Facebook Partly The Cause Of Unwanted Thai Teen Pregnancies: NESDB

[Fatherfluffybottom]

I was on Facebook, slipped, fell, and impregnated a girl, thanks facebook....

[thairamsfan]

What a load of B^llsh!t !!!!!!!

[Gillespie]

I would ask if those responsible for this report are aware of the logical fallacy usually labelled post hoc ergo propter hoc, but since they're apparently not aware of the distinction between their <deleted> and their elbows I won't bother.

[sirchai]

Thailand...the hub of facebook babies???

[englishinsiam]

Thats accurate reporting of Abortions.... I thought abortion was illegal in Thailand .......

[tragickingdom]

The figures must be totally wrong of course and show that Thailand has a kind of Greek statistical bureau. IF 54% of all born babies died in 2010 than the medical profession in Thailand is not only non existent but killing off babies itself. I bet that the figure that the BESDB mentioned has at least a zero too much. Nobody seem to be able to check facts at the Nation.

[sydneyjed]

Wasn't it only a year or so ago that the last Thai Prime Minister ordered all condom machines be taken out of schools due to morality concerns?

So now it's facebooks' fault...

[newjobs61]

so lets blame facebook for our kids getting pregnant

also our kids have account's with HI5 thai love links,badoo,twitter,youtube to mention a few so why not just ban internet in thailand and stop the blame

[spidermike007]

The reason why Facebook is to blame, is that Thais are very good people. They have no bad qualities. They are angels, very close to the bosom of God himself. Their level of natural divinity is very high. They never, ever think bad thoughts on their own. They never do anything to hurt people, and they never do or say bad things. All of the wrongs committed in thai society are caused by foreigners. Even the prostitutes would never consider such an act, if the foreigners were not present to tempt them, with their evil money. Ask any monk, he will confirm this. Ask any politician, he or she will confirm this. These are facts. Thias are the best, and the brightest, and the most superior of all the world.

[Payboy]

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

That means that you haven't also heard too much mobile phone use could give you hearing aids.

[hkt83100]

I must say, this headline tops all the nonsense I ever read. The only thing I am missing is the recommendation for a -proof firewall running on Windows 95/98/Millennium/2000/XP/Vista/7.

[Tatsujin]

I love the way Thai's continue to blame anyone and everything for their problems.

It's like their attitudes to car accidents. If I as a foreigner am involved in a car accident, it's automatically my fault because (by their logic) if I wasn't here, the accident wouldn't have happened lol

Got to love Thailand <grins>

[moskito]

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.

Absolutely, IF there is something to blame here its the Thai-Government and its ongoing efforts

keeping the people and specially the kids stupid.... Stupid people doesnt ask questions and which

government needs educated people demand answers? so EDUCATION is a problem here, not

FaceBook or Camfrog or Twitter or or or....

[eddie61]

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.

I never really liked facebook, but I may need to change my mind. How do you have sex on it?

Isn't it bad for the keyboard? Maybe I need a bigger hard disk.....

[AGareth2]

not taking precautions is the cause

[h90]

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

But without video games the rate would be even higher....

[Arkady]

Researchers also discovered that normal sexual urge of adolescents contributed insignificantly to unwanted teen pregnancies. The main factors included Facebook, Blackberries, iPhones, cars with smoked windows, lack of respect for Thai culture and inadequate sports facilities. He he. Keep 'em coming NESDB.

[leebeeUK]

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!

However many of these 411,000 babies were aborted.. or 'died' in the womb if you want to put it so.. it means that they WEREN'T born were they, so CANNOT also be part of the first set of figures/ stats of 760,000 BORN?!.. and it was all down to Facebook anyway, yeah? ('I think we got another one o them there eejuts on the payroll, Jed'!!)

[Lopburi99]

Perhaps it has just a little to do with Thai society's "anything goes" attitude. For instance, it is considered ok for a girl in her twenties (or even teens) to leave her rural village to work in a Pattaya bar then abandon her young soul to marry a man 2-3 times her age (and weight) after knowing him but a few weeks. He can't speak Thai and she can't speak his language - no problem. Anything for an ATM card. This place is unbelievable.

Edited February 28, 2012 by Lopburi99

[moskito]

I love the way Thai's continue to blame anyone and everything for their problems.

It's like their attitudes to car accidents. If I as a foreigner am involved in a car accident, it's automatically my fault because (by their logic) if I wasn't here, the accident wouldn't have happened lol

Got to love Thailand <grins>

True, its the ThaiWay of life...BUT please, dont blame it on the Thais...they just dont know it better, the people in Power and Religion

educated them beeing like this.... ....has someone mentioned Thaksin yet? ....things will change when HE is finally back and

then the educating will start..

[Thai at Heart]

I didn't know that you could get pregnant from posting a seductive picture. Powerful stuff this facebook thingy.....

[xavierr]

Thailand is in a transition from a patriarchal context to a society where people become self-aware. Unfortunately those high up there in the administration cannot avoid the patriarchal tendency of perceiving the population as "innocent" and as "victims of foreign systems".

People who are in positions of responsibility should be more imaginative and avoid lapsing into obsolete speech.

Edited February 28, 2012 by xavierr

[Thai at Heart]

People who are in positions of responsibility should be more imaginative and avoid lapsing into obsolete speech.

Do you mean they should stop talking s**t????

[xavierr]

People who are in positions of responsibility should be more imaginative and avoid lapsing into obsolete speech.

Do you mean they should stop talking s**t????

If you have a preference for blunt speech yes, but blunt speech does not go down well in these latitudes

[mrtoad]

If they just went and played football there wouldn't even be this discussion

[Om85]

Thailand intellectual never stop to amusing me

[Om85]

Thailand is in a transition from a patriarchal context to a society where people become self-aware. Unfortunately those high up there in the administration cannot avoid the patriarchal tendency of perceiving the population as "innocent" and as "victims of foreign systems".

People who are in positions of responsibility should be more imaginative and avoid lapsing into obsolete speech.

Totally agree with you.

[Roel]

Probably best to fight them with their own weapons. Repeat this mantra: "I did NOT read this article, therefore it does NOT exist".

[allan michaud]

I love the way Thai's continue to blame anyone and everything for their problems.

It's like their attitudes to car accidents. If I as a foreigner am involved in a car accident, it's automatically my fault because (by their logic) if I wasn't here, the accident wouldn't have happened lol

Got to love Thailand <grins>

True, its the ThaiWay of life...BUT please, dont blame it on the Thais...they just dont know it better, the people in Power and Religion

educated them beeing like this.... ....has someone mentioned Thaksin yet? ....things will change when HE is finally back and

then the educating will start..

Really, I didn't see much change in education in his first 6 years in charge. I do seem to remember endless reshuffles of ministers so they could all get their snouts in the trough.

[silent]

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.

"If it's fun and makes you happy, what can be wrong with it?"