Back to our previous discussion, I’d like to emphasize about society’s responsibilities.
Society is the manner or condition in which the members of a community live together for their mutual benefit. By extension, parents must cooperate with other parents in the society to solve teenage pregnancy. Today, both the parents in our society are working hard to earn more bucks and the result is while their house is being filled with precious items to show off , their most precious gift of God, is on the road to self destruction. While they are trying to fulfill their dreams and afford their children's dreams as well, our society often forget to ask their kid what he/she actually needs. While parents lose interest in parenting their children and the child misses out on love and affection, the two most needed things in a child's life. With no love and affection received from parents, the child goes wayward. It is, then, that your little angel tries to find someone of her own age and develops an emotional bond with the person. So, first step, society must conscious what the necessary for adolescent.
Rising number of teenage pregnancy is often quoted as an example, to prove that our society is going downhill. Young pregnant teens can be seen passing their time at food joints and hanging out with their friends, while being casual about their unplanned pregnancy. This may be essentially, because they are unaware of the huge responsibility that is on their way to get to them, where they will have to care for a child on their own. The world seems to go topsy-turvy, as mothers are yet kids and kids have become mothers. The irony of the situation is that while people blame younger generation for being so irresponsible, little attention is paid to the generation, who is parenting these teenagers and what they are doing to ensure their child’s safety and a secure future for her.
Society can get rid of teenage pregnancy by creating awareness among teenagers. It becomes the duty of every parent to advise their children on sex related issues. The next step to curtail teen pregnancy would be to encourage group activities. As a society, you should discourage early dating as well. It is also important for committee of the society to monitor the activities of their teens. Inculcating the right values, helping them to judge what is moral and immoral; the difference between good touch and bad touch and how to overcome peer pressure is what can solve this problem. Inability to address this problem of society will produce a generation of irresponsible adults who could ruin their lives with their own actions and consequently the lives of their loved ones.
Another step is society must incorporate a committee to help parents in overcome this problem. The committee can manage a program for the parents and children. Elements of such programs include :-
Realistic sex education.
An expanded network of preventive family planning services.
Teenage pregnancy counseling services.
Adequate prenatal, obstetric and pediatric care for teenage mothers and their children.
Educational, motivation and social services for adolescent .
Involve or engage your child in the society activities such as sports, dancing, painting, singing and so on. This way your kid would be too busy in his academic and extra society activities to think about other things.
Infuse in your child family traditions, ethics, values and principles. This way he/she would realize the do's and don'ts of their family ideals in the society.
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