After the fact: California election, Prop 73

[Slim]

So how long before we start seeing this here? Pretty scary to me.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/liv...0&in_a_source=

[telkanuru]

Which do you find more disturbing, that 11-year-old girls are getting pregnancy tests without consent of their parents or that 11 year old girls are getting pregnant...

[ReverseLunge]

Well my daughter is pretty young and she has been having sex with her boyfriend for awhile now. My wife and I were so destroyed when we first found out. But after a serious sit down we came to some agreements. The point is you just can't regulate what the kids do. They will do it anyway. So now we have set up a special room for her and her boyfriend and we are providing contraception. We have also set up audio video so that we can monitor what they are doing so that it doesn't get out of hand or violent.

[Slim]

Which do you find more disturbing, that 11-year-old girls are getting pregnancy tests without consent of their parents or that 11 year old girls are getting pregnant...

I find them equally disturbing.

[JackOfHearts]

Well, this thread has been quiet for awhile, so I may as well throw in my two cents now.

First off, I hate the idea of abortions. I think it's wrong to end a human life. Granted some may argue that a fetus isn't a child, but it is my opinion that once it gets that far along, its too late to consider it otherwise. It may be neccesary at times in order to save the life of the mother, I'll recognise that. There may be other things to consider as well, though I'm against the general idea of abortions.

And I voted against prop 73. It just wouldn't make a difference, really. It would even make the situation even more dangerous for the girl, because if she really wanted to get an abortion without her parents notice, odds are she'd go for something extreme, like trying to end the pregnancy herself. I've seen it happen too many times to think otherwise. This really is just a symptom of our societies real problems. Should parents be notified? Sure. They should be notified. They should hear that their daughter has gotten pregnant and is considering an abortion. She should tell her parents. She should be able to confide in them. Granted she would most definetly feel worried and afraid, perhaps even ashamed. But odds are, if she has a close, trusting, and understanding relationship with her parents she'd be more willing to tell them voluntarily. If she didn't, then at least she'd be able to get professional help from a licensed and qualified doctor. You can try an control your kid as much as you can, but is that really good parenting? You monitor their calls, log their chats IMs and e-mails, but is that really effective? Its an arms race when it comes to kids and parental supervision. The more sophisticated ways you can find to spy, they more clever they become at circumventing it. It'd be better if you didn't have to, at least in my opinon.