Defenders say they aren't worried about the already TEEN PARENTS, they are worried about the WOULD BE TEEN PARENTS...their thinking is the end justifies the means. If it's gonna make teenagers think twice about sex, then bring it on.
ARGUMENT AGAINST AD - The latest ad campaign creates stigma, hostility and negative public opinions about teen pregnancy and parenthood rather than offering alternative aspirations for young people,?
ARGUMENT FOR AD - This campaign makes very clear to young people that there?s a lot at stake when it comes to deciding to raise a child,?
What do you guys think?
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After seeing those ads, i'll have to think twice.
. These kids have too much freedom. The more teenagers having kids, the more the trend will continue. Like these dumbos:
17 pregnancies at US school after girls make baby pact? Half of expectant pupils had planned parenthood
? Revelation prompts review of sex educationA small fishing town in Massachusetts is coming to terms with the news that 17 teenage girls at the local high school are pregnant, almost half of them having entered a pact to have babies and raise the children collectively.
Officials in Gloucester have discovered that the extraordinarily high number of pregnancies among the school's 15- and 16-year-olds - four or five times the average annual number - is not a coincidence. The revelation of a pact among up to eight of the girls has prompted heated debate locally about the approach to sex education and contraception.
Teachers at the 1,200-student Gloucester high school first noticed something strange last October when several girls began visiting the school health clinic to request pregnancy tests.
By March the number of pregnant girls in the school had risen to 10 and officials were alarmed. By May, the health clinic reported that an unusual number of girls were still asking for pregnancy tests.
The head, Joseph Sullivan, told Time magazine that some of the girls seemed upset when they received negative results. Others reacted to positive test results with high fives, talking about how they would hold a celebration for the baby.
Christopher Farmer, the school superintendent, said inquiries were started when the number reached 10. "They are young white women. We understand that some of them were together talking about being pregnant and that being a positive thing for them," he told Associated Press.
The disclosure of the pact, and reports that one of the fathers is a 24-year-old homeless man, has sparked a spirited debate in Gloucester about teenage sex. In May the medical director and nurse at the school clinic resigned in protest at the refusal of the local hospital that controls their funds to allow them to distribute contraceptives to pupils without parental consent.
The hospital authorities made it clear they were anxious about the reaction to handing out contraception from the strongly Catholic local community. In the absence of provision by the clinic, students must travel 20 miles to the nearest women's health clinic .
The state of Massachusetts has also been cutting back on sex education in schools as part of its budgetary belt-tightening. A local provider of reproductive health education has slashed its outreach staff from eight to one full-time worker.
Experts in teenage intimate behaviour were baffled by the events in Gloucester, which are unprecedented. "The pact is quite shocking. This is the first time I've heard of anything like it," said David Landry of the Guttmacher Institute, which promotes reproductive health.
Gloucester's conundrum falls at an already anxious time for teenage pregnancies in America. Nationally, records showed a steady decline in teenage birth rates from 1991 to 2005, with most of the fall due to greater use of contraception.
But in 2006 birth rates for girls aged 15 to 17 rose by 3%. It is too early to know whether this is the start of a trend.
Landry said that underlying statistics showed that improvements in reproductive health - particularly the use of condoms - achieved through the 1990s had stagnated since around 2003. Though it is impossible to say why the tailing off has happened, he pointed to the Bush administration's $1bn programme to promote abstinence rather than contraception.
"The problem with the policy is that it says nothing to those teenagers who do Be Intimate," he said.
In Gloucester, a town of 30,000, speculation around the girls' motives has focused on the media. Commentators have pointed to films portraying pregnancy in a humorous and empathetic light such as Juno and Knocked Up.
? This article was amended on 16 November 2011. The original said "teenage pregnancy" is portrayed in films such as Knocked Up. This has been corrected.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/21/usa
Sisi_Kill:Oh my God! I heard about that nasty pact. . .what is wrong with these kids?
Do they think it's like having dolls?!!!
Babies are cute, and the state will pay for them. Why shouldn't they?
I bet a devilish child fantasized about it and made the followers get in on the pact.
You can imagine the confusion, and most parents will be too busy dealing with their own that to laugh at another kid.
The kid will say, afterall Jane is pregnant too
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I thought 18 was the cut off age
These must be European ADs.
baby_123:Babies are cute, and the state will pay for them. Why shouldn't they?
I bet a devilish child fantasized about it and made the followers get in on the pact.
You can imagine the confusion, and most parents will be too busy dealing with their own that to laugh at another kid.
The kid will say, afterall Jane is pregnant too
Don't they give them those assignments. ...With the dolls they take home and care for...for like 7 days or so anymore? Gosh I remember years ago my friend's sister got one I swear to God, I was ready to go get my tubes tied because the prospect of having a baby was just bleh.
What made it really weird was I grew up around babies what with my siblings, cousins, aunts and uncles popping them out like there was no tomorrow, so babies weren't new to me but I guess because this girl was closer to my age and we kinda hung out together we had to deal with her "baby".....Jeeedus! It was a pain!! She wanted to do stuff with us but she couldn't leave her doll because it had some kinda sensor that registered something or the other at school.
