Too Late to Abort

Too Late to Abort
Source: http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,4136,124000,00.html

I was appalled by the failure of sex education in Singapore, which is reputed to be watertight, with stringent censorship of any forms of media, insulating the young generation from any exposure of sexual themes.

Yet, such audacity still prevails.

Times have indeed changed. Kids in primary school are dating. It would have never been the case a generation ago.

As people try to assimilate into the Western culture that permeates our society, they are subconsciously influenced by the media that manipulates their malleable mindset.

The only reason for music videos being such a popular hit nowadays, featuring beguiling females with disproportionate attributes promiscuously-dressed that serve only as eye-candy to tantalize the taste buds of lustful lechers, is that sex sells, despite being a torture to the eardrums.

Another contributing factor would be the boundless, omni-potent Internet.

On this sea of information, everything, including pornography is readily available. Moreover, born in the Computer Age, kids nowadays, unlike us, are especially Net-savvy.

They are so vulnerable, constantly bombarded by subtle messages of ‘sex’ when they yet mature enough to soak up the fullisade. As such, parents, as guardians, are responsible in providing adequate guidance in ‘the birds and the bees’. This means restricting accessibility to sources with explicit sexual content and instilling progenies with the sombre ideas of love, one step at a time.

Sex is not just physical intercourse, but rather a emotional commitment to a lifelong partner – an idea not easily accepted by physically mature but mentally naïve youths. They must be taught to exercise self-control and not treat sex, which used to be a taboo topic, as a casual joke, otherwise, dire consequences follow.

It is a current trend the puberty is occurring at a younger age. Rumours attribute growth hormones present in our modern-day diet – fast-food as the cause for explaining the pregnancy at nine years of age.

Hence, it is necessary to introduce sexual education earlier before disaster strikes.

However, I find that early sexual education may not be completely beneficial. Conversely, it could have been the exposure from sexual education that sparked the curiosity of these adolescents to explore and experiment. Perhaps, we should review when the time is ripe for the revelation of truth.

I feel that parental guidance is the crucial important factor in preventing the catastrophe as it eliminates the prerequisite conditions by preventing exposure to sexual contents that are detrimental to their mental health.

Juvenile delinquents often develop with parental negligence. This leads me to question whether parents in Singapore have been fulfilling their duty in family education and spending adequate quality time with their kids, rather than dedicating themselves to the frantic rat race for money against time.

If this trend persists, the situation might exacerbate, leaving multitudes of homeless orphans abandoned in rubbish chutes in the near future – a bleak future.

I do sympathise the victims of this incident, for it would take a lifetime of counseling to overcome this widely-publicized incident.

Sometimes, ignorance is bliss for tender ages.

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