Comments on: Baby Boom….oh oh http://jennypruna.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/baby-boomoh-oh/ Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:14:12 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: suranga http://jennypruna.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/baby-boomoh-oh/#comment-69 suranga Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:10:33 +0000 http://jennypruna.wordpress.com/?p=63#comment-69 Just came across your blog. We have been reading about the Republican Vice Presidential candidate, and policy matters apart, while I admire her resolve and guts to go ahead , deliver and take care of her Downs syndrome affected 6th child, I am absolutely aghast that her 17 year old daughter is pregnant, and the parents were simply not bothered about what was happening. If they cannot spare the time to teach their kids how to be responsible, they simply need to prioritize their stuff better. Vice Presidency will give you a great 4 -8 years, but you've messed up your child for life. I blog from Mumbai, India, and although globalization has hit us, we still wonder about how the mother can stand up in a convention and treat the whole thing as a show of family values..... Just came across your blog. We have been reading about the Republican Vice Presidential candidate, and policy matters apart, while I admire her resolve and guts to go ahead , deliver and take care of her Downs syndrome affected 6th child, I am absolutely aghast that her 17 year old daughter is pregnant, and the parents were simply not bothered about what was happening. If they cannot spare the time to teach their kids how to be responsible, they simply need to prioritize their stuff better. Vice Presidency will give you a great 4 -8 years, but you’ve messed up your child for life.

I blog from Mumbai, India, and although globalization has hit us, we still wonder about how the mother can stand up in a convention and treat the whole thing as a show of family values…..

]]> By: chencenter http://jennypruna.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/baby-boomoh-oh/#comment-67 chencenter Mon, 18 Aug 2008 05:11:06 +0000 http://jennypruna.wordpress.com/?p=63#comment-67 don't be talkin' trash about Juno, I love that movie! I don't know that girls are having babies b/c they wanna relate to the main character... i just don't believe that. But in a time when it's casual to say, "i wanna have his babies" as a reference to liking someone... i can see where younger kids can get the wrong idea. But chalk it up to television and media that feed images of what girls should look like, how they should act like, show what gets you attention, fame, money, love, etc. It's maddening, all of it. But although i don't know if i agree with all of paragraph one... I do agree with paragraph two. Kids do want to grow up too fast and they take on things that they are not ready for... but we should blame ourselves a little... and parents need to recognize that they can still sit down and talk to their kids about these things. Big topic.... you could write a whole new blog around this. don’t be talkin’ trash about Juno, I love that movie! I don’t know that girls are having babies b/c they wanna relate to the main character… i just don’t believe that. But in a time when it’s casual to say, “i wanna have his babies” as a reference to liking someone… i can see where younger kids can get the wrong idea. But chalk it up to television and media that feed images of what girls should look like, how they should act like, show what gets you attention, fame, money, love, etc. It’s maddening, all of it. But although i don’t know if i agree with all of paragraph one… I do agree with paragraph two. Kids do want to grow up too fast and they take on things that they are not ready for… but we should blame ourselves a little… and parents need to recognize that they can still sit down and talk to their kids about these things. Big topic…. you could write a whole new blog around this.

]]> By: daisybug http://jennypruna.wordpress.com/2008/07/08/baby-boomoh-oh/#comment-65 daisybug Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:47:41 +0000 http://jennypruna.wordpress.com/?p=63#comment-65 I believe that teenage pregnancy (excepting that as resultant from rape) is a symptom of something gone wrong in the family. Girls with little or no self respect are more likely to get pregnant at an early age. This can come from a lack of attention, lack of proper boundaries, lack of supervision, lack of involvement in their lives from especially their fathers and even some kind of assault or abuse sexual or otherwise - even verbal. You can't blame it on games or baby dolls. There is nothing new there. Girls have been socialized to nurture babies forever - it is nearly universal. (One tribe in, if memory serves me correctly, New Guinea encourages boys to be more nurturing than girls). These girls are at risk because their families have let them down in one way or another. Having sex - even having a baby suddenly gives them something and/or someone to be a part of... I believe that teenage pregnancy (excepting that as resultant from rape) is a symptom of something gone wrong in the family. Girls with little or no self respect are more likely to get pregnant at an early age. This can come from a lack of attention, lack of proper boundaries, lack of supervision, lack of involvement in their lives from especially their fathers and even some kind of assault or abuse sexual or otherwise – even verbal. You can’t blame it on games or baby dolls. There is nothing new there. Girls have been socialized to nurture babies forever – it is nearly universal. (One tribe in, if memory serves me correctly, New Guinea encourages boys to be more nurturing than girls).

These girls are at risk because their families have let them down in one way or another. Having sex – even having a baby suddenly gives them something and/or someone to be a part of…

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