This yeye doll would just start crying for no damn reason....if it were a real baby, you could at least do human stuff to calm it down, not this doll oh. It kept it going and going and going....suffice to say, it wasn't a pleasant experience and if I, who wasn't really in charge of the doll, could be that turned off....one can only impact it will have on the teenagers.
I hope they haven't stopped and if they have they should reinstate it abeg.
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HELLPP! school baby project is driving me nuts!?ok i got the little baby doll for school project 2 days ago. it cries like every 5 seconds. I didn't get any sleep yesterday. i can't go out in public with a baby doll unless i want people to think i'm crazy, i tried wrapping it in a blanket and they think it's a real baby and look at me weird.
it's the ugliest baby doll i've ever seen and i don't even get a male parter or something. i have school, a part time job and a rabbit to feed and help give her time to run. i still have a week until i give the doll back. i need help! one becus its driving me insane and another cus i'm going to fail for sure!!
Seriously they need to implement this in all high schools, it carries more weight than any AD.
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The message is finely relayed. Those captions are Epic
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When i was a teen i used to think of what was ahead of me and i was very much aware of how emotionally and financially expensive it is to raise a child plus i was so conscious of my curvy look and flat tummy that i didnt want to loose it so soon,more so i had fantasies of fairy tale weddings,bridal shower,baby shower and being a graduate so all those dreams made me loose interest for sex,i only hanged out with boys that were intrested in books and not sex then,thank God it payed off,at least i have achieved quarter of my dreams but it beats me the way teens of this generation think,they are so loose and place so much priority on sex and parties than their future infact i remember when i was a corper some 5 years back,i was in a tailors shop waiting for her to finish up with my clothes and i was shocked to my bones when some secondary school girls between 12-15 were openly discussing and arguing at the top of their voices about the Indecency movie they watches and this little girls were arguing about how their boyfriends can have s3x with them like the man in the Indecency movie,the other girl said her boyfriends d1ck is bigger than her friends boyfriends own and all those kind of stewpeed jist,that was when i knew that teen pregnancy will be increasing and its not even an embarassment,i doubt whether it can be curbed or reduced even with all the s3x education this kids have acess to
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Mum nigeria will soon become 200million because ure so wet
This is the killer! Got to think thrice!
Free crib, free cash, free healthcare, free dental, free education, free cash, free cash, and of course free cash...
As a girl, your own na to dey jolly dey go, Iya Charlie go pay....
NB: if your passport is NOT red, please disregard this message, it is not for your type o!
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What is harsh is raising kids as a single parent.
Beautiful . . . But some Teenage parents could use this as a tool to make them wanna succeed as well, it is all about WILL POWER and determination
Even if the issue of teenage parenthood is a universal one, d ads in question are more american than Nigerian.
Since the forum is nairaland not dollarland, why don't u post naija ads on d subject for a more robust and constructive discourse?
The ADs are so on point if you ask me, nothing harsh about it at all.
Kx: Even if the issue of teenage parenthood is a universal one, d ads in question are more american than Nigerian.Hehehehehehehe. . .as my little niece would say, you made a funny.
Since the forum is nairaland not dollarland, why don't u post naija ads on d subject for a more robust and constructive discourse?
. On one hand you agree that the issue of teenage pregnancy is universal and then go on to say the ad aren't robust enough for constructive discourse. Except you can show us Teenage parents in Naija swim in bucket load of money, their partners in crime stick with them to the very end, their kids aren't somewhat affected by their parents teen status when they were born. ..in short show us evidence that the Nigerian Teenage parent experiences something opposite to what those ads depict then and only then can we conclude the ads are robust enough for constructive discourse.
Or is it the perfect English they are written in that turns you off? Would you rather they were written in pidgin and the kids used be. . . Nigerians? Would that make it better to deal with since by your admission the issue of teenager pregnancy IS universal therefore the message being passed is also universal.
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Dad are u saying. U had me because u could not be patient enough to get a condom so u used pure water leather?
Still thinking about it...
Ejin?: 12rd to comment...hopeless fellow.
Who made dis Ads? Xpecially dis one ''dad, you'll b payin to support me for d nxt 20yrs'' na who talks so?
There needs to be more education and conversation about the issue. Ignoring it won't help. There are too many lives at stake.
Its gotten so bad over here that the government has contemplated severally whether to start handing out condoms in primary schools? Can you imagine? That's how bad it is and its tax payers money they are using to fund all this useless sex education, which indirectly teaches kids indecency...
I remember vividly the last year of primary school all the students have to watch grown adults Being Intimate as part of their sex education, will this not make it worse, and make them want to explore it even more? The government over here are totally useless and its encouraged through the media all the time..
Infact the ad's are too lenient for my liking, over here its a "fashion" statement to have a child as young as 16. More needs to be done to enlighten the youth...
Fhemmmy: Beautiful . . . But some Teenage parents could use this as a tool to make them wanna succeed as well, it is all about WILL POWER and determination
That's just wishful thinking.
Chances are that people who acted foolishly in the first instance will hardly see these adverts as inspiration for success.
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