NESDB: Facebook partly cause of teen pregnancies

BANGKOK, 28 February 2012 (NNT) - According to the National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB), the famous social networking site, facebook, has partly contributed to the cause of unwanted teen pregnancies.

The NESDB has revealed that people in the age group of 18-24 are the biggest group of facebook users, accounting for 40% of all users.

The Board said that the social media growth is partly to blame for the teen pregnancy problems as some youngsters post seducing messages or video clips online.

According to the NESDB, Thai mothers under 20 years old accounted for 14% of all mothers who delivered babies in 2009 and 2010. From this percentage, the UNICEF has placed Thailand on top of the list of teen pregnancy in Asia.

The public health survey in 2010 indicated that out of 760,000 babies born, 411,000 had died. The NESDB said that the figure shows that a number of mothers decided to have abortion.

-- NNT 2012-02-28

Life partly the cause of teen pregnancies.

The public health survey in 2010 indicated that out of 760,000 babies born, 411,000 had died. The NESDB said that the figure shows that a number of mothers decided to have abortion.

Woot!

Snap poll.

Will Thailand ever run our of excuses?

Mobile phones are also to blame, and the various e-mail and messaging services. Quite a list when you work through all the contributors.

Partly, maybe, A significant part? Hardly.

Always ready to believe something other than the fact Thai kids,

like most kids, are horny as hell and have sex.

Coincidentally FB is an early adopters thing in any culture

and the same demographic wanting hot sex in their youth

is ALSO the same that joins FB early too.

If they want to blame something,

blame the reduction in sex education and anti-AIDS education,

brought on from the complacency after there was a very successful

campaign years ago. If they did it again, and consistently, teenage

pregnancies would be lower.... but will NEVER stop, human nature

is at play, and no governmental edicts can stop that fundamental force.

Edited February 28, 201214 yr by animatic

The public health survey in 2010 indicated that out of 760,000 babies born, 411,000 had died. The NESDB said that the figure shows that a number of mothers decided to have abortion.

Woot!

54.1% died? Really?? What % represent abortions? What % other causes?

Edited February 28, 201214 yr by Reasonableman

Mobile phones are also to blame, and the various e-mail and messaging services. Quite a list when you work through all the contributors.

It is the normal and natural sex drive of the teenage as the cause,

all other things are just modalities to reach an already known end game;

Get laid tonight.

Which still happened before electricity,

but now via communications, they can find cuter, or more compatible partners.

So in one way it can cause better, more compatible couplings to meet

and possibly stay together longer.

Edited February 28, 201214 yr by animatic

The public health survey in 2010 indicated that out of 760,000 babies born, 411,000 had died. The NESDB said that the figure shows that a number of mothers decided to have abortion.

Woot!

54.1% died? Really?? What % represent abortions? What % other causes?

Can't really have an abortion after the baby is born. But again TIT.

Mobile phones are also to blame, and the various e-mail and messaging services. Quite a list when you work through all the contributors.

It is the normal and natural sex drive of the teenage as the cause,

all other things are just modalities to reach an already known end game;

Get laid tonight.

Which still happened before electricity,

but now via communications, they can find cuter, or more compatible partners.

So in one way it can cause better, more compatible couplings to meet

and possibly stay together longer.

Micro-evolution thru natural selection... pity the survival rate seems appallingly low.

The public health survey in 2010 indicated that out of 760,000 babies born, 411,000 had died. The NESDB said that the figure shows that a number of mothers decided to have abortion.

Woot!

54.1% died? Really?? What % represent abortions? What % other causes?

That would rate childbirth in Thailand as dangerous as the UK in the Dark Ages. Not really. In fact that figure is so far wrong as to indicate that the species cannot survive.

lack of decent sex education is to blame. a high and mighty culture ministry telling youngsters how to live is to blame. treating Thai teenagers like babies is to blame. etc.etc.etc

easy to blame Facebook or any other new communication devices ... maybe a lack of educational system specialy sex education can help ignorant teenagers.

The only requirements for sex to occur are proximity and opportunity. (author unknown to me but not original)

FB is how I have knocked up most of my Thai teen pregnancies. +1

i didn't even know you could get pregnant over the internet. i better start practicing safe surfing.

This wins the most stupid headline of the week!

Glad I don't use facebook. I am childless , maybe that is why. Nope, see my avatar

Thaksin Shinawatra and his neo-moralist regime would have banned Facebook from Thailand on lesser grounds than this. All because Thai teachers are too embarrassed to teach about contraceptives. Something tells me they have a few things to learn about scientific method and research ethics as well.

...this is so unbelievably stupid, that I hardly can swallow my anger!

How many "teenagers" in remote villages in Isaan do even have internet or a computer at home?

The only "thing" to blame" are clowns like this guy, having no idea how the world has evolved since Ayuthaya was the capital of Siam and that it is high time for Thailand, to join the rest of the world in the 21st century!

...or...have more football- clubs....

Wow. Nothing to do with morality, with the lack of good sex education, with parental supervision? Certainly young people can look to such people as MPs or the police for sterling examples of moral leadership in all areas.

The misconceptions, denials, and backwardness of Thai officialdom are on full display here - it is pitiful beyond words. Thai children are hapless victims of their elders' medieval ignorance.

Shocking, truly shocking.

& these are meant to be the more intelligeent of Thai society.

Blame anyone/anything but themselves.

& this part below, how does this make any sense at all ?????????????????

The public health survey in 2010 indicated that out of 760,000 babies born, 411,000 had died. The NESDB said that the figure shows that a number of mothers decided to have abortion.

Yes, surely anything which allows communication causes pregnancy.

Let's ban phones, too. Maybe note-writing, as well.

Dolts!

But if 760,000 babies were "born," by definition that means they were NOT aborted. And for 411,000 of those births to have died, that would mean the infant mortality rate was 54%, would it not?

Other causes being researched: 100% of all teens who engage in sexual behavior have parents who are older than they are! Researchers in Thailand propose that teens be given parents who are younger than they are in order to end this troubling pattern.

How did even THIS topic become a political football? Thaksin, democrats, royalists, bureaucrats, blah blah blah. Again? Isn't it about social media and unwanted pregnancies? Maybe I've lost the plot.

All of this is a pretext for banning Facebook, which is something a number of people in the government would like to see (social networks now have serious reputations [except in China] for helping foment change and revolution). There have been grumblings like this going on since the Red Shirt incidents in 2009 and 2010. That would certainly be major development: if Thailand limited (not sure how) or banned Facebook use. I'm pretty sure that would cause a general rebellion though, so I can't see any real chance of it happening.

Unfortunately, it also has to do with the attitude of many Thai men. Making a girl pregnant has no consequences whatsoever for the man involved. He can just wander off to the next victim, and very often he does. If the girls complain, all hell breaks loose. Very often, her family will even invent a story of some unknown out-of-village-guy who raped the girl while she was home alone, while in reality it was the neighbour's son who also happens to be her cousin.

Surely Facebook reduces the number of teen pregnancies.

Have you seen the amount of time these kids spend on Facebook? Prior to the internet they would have been having sex instead.

Snap poll.

Will Thailand ever run our of excuses?

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