Before it looks like I’m speculating about the obvious, there
are some things that just eat me up when I see them.
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I wanted to buy pap at a local’s house one of these days,
and the pap seller’s daughter who packaged what I’d be buying seemed to be at
least six months gone and she was obviously a teenager, it also seemed like she
had stopped school telling by the time of the day and the period it was in the
school calender. I couldn’t help but imagine the event that could have followed
after she was found out. The heart break, interrogation, anathematization if
any at all, and resolution. I wasn’t bothered that they seemed to be at peace
with her condition now, at least one’s child can’t be so troublesome to the
extent of offering the child to lions for lunch. But I was bothered if they saw
any of the problems that caused her getting pregnant and wanted to do something
about it or let it pass.
Just like we have seen or heard about classmates of our
elder ones that got pregnant and left school, friends of friends that got an
abortion, our own classmates that got pregnant too, there’s one I’m not sure if
she had an abortion or had the baby. And we have been shocked by the realities,
gossiped about them and felt untouchable by such circumstances.
The first time I was inspired to take a stand concerning
teenage pregnancy was just about this time eight years ago. And finally taking
vivid steps towards it now, I got talking with someone and he asked if the
people that this societal ill affected the most saw it as a problem? I had
thought about that before then I had to think about it again and to be sure,
I need
objective views. You may have seen instances of complacency, disdain or pain
with respect to the subject, or it may have affected you one way or the other.
So let’s do some role playing here. What would you do as a
parent if your teen got pregnant or impregnated another?
Do the people most affected (i.e pregnant teenagers, the
impregnator, friends and family of the former) by teenage pregnancy think it is
a problem? Or am I in another world seeing problems where there are none?
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