22 April 2010

teenage pregnancy

in ghana, i suppose women do sometimes get married and have children very young, and it is normal.
but i am really sad that one of my p2 girls (second grade) is pregnant. she is an older student (14 years old), but that is still too young for a baby. and it almost certainly means the end of her education, at the level where she can barely spell her own name.
last term, a jhs2 (9th grade) girl got pregnant, and that made me sad too, but she at least got some amount of an education first.
but now these two girls, audette and lika, are probably just beginning a really hard life. so sad.

2 comments:

  1. It places a new appreciation on our own lives, hmm? Some things can't be different.

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  2. That IS sad. :-( Glad God has placed you in their lives to care about them!

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