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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/talking_point/3710505.stm
Following this debate has been quite interesting today.
Tis a very gray subject but I would want to know if this happened to my underage daughter (assuming I breed, which I don't intend to). To be honest, if I have a child, I have no interest in being that child's best friend. I'm their mother and thats the role I want. I get that a child doesn't necessarily feel that they can confide in a parent and that doesn't mean the relationship is shit.
I have a wonderful relationship with my family (lol most of the time) but at 14 I wasn't miss sunshine, tell my mother everything thats going on in my life. Had I got pregnant, hell yea I'd be terrified to have told and probably did what this girl did out of fear, fear of having been a dissapointment cause when I was 14 I sincerely believed that anything that went wrong was my fault. If that had happenend to me, I'd only hope that someone would have had the sense to involve my parent in the decision making talks.
If the state holds someone legally responsible for the wellbeing of someone then the state should at least afford them the ability to have all the facts and be fully involved with what goes on in that person's life.
Maybe the state should just piss off altogether, the have increasingly more and more say in our day to day lives and it is getting a little bit tiring.
Sorry for the rant - but I feel very relaxed now :) That was nice!
Following this debate has been quite interesting today.
Tis a very gray subject but I would want to know if this happened to my underage daughter (assuming I breed, which I don't intend to). To be honest, if I have a child, I have no interest in being that child's best friend. I'm their mother and thats the role I want. I get that a child doesn't necessarily feel that they can confide in a parent and that doesn't mean the relationship is shit.
I have a wonderful relationship with my family (lol most of the time) but at 14 I wasn't miss sunshine, tell my mother everything thats going on in my life. Had I got pregnant, hell yea I'd be terrified to have told and probably did what this girl did out of fear, fear of having been a dissapointment cause when I was 14 I sincerely believed that anything that went wrong was my fault. If that had happenend to me, I'd only hope that someone would have had the sense to involve my parent in the decision making talks.
If the state holds someone legally responsible for the wellbeing of someone then the state should at least afford them the ability to have all the facts and be fully involved with what goes on in that person's life.
Maybe the state should just piss off altogether, the have increasingly more and more say in our day to day lives and it is getting a little bit tiring.
Sorry for the rant - but I feel very relaxed now :) That was nice!