Today, I am going to post on the article ‘Growing Up Too Soon’ that is extracted from the section “IN’ of The Straits Time. The article is most likely a Idea-Driven Story. It is about teenage are having sex before they are 16. Latest police figures also show that 310 girls below the age of 16 were caught having sex last year and nearly 45 percent more than the year before.
After reading the first paragraph, I was totally shocked and panic. I wondered why there is so many teenagers having sex below 16 years old. 310 girls. Its 310 girls! Its not a small sum of people. It is equivalent to about four fifth of the secondary 1 in my sch (Hwa Chong Institution). It is really unbelievable. The number of girls having sex under-aged was shocking to me.
Teenagers nowadays are getting even more daring. Having sex under-aged is a serious offence. Male offender can be jailed for up to a maximum of 20 years, and fined or canned. Girls aged 12 to 14 will be considered as statutory but for girls under the age of 12 are investigated as rape.
From a 13 year old young teenager’s view like me, I really don’t understand why the teenagers still want to carry out under-aged sex even though it is an offence. I agree that some might not know the consequences of having sex under-aged. Thus they made a wrong move and carry out sex. But to those who knows, but why? To me, I think that because they tend to get too curious about what is sex all about and wanted to try it out despite the serious punishment that will be meted out if they were to get caught. This is really too complicated for a young teenager like me to understand thoroughly.
By the way, here are some precautions that parents and school that I suggest could take to prevent their child or students to have sex under-aged. Firstly, school can have more talks on ‘sex’ that enriches the teenager’s mind on sex. This will let them know the consequences and be responsible for their acts if they really were to have sex. Secondly parents should always check if his or her children has a girlfriend or boyfriend and make sure that they aren’t going out with their partners without other friends. This will ensures that the teenager’s mind run wild and do something wrong and rash as their friends are around to remind them the consequences.
In conclusion, I think having under-aged sex in strongly not encourage. One should not have sex under-aged no matter how urgent, how curious they are. Remember, one should be responsible for his or her act. No one is able to help you if you make a wrong step.
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