I don't want anyone to take this the wrong way or interpret it in a bigot fashion, yet look at the kid. I'm not pointing fingers on the lower classes, yet his haircut and the look on his face denote everything I needed to know about a 13 year old parent. If I were the authorities, I would have terminated the pregnancy and made the sure tge couple "payed" for their "crime".
Christ, 13 year old father. I remember watching a clip of a stupid American teenager (around 15/16), saying that all her baby will need will be 3 pacifiers that she owns. Looks like this way of reasoning is apearing also on the Continent.
As far as the educational system should be concerned, 13 years is too young. I remember getting sex-ed classes at around 15/16 and although some of the classmates "knew" about this stuff, most of it was new to all of us. And this appears to be systemic. Again, I don't want to point fingers, yet I believe that working class children should be given a certain priority when it comes to education and an instilment of rationalistic and middle class values. The middle class has always invested into their children's education and make sure they are mostly well behaved. Seeing how the working class barely makes ends-met, education of such sensitive groups should be given special attention by the State, otherwise we might be seeing more of it in the future. And this is just a symptom, one out of many, and quite frankly, it scares me.
Oh, did I mention stricter parenting control and a hora legalis (police hour) and greater control over alcohol? You might call it "State interference", yet if this continues to rise along with other problems with teenagers, I don't see any other way. Education is a sure answer, yet if the parents don't instil certain values of decency and self-control, children get quite easily taken over by the crowd and might see something as "worth doing".
Again, what the hell were their parents doing? I guess he didn't just do it in the school toilet or behind a dark alley?
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