In Martin Luther King’s voice, “I have a dream” the song that rhymes in every girl’s splendorous mind, radiating sheening smiles all over. One beauty that is quickly grabbed and bagged away, becoming history of their life’s by pointing ruining critics of this and that.
Teenage pregnancy, a challenge recorded in past literatures not to have just taken spotlight now. For once it was disguised under traditions of early marriages, a very acceptable social norm, however society plans on calling it a piece of sh*t. With that said, why should you provide a liable artificially calibrated play ground for the critics centered at exhausting a girl of the essence of living? Conceiving is brought about when two scientifically proven most advanced earth roam creatures (human beings).Then why scrutinize one gender and become nay to HER future. Tagging her as spoils and residues of the now society designed mayhem. Early teenage pregnancy is no reason to keep someone in the shadows of her life. We live in an evolving society, one that changes with time to time.
Once, girls were socially believed not to be fit to go to school. Today, the top government positions are logged with females, a great achievement. I TOO, HAVE A DREAM! Whereas, many will continue to point critics towards these adolescent mothers, a few really set the tables flat to analyze the general outcomes of doing such. The related aftermaths on
the to be new babies of the earth. 8 in 10 teenage mothers' babies find difficulty in accessing a credible lifestyle, a thought that never once rings a bell in any of the oppressors' minds.
The ease in casting out someone after they have become pregnant than raise support in our society has disgusted things furthermore. Once she becomes pregnant, there’s only one thought that becomes selfishly acceptable. Send her for marriage, never let her study again, tag her shameless and extra. Girls from a poor background have almost no liberation after conceiving. The available teenage services are not of protective manners of administration increasing insecurity amongst youths accessing them. I am just one of many other teenage youths in Uganda with the girls most vulnerable.
However, the most puzzling part of this story is that when I or any other teenage youth messes up due to the insufficiency of information at my desk. The same community that gave me little to no chance of accessing this information will continuously start pointing fingers towards me, exhausting the essence of life out of me.
We all have the ultimate control over our thoughts. However, our thoughts and words are calibrated befitting a certain standard identity we desire to follow. I choose to condemn society’s deliberate action of disregarding a teenage mother as not one of us. I emphasize on clipping together needed support for this group. Shame on you if you think your stance in disregarding them is the right way to go.
-Waniba Fred Numbers
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