Actually to be fair, parents can’t deal with everything. This is Singapore.. most parents work. Some go to work early and come back only at night. By the time they come home, they are exhausted and they will have no mood to entertain their bratty, rude teenagers. They can’t keep up. I KNOW they can’t keep up. I have a 14 year old cousin.. there is not a day goes by that I don’t think of strangling her. Oh well, enter our government.

These kids spend most of their time in schools. So if the parents are not there, schools gotta come up with programs to instill morals and good behavior. Man, if I have my way, kids would spend A LOT of time in schools. No, not to barrage them with non-beneficial knowledge.. I would barrage them with positive activities. From creating projects, sports to visiting old folks home and orphanages to religious studies.

Result of too much porn and too much free time.

1) The cause of youth today having sex is because of mainly the easy access to Pornography on the internet.
2) Chat programs further complicate things. Youth are comfortable chatting at the privacy of their own home but with porn and hormones raging and without restriction, the tendency for them to meet up and bonk is high.

If you agree with this statement, please nod and send a "pat on the back" type of email:). If you don’t or I have missed out on something, please email me. I need to know your point of view.

In order to combat this Youth Bonking problem, I suggest
1) ISPs must block all offending material from minors. How? Have an internet filter compulsory if you have a teenager using in the PC household. If an adult wants access to porn but share the same PC, have an adult sign on the dotted line to bear the responsibility if the minor is actually caught watching porn.

2) The MSN chat thing is hard to regulate. But to me its one of the core problems because MOST of the youths today are in front of the PC doing nothing productive because of this. Even if we have a chat timer that switches off after say 2 hours of chat, kids nowadays are able to get around it eventually. So...

Assuming that the education system had gone through a MAJOR OVERHAUL eg. No more unnecessary subjects with no basis, a better discipline management system and quality visual aids that is prepared thoroughly from the MOE for teachers to download. Then my suggestion is to have longer school hours- Keep them busy with positive activities instead of them loitering at voiddecks or chatting online in the afternoon.

Do they think that they are ‘mature’ enough for all this? I don’t think they are. If they are, don’t you think they would be strong enough to hold their urges?

We are not animals. We are all human. We’re able to think and able to stay morally and ethically strong to keep the urges within. Those differentiate us from animals. Always keep in mind, if anything goes out of plan, like pregnancies, or even STDs should happened, it is not your pride that is at stake, it is also your families’!

Do you know that many underage pregnant girls got admitted in the hospital, with both their weeping parents by their side? WHERE THE HELL WAS THE “FATHER OF THE CHILD’!

And yes I agree with EB that we should get our ISP to filter those sites. Viruses should be released to our computer systems to wipe out MSN. Muahahaha! (I quit msn-ing lately, but turn to skype, hehe!). We are just to exposed to these ‘openness’. I was surprised that EB only know about the ‘F’ word at quite a later age. Imagine what will a 7 year old know by the year 2017?!?!

Just a quick reminder to my younger friends, especially to the young ladies. When you commit yourself to ‘making love’, do not hurt yourself nor the people who loves you most (parents and family). In the end, the choice is yours!

Treasure yourself, treasure your family, and don’t start your own too soon!

through religion. If you are spiritually strong, by God's will, you will know what is right, and what is wrong. Once differentiation is made, you will then will be opened up to 2 choices

a) go ahead and do what's wrong or

b ) retreat and reassess and know that God is watching you, thus totally wiping out the root of the problem.

cases as such ie. unwanted teenage pregnancy etc, + my exact thoughts were like you - at 9 I was living like a 9-y.o should - playing like there's no tomorrow. + having gone through pregnancy + birth for 4 times now, masya-Allah, I just couldn't imagine what the girl would've gone through.

So I totally agree with the measures to be taken into account - 1st + foremost must be religion, + the best teachers are the parents, starting from themselves when they start the family by choosing each other. Of course in today's world where both parents are working + kids have to get their formal education at schools anyway, teachers + peers play a much bigger role.

Which is why the education system itself must be good enough to include such topics but must be thoroughly thought out before executed (you can insert your whole article on education here :-)). + also, of course in today's small world media brought about by such technologies as internet piques on the curious teenage minds - here in Qatar the internet provider here blocks porn-related sites, which I think is a great help to ease my mind a bit about my kids when they'll surf the net - not that they're into internet or even computers just yet.
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Why should religion play such a big part in a country supposedly non-religious. I mean just take a look at some of the current policies and you will see religious leaders bearing lots of influence (e.g. criminalising homosexuality). This just doesn't make sense in a secular state. In fact what I propose is to totally separate religion and government.

So religion should never play a part in schools or politics.

But the million dollar question is: If they can have religious studies then, please somebody, I'm rolling in tears on the floor while I'm typing this... WHY can't we have religious studies NOW? Using the secular card does not count cause my sister was from a secular school. So why the policy change?

And there's alot of things you can actually learn from Religion. Secular government are just a group of "intellectuals" who think they know better. Religion have scriptures from way back and some of its practices have been proven to curb some of the problems we have today.

I feel it will take them many years to realize that religion does help curb teenage bonking.

Another part that is the problem is our society is getting lazy in child discipline….they don’t communicate well about teenage sex (I am not talking about those cross-sectional shit). And their religious belief is depleting.

They should talk openly about sex, even religion strongly advice to do this…. (Using religious ways to speak to teenagers)

All in all, I believe that parents play a strong role in teenage sex apart from the government. No such thing as being exhausted from preventing your kids producing kids.

Islamophobes rear their ugly heads and this "secular" word being popularised in government schools.

I don't and never liked a one word excuse.. Before, it's "Generalisation". Now they use the "Secular" card. It's like playing catching and when you nearly tag the guy, he quickly sit down and said "Twist". That was actually the magic word we would use. It's stupid then and it's still stupid now. But I agree with what you say.... Sigh... Oh well, if Parenst AND the Government don't tackle this eroding morals in our youths.. then we just have to be prepared for more abortions, younger couples having sex, perhaps the birth of local pornstars, increase of AIDS, increase cases of STDs, more abandoned old folks, more crime, more suicides, more shit... Everybody.. brace yourselves!