HONESTLY THIS IS AN INSULT!!!
At this time and age, I consider getting pregnant at a tender age ignorance. Actually I take it as being irresponsible. With incredible access to contraception and safe-sex practice, I genuinely do not understand it.
Is it peer-pressure or the fear of a sexual partner that causes girls not to use protection? Is it the fear of parents or nurse that girls do not take contraception? Is it the fear of judgement from the community, including the church that safe-sex is not practised? Or it is out of naivety that YOU people still think that these things cannot happen to YOU? I speak to girls because they are the most vulnerable.
I know I am Christian; I am supposed to advocate celibacy but our brothers and sisters are dying out there because we naively think that they will be like us, celibate. Certainly they can be but for some reason they are not (clearly) and we can offer them them help by advising them on THEIR level of understanding, instead of only blindly praying for them. After all, it us who become early uncles, early grandmothers and early mourners for our siblings, children and loved-ones.
HIV/AIDS is not a fable but a reality and teenage pregnancy is a threat to family life and the future of this country.
Ironically, the people who impregnate (or get pregnant), they themselves come from broken families; often raised by a single parent and are poor yet they do not consider the strain that having a child will have on them and their family. These children (born out of teenage pregnancy) often have lives full of sorrow and rage towards their parents. And the parents themselves often miss out on opportunities.
Wake up Mzantsi and understand that once you have a child your priorities change and certainly your future prospects adjust. Be responsible for your life, your future and your family's well-being. Wise up and use protection and contraception there's no shame in doing so; it's for your own good.
#ConcernedBrother
SNLV kaJolinkomo
(8 November 2013)
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