EL school winning baby battle…

Do you know who I blame? I blame the Dept of Housing. They give to the poor RDP houses. Good, yes they provide housing, but what really? They provide a 1 bedroom house with lounge-kitchen, bathroom. Some of these houses like the ones in Pefferville have but only 1 big room divided by furniture or curtains. Furniture goes in the lounge section couches etc. What happens in the room? Mummy and Daddy on the bed and kids on the floor. They see when parents engage in sexual activity and before you know it when they reach puberty and the feeling comes they just follow. Why was the old apartheid system of council houses abolished? That provided decent housing to all. Most houses were three bedrooms, they were then built with ash bricks a cheaper alternative to bricks, today we have M6 blocks which they use in any case. Why not revert back to the old system? Instead of giving junk to the people because the Dept of Housing want to brag about how many houses they’ve dished out to people, rather give something decent to people that will encourage morals and common decency. If you think back to the past when this system was running teenage pregnancies were still a shame, today its like blowing your nose, common.
Besides what do the fat cats at the top think of the housing system? Would they have their kids sleeping in the room with them every single night? They are the people who have the HUGE houses with 6 or more bedrooms, not just a room for the girls and a room for the boys, but each child has their own HUGE room.

Change has to begin somewhere, start at housing. Another thing that should be changed is the child grant. Why not give that money to families that are struggling, families that earn less than R2000 a month to make ends meet instead of giving it to KIDS that waste it. There’s a woman walking around in the Amalinda area constantly begging for food and money. She walks around with her two kids, but always smells like alcohol. You feel sorry for the kids so you give her food. Turn your back and she steals the food from the kids. Come grant day she is as drunk as a lord. Is this what the Dept of social services stands for?

The problem here is: how do young people handle the emerging primitive sexual drives in their lives? How do they convert this energy into acceptable social and cultural behaviour ? Everyone needs to be involved to avoid a train crash …the community, parents, school, and the young people themselves. It requires a balanced combination of personal ideals, practical information, one very strict prohibition and a few mild *** practises that won’t harm anybody in moderation. The bottom line is: NO Penetration ! This is 100% safe and in this way you can throw away those unreliable and revolting condoms. This lighter N P approach will lead to more refined and considerate *** than the boom, bang, bash type that results in unwanted pregnancy.

Parents are not doing enough to ensure that their children are well educated about the consequences of pregnancy. We as parents need not to only educate girls, boys too need to be educated.

Of course, one has to appreciate that some girls fall preggies because they want the grant money. But if this is true they are so so dumb. I feel sorry for those babies.

Well done Mr Chetty for putting the responsibiltiy where it belongs. As long as the State removes personal responsibility (grants, subsidies, condoms, *** education, etc, etc) there is no reason for individuals to take responsibilty for their own lives. Life is easy without consequences. Well, for a while anyway. How many times have we heard the cry for the State to pay for or provide for a personal shortcoming? The caualities are the babies, who become state dependants through more grants, etc. We’re with you Mr Chetty.

Shame, I actually feel sorry for this principal. Not only is he trying his best to reduce teen pregnancy but now government is actually increasing the child grant even more. Teenagers don’t have a concept of money and see all these new jeans and shoes and the only way they can get them is to start breeding like rabbits, not realizing that these babies also need real food and clothes. I think it’s time for this government to wake up, stop these grants, reduce the population so that the resources that are available can keep up with demand.

We definetely dont do enough,not only in schools but also in the work place. More parents need to be involved in their young adults lives, these kids have no clue what they are letting themselves in for by being sexually active at such a young age. Besides the added responsibility of looking after a kid there is also the risk of diseases as these men they get involved with go from woman to woman.We are living in a very dangerous time. Open up your eyes people, our kids need our guidance as parents,it is no longer the schools responsibility to educate on this sensitive matter.

No we dont. It is a sad reflection on our society as we stand today. I have no answers, but I constantly mull over the problem when I see these pregnant teenagers.

Its not that I believe in ‘punishment and reward’ per se, but there is something lacking in the times as they are now………I guess its the lack of supervision as well, more parents are at work all day, peer pressure?

Teachers are hardly an example, as we have read ………eish.