tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-265390462606354733.post3399588142976265100..comments2023-08-03T08:07:59.258-05:00Comments on Inside the Mind of Lauren Murphy: Hiding Sex from the Kiddies (I am just full of touchy posts aren’t I?)Lauren Murphyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12153107734632854508noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-265390462606354733.post-31907933865095906032011-07-03T12:17:05.716-05:002011-07-03T12:17:05.716-05:00I agree that there aren't enough conversations...I agree that there aren't enough conversations all around. I also believe that young girls that have babies for attention have issues with self worth (among other things) and really, my original post doesn't begin to cover it. But it's a good topic for another day. However, I can't say I completely agree with the idea that every extremely young girl that has a baby did it for attention. Some are just sadly uninformed or misinformed (I knew one personally). I remember (may have been a while ago now) there was a time when young people were catching STDs from having oral sex, and then clueless about how they caught a disease. For some reason they were under the impression that since it wasn't vaginal intercourse, thus not "real" sex, they shouldn't be able to catch anything by performing the acts unprotected. Frankly, this just scares the hell out of me. <br /><br />Also, to me, those young people that do these acts strictly for attention have other issues, but I believe even those people could possibly be helped if they understood more about the acts and the consequences of those acts. If most of those young girls knew what a pregnancy would actually be like, what it would do to their bodies, and then had some idea of what the reality of having a real live baby would be like, I'm not sure some of them would be so reckless. Perhaps providing young people with better, clearer information may not help all of them, but there is a chance it could help a lot of them. Just my opinion of course. <br /><br />Excellent points Charlotte, thanks for commenting!Lauren Murphyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12153107734632854508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-265390462606354733.post-3093311503933854262011-07-03T07:15:30.242-05:002011-07-03T07:15:30.242-05:00I subscribe to the middle of the road myself (but ...I subscribe to the middle of the road myself (but as a kindergarten teaching in a Muslim country, it doesn't really come up.) However, your comment about 13 year olds having babies caught my attention. In my experience (having taught high school and middle school in the US) most girls who are having kids at that age aren't doing it because they didn't know what they were getting into, but because they did know and knew it would get them a lot of attention. These girls are attention starved so the first boy who gives them any gets anything thing he wants. Then when she realizes she's pregnant she gets even more attention, from upset parents and teachers, from (envious?) school friends and from total strangers who are horrified. For kids who are attention starved good attention and bad attention are the same. So I don't think it's so much a matter of having "the conversation" as not having enough conversations all around.Christa Mauricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09885531885429532943noreply@blogger.com