
Those 2 items also stressed marriage and made divorce the norm.
Now, Mom & Dad are out dating and boinking, so how do they tell the kids not to.
Additionally, nobody is home to parent the kids.
Add the cultural tsuami of sex and what do you expect?