Teen Pregnancies in Thailand

[lovethai123]

Hi!

 

I have met many girls in bars/massage shops  who got pregnant in their teens from their "thai husband".

 

I want to know if there has been any effort by social organisations/ NGO's to bring awareness in general masses about this menace.

 

I have seen how they campaign against foreigners on Thai social media.

 

Anyone ever seen a campaign about this evil?

 

 

[Maha Sarakham]

I don't think this is seen as 'evil' from a Thai perspective, so no, the only campaigns I've seen are for STD awareness.

[473geo]

Doesn't seem like a big issue, indeed the girls parents seem to step up, married couples from the rural environment often leave their offspring with the parents when they go to work in the cities so not unusual.

Parents of the boy stump up around 30 - 50k, small family village wedding, never legalised, boy can leave after the baby is born, nobody is concerned it is Thai womens job to bring up the child anyway, especially in the rural environment where they don't have duties other than occasional work on the farm.

As always Thai people mostly find a way to overcome their own challenges and often with a smile

 

 

[RichCor]

If you're

1 hour ago, lovethai123 said:

Anyone ever seen a campaign about this evil?

 

Oh... Kay...

 

If you're actually interested then suggest you do a google search for Thailand teen pregnancy campaign

 

and, yes, if you read Thai, you'd find media campaigns several times a year, but especially targeted warnings about the danger of Valentine's Day.

 

[teacherclaire]

 

    

A friend of ours works as a nurse at a bigger government hospital where many kids give birth, often kids from 12 to 16 who act as they wouldn't know where the pregnancy came from.

 

Once it's tested and sure, the parents have their first shock.

 

  A 13-year-old had sex with a ladyboy, not knowing that she could get pregnant from "her."

 

What sounds insane is the apparent lack of sex education; it doesn't seem to exist, even when you can see textbooks with genitals. 

 

  Quite a few little girls try to kill themselves because they know the parents will freak out when they tell them the truth.

 

A younger relative got caught in the toilet with a girl from the same village, and her parents wanted him to marry her to hold up the family's honor.

But he wasn't the only guy who had "his fun with her. "She desperately needed an iPhone. 

 

Even when the girl wanted to have sex with him, she started crying when somebody knocked on the door. 

He said that he'd never marry such a bi_h and was in jail for a few weeks. 

 

 Unfortunately, are often some uncles, friends of the parents, or even brothers, the culprits.

 

In a society where all truth seems to cause lost faces, it is challenging to go to the cops.

 

The village headman might decide that they should get married, but he can't do much more.

 

The news from the nurse comes in weekly; it's a never-ending story of underage pregnancies.

 

  Perhaps they should start to change their style of education? Then the whole problem collides with Thainess, which is now more often used in social study lessons.

 

 Regarding their view and how they believe sexuality has to be, there are no pregnant girls. They act as all is fine and nobody has any problems.

 

They are useful in covering all up. It's always somebody else, never the girl itself who had sex with a friend. 

 

They should start giving them a good education that all students are aware of AIDS, unwanted pregnancies, and ways to prevent it.

 

But then you'd need brainy teachers who do not lose face when they use words like penis and vagina.

 

All these kids watch porn anyway, so they already know more than their parents.

 

Change the educational system, and you'll have fewer kids who soon have their kids.

 

They then grow up at grandma to make some money and find another guy to pay the bills.

An ordinary Thai doesn't want to raise what's not his, and that might be the reason why they soon figure out that foreigners are the only chance, even when they hate it. 

 

But Internet providers do not seem to care if kiddies are watching porn and parents often have no time for their kids to see what they are doing.

 

 

 

 

  

 

   

  

 

 

 

  

 

 

Edited November 15, 2020 by teacherclaire

[Don Chance]

What better time to have children but in your teens?  Western countries hardly have any children because feminists wait until their 30's when they have lost most of their eggs.

[Meat Pie 47]

10 minutes ago, Don Chance said:

What better time to have children but in your teens?  Western countries hardly have any children because feminists wait until their 30's when they have lost most of their eggs.

Well it looks like you lost your marbles

[wobblyjohn]

If there wasn't any of this evil the massage girls wouldn't haven't been working there and you wouldn't have got your massage 

[Kwasaki]

8 hours ago, teacherclaire said:

Regarding their view and how they believe sexuality has to be, there are no pregnant girls. They act as all is fine and nobody has any problems.

I remember my step daughter wearing a 'T' shirt with wear a condom or words to that affect the family were so angry with her and angry with me saying what's wrong with her wearing it. 

[lovethai123]

15 hours ago, wobblyjohn said:

If there wasn't any of this evil the massage girls wouldn't haven't been working there and you wouldn't have got your massage 

A bank employee I met online gave me a nice massage back at my hotel. 

 

17 hours ago, teacherclaire said:

 

 

 

  A 13-year-old had sex with a ladyboy, not knowing that she could get pregnant from "her."

 

  

 

   

  

 

 

 

  

 

 

beyond evil. I almost puked.  disgusting.

 

[teacherclaire]

15 minutes ago, lovethai123 said:

A bank employee I met online gave me a nice massage back at my hotel. 

 

beyond evil. I almost puked.  disgusting.

 

 

 

A bank employee gave you a nice massage?

 

And I thought that they have other responsibilities. 

 

  That's something where I was very close to throw up. 

 

 

 

   

Edited November 16, 2020 by teacherclaire

[teacherclaire]

16 hours ago, wobblyjohn said:

If there wasn't any of this evil the massage girls wouldn't haven't been working there and you wouldn't have got your massage 

Isn't sex,  be it a massage with full satisfaction, or short and long time companionship part of our lives? 

 

There's nothing dirty when two adults do something they both want. Well, for different reasons. 

 

Plenty of marriages are nothing else than the relationship between a prostitute and her customer. The guy always pays for everything. 

 

Honey, here's your new Cartier...............

 

 

 

    

[Lacessit]

Many years ago, the Economist published a study which demonstrated the number of children any woman has is inversely correlated to her level of education. IMO it also explains the Thai incidence of teenage pregnancies.

It does also depend on the mores of individual families. My GF did not have a child until she was 23, and three years into a marriage. But then, IMO she is smarter than many Thais - she picked me.