webfact Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post whybother Posted February 28, 2012 Popular Post Share Posted February 28, 2012 Life partly the cause of teen pregnancies. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Payboy Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
necronx99 Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 Snap poll. Will Thailand ever run our of excuses? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reasonableman Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 Mobile phones are also to blame, and the various e-mail and messaging services. Quite a list when you work through all the contributors. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post animatic Posted February 28, 2012 Popular Post Share Posted February 28, 2012 (edited) 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, 2012 by animatic 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reasonableman Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 (edited) 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, 2012 by Reasonableman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post animatic Posted February 28, 2012 Popular Post Share Posted February 28, 2012 (edited) 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, 2012 by animatic 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Payboy Posted February 28, 2012 Popular Post Share Posted February 28, 2012 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. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reasonableman Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzMick Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaicbr Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 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 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laurentbkk Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 easy to blame Facebook or any other new communication devices ... maybe a lack of educational system specialy sex education can help ignorant teenagers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OzMick Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 The only requirements for sex to occur are proximity and opportunity. (author unknown to me but not original) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CobraSnakeNecktie Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 FB is how I have knocked up most of my Thai teen pregnancies. +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post stevehaigh Posted February 28, 2012 Popular Post Share Posted February 28, 2012 i didn't even know you could get pregnant over the internet. i better start practicing safe surfing. 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post kaspercat Posted February 28, 2012 Popular Post Share Posted February 28, 2012 This wins the most stupid headline of the week! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronthai Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 Glad I don't use facebook. I am childless , maybe that is why. Nope, see my avatar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torasap Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post DocN Posted February 28, 2012 Popular Post Share Posted February 28, 2012 ...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.... 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bud7 Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 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. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Jawnie Posted February 28, 2012 Popular Post Share Posted February 28, 2012 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. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
josephinebloggs Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ijustwannateach Posted February 28, 2012 Popular Post Share Posted February 28, 2012 Yes, surely anything which allows communication causes pregnancy. Let's ban phones, too. Maybe note-writing, as well. Dolts! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post atsiii Posted February 28, 2012 Popular Post Share Posted February 28, 2012 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. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reasonableman Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unkomoncents Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zakk9 Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 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. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post madmitch Posted February 28, 2012 Popular Post Share Posted February 28, 2012 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. 11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOOD Robin Posted February 28, 2012 Share Posted February 28, 2012 Snap poll. Will Thailand ever run our of excuses? N-E-V-E-R.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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