Nath, i think you're over generalizing how liberal people view these sorts of incidents, and over simplifying what happens once the deed is done. the children have, and will be punished enough coming from a family like this.
Over generalising? over simplifying?
NOPE
Personally it isnt just me infact everyone I speak to about this is shocked and 99% agree
People in general are realising that we are letting other prople and groups control our lives even more and I suspect that things will change soon.
When I was a kid I respected life in general alot more than the majority of children do now.
People always say you cant blame the parents which is a load of crock, if the parents had raised their children better maybe things wouldnt be so bad now.
Yes I am a parent I have a son of 11 years old and I can tell you now that if he did something like this I would not be supporting the entire thing and would be pushing for a resolution along long time before birth.
As for the girl thinking it would be glamorous NO COMMENT
I'm not sure why this surprises anybody.
We as a society have gotten to the point where we accept that kids as young as 12 will be having sex and we even defend their right to so. The justification is "it's their body, they should be able to use it when they are ready". To be frank, this is a crock but by god we are going to teach them how to use it and then act shocked when they do. We are a society driven by youthful sexual images yet we also expect those most impacted by those images to not respond to them although we are not willing to tell them not to.
I also blame parents to a large extent. So many parents are unwilling or unable to believe that their child could possibly be doing something like that. It's easy to do and it's easy for adults to get so wrapped up in their own lives that they don't see what their kids are doing. Yes, that IS the voice of experience speaking. If more parents actually paid attention to what their kids are doing, both in real life AND on-line, they would be shocked by the things they would find. They would find that their kids ARE doing those kinds of things at 12, 13, 14 15. They would then have to examine their own lives to figure out what sort of values they are instilling in their kids and that would be both difficult and painful to do.
But we'll still be shocked when a 13 year old fathers a child.
Totally agree with the above am not a prude and understand there are alot of influences out there BUT surely parents can influence children as well
I have to stop typing now before i probably end up banned froom a forum within a day of joining which would deffo be a first
BTW dont care about REP!