Thaivisa News Posted February 14, 2015 Share Posted February 14, 2015 Bangkok: - The country’s age group for first sexual experience has dropped from 18-19 to 15-16 years old and the problem of adolescent mothers is on the rise, the Public Health Ministry official said. “Based on the World Health Organisation report, the country has the second highest number of teenage births among Asean countries,” Dr PanpimolWipulakorn said. The number of Thai adolescent mothers trail only behind those in Laos. Of about 800,000 births per year given by young women, 200,000 are from unplanned pregnancies of adolescent mothers, aged 15-19. The country’s rate for teen pregnancy should be 50 per 1,000 young women. But the present rate is 52 per 1,000 young women. In certain areas, the number leaps to 75 per 1,000. A worrisome trend is 20 per cent of mothers under the age of 20 have already had repeat pregnancy for the second or third time. Another concern is the increasing number of adolescent mothers under the age of 15. The Public Health Ministry has launched awareness campaign designed to lower teen pregnancy. The campaign is centred on two-prong strategy –ensure the accessibility to condoms and revise sex education to enable the youths to resolve their sexual issues. “We should accept the fact that we cannot prohibit our children from engaging in sexual activities. What we can do is to give them proper education about sex,” Panpimol said. In the last month’s survey of 3,000 teenagers, almost one in ten said they would not use condom in casual sex with different partners. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post apetley Posted February 15, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 15, 2015 Here in the village it's genuinely shocking how many youngsters have had one or more kids whilst still a teenager and in almost every case the dad is nowhere to be seen. Sex education should not be the taboo it seems to be and idiots such as the guy refusing to install condom machines in schools should be roundly condemned as the dinosaurs they are. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post khwaibah Posted February 15, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 15, 2015 “We should accept the fact that we cannot prohibit our children from engaging in sexual activities. What we can do is to give them proper education about sex,” Panpimol said." No shyt Sherlock. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DM07 Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 ...and all because of Valentine's Day! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
upena Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Just think what the real total is. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RigPig Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 The culture of having kids look after parents doesn´t help either. Make the fathers pay and then there would be more responsibility too !! 20 year old bar girls with 3 kids living with Mom or the Grandmother and 4 different fathers, what a great start to life... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveyinasia Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Education has failed in Thailand on so many levels and this unfortunately is one of the consequences of a failed system. Of course one may not be able to stop teenage pregnancies however education may make them think a little more before acting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lupatria Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 The number of Thai adolescent mothers trail only behind those in Laos. Too bad the hub of "Thainess" and high moral standards missed the pole position again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post DoctorG Posted February 15, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 15, 2015 Come on kids! With a little more effort we can beat out Laos for that number one spot. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newatthis Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 ...and all because of Valentine's Day! Should be a great boom of babies in November, then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bronco10250 Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Thats the answer to all the hypocrites in the thai cultural/education environment... you terribly failed and all you did is fake, fake, fake... wake up and change! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
car720 Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Just goes to show that the main money making industry in Thailand will have no shortage of skilled workers. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angiolo Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 lots of mums and many run away dads . Many girls turn to bar girl work to support their children. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gutterboy Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 It's ok, mai pen rai, baby nar-rak, mama take care for me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masuk Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Free school lunches lowers birth rates. Huh? yup, you read it here, so it must be right. In Bangladesh some years back, the government decided to raise the nutritional value of the meals school children were getting, by starting up a free lunches at schools. As girls usually did not attend school after a few years, and it was considered more important for boys to get an education, it came as a surprise to government officials to find that girls were being sent to school so they had at least one nutritious meal a day. The benefits of course were that the girls started learning more about the facts of life, along with an education, and the number of teen pregnancies dropped, and the age of marriage rose. There was a marked drop in the population explosion. It seems to me the age old problem here is hormones + poor education in reproduction (O.K. - sex education). Time the education departments here had a wake-up call and joined the 21st century. Contraceptive pills and condom machines have been around a mighty long time in the modern world. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggt Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 I feel certain that young Thai males will step up to the challenge to make Thailand number one in teen pregnancy... The consequences are so apparent...young Thai women coping with trying to raise a family by themselves...sad... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torrens54 Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 So far, so good. My teenage daughter attends the same school my wife attended. It is co-ed and very strict. they have provided appropriate education on sexual matters and we discuss them at home. I'm not being smug but as I said, so far, so good! My little girl is very aware that her Daddy remembers what "he was like at the age of 15 or so" and will do all in his power to protect her from young lads with the same Intent that he had at that age. My wife has two Adult Daughters, both married and both very responsible young women. We just hope and pray that our "little Princess" turns out even half as good as the other girls. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
englishoak Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Keep trying Thailand you'll get the no1 slot sooner or later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubonrthai Posted March 9, 2015 Share Posted March 9, 2015 Any idea why the statistics in the above article don't match up with page 3 of this พมจ report? The number of births in the article are double what this report shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonbridgebrit Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2054rank.html For the record, Thailand's birthrate is lower than countries like Britain, France and China. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonbridgebrit Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 Thailand is 175th in the world birth-rate league table. France, UK and China are 159, 160 and 163 respectively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1BADDAT Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 So far, so good. My teenage daughter attends the same school my wife attended. It is co-ed and very strict. they have provided appropriate education on sexual matters and we discuss them at home. I'm not being smug but as I said, so far, so good! My little girl is very aware that her Daddy remembers what "he was like at the age of 15 or so" and will do all in his power to protect her from young lads with the same Intent that he had at that age. My wife has two Adult Daughters, both married and both very responsible young women. We just hope and pray that our "little Princess" turns out even half as good as the other girls. I think in your case it is clear that the school is not the reason that your step daughters turned out the way they did. And your daughter will probably turn out as well having apparently two responsible parents raising her. Education only goes so far, ultimately it's the parents that determine the child's fate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BKKSnowBird Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 My gf said teen pregnancy is because of American movies. Lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balo Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 Why is it so hard to put on a condom for a teenager? They can't afford it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redandyellow Posted March 10, 2015 Share Posted March 10, 2015 Just goes to show that the main money making industry in Thailand will have no shortage of skilled workers. It's surprising that only i found that funny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuckyLew Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 Comon Thailand ... you are almost there, a few more teenage pregnancies and you can be number 1 Until they start educating teens about safe sex and getting them to use / wear protection this trend will continue Give them access to protection When will Thailand learn that education is not a bad thing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidron Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 (edited) Why is it so hard to put on a condom for a teenager? They can't afford it? Condoms too big? No 2-inch ones sold at 7-11s? Edited March 11, 2015 by davidron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimbo2014 Posted March 11, 2015 Share Posted March 11, 2015 No one said it... another hub? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jerojero Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 Thailand, the hub of teen pregnancies. Congrats on keeping young poor women ignorant and men continuing with no moral responsibility for their offspring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masuk Posted March 12, 2015 Share Posted March 12, 2015 At least you don't have men in black campaigning against using condoms. The Filipinos are brainwashed into believing they are forever damned if they use them, and at the University I worked at in Papua New Guinea, the sisters at the student health clinic refused to issue condoms, even though they had boxes of them in storage. We can't entirely blame the education system. how about in Thailand. what are they taught in schools? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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