is this what things are coming to?
So I've recently been thinking about the state of our world. Not the economy, but socially, especially when it comes to America's teenagers. So I caught up with a friend tonight whom I haven't seen for almost six months. It was good to catch up. We started talking about mutual friends and things that have been happening in their lives lately. The first thing I found out is that a mutual friend, who is my age, is getting married in June. I'm all for love and happiness, but I''m not really sure if you can really truly stay happy in a marriage at that age especially if it is to the first guy you have ever really been with meaning you don;t have anything to compare to. It also sounds like she may be regretting it some based on the fact that she didn't tell me about it when I talked to her over break. The second thing we talked about is another friend who recently had a baby. She is the last person I would think of to get pregnant. She has been a pretty religious person, but she has had her moments of going against religion. apparently she is in one of those times now. I knew she was pregnant, it just reminded me of the fact that we have the highest teen pregnancy rate ever right now. It depresses me that kids are so stupid and that there isn't sufficient sex education and birth control is so expensive nowadays. That also reminded me of how depressing the drinking/drugs rate is and how early it starts. I was recently talking to Copperfield's marketing person who has teenagers and she said that her 13 year old refused to go back to her new school in Petaluma because there were so many kids and there were multiple people who were pregnant (at 13!!). Argh, all this is just so depressing. I mean what is it coming to? In ten years are people going to be having babies and married at 10? I know in the 18 and early 1900's girls married young, but times have changed since then and so have traditions.