All in a sud­den T&T has thou­sands of rapists ac­cord­ing to the Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter. What is the truth? Where is the dis­cus­sion that school­girls watch In­ter­net porn too, and de­cide to try out sex ed­u­ca­tion the­o­ries they learnt in schools on their many boyfriends in class­rooms dur­ing school hours?

This talk of thou­sands of teenage preg­nan­cies is a sub­tle new kind of at­tack on males. Many of these cas­es are "Romeo and Juli­et" preg­nan­cies. This is why some cul­tures mar­ry off their chil­dren in the teen years. To save them from the shame and so­cial stig­ma of bas­tard chil­dren or killing their out of mar­riage ba­bies via abor­tion.

Fe­males are made to seem like stu­pid by­stander vic­tims on the top­ic of sex con­duct and ini­ti­a­tion. But in aca­d­e­m­ic top­ics and out think­ing males the cul­tur­al be­lief is that fe­males hold some huge ad­van­tage. They are not all stu­pid sex vic­tims. When they en­gage in sex they know con­cep­tion is a pos­si­bil­i­ty. Nine­ty per cent of choice to have sex is the fe­male's de­ci­sion. Of course cas­es of sex­u­al abuse of teens is re­al­i­ty, but Dr Tim's thou­sands is a griev­ous ex­ag­ger­a­tion to vil­i­fy males.

Any house­hold where chil­dren feel more com­fort­able talk­ing to their teach­ers about per­son­al prob­lems over talk­ing to their par­ents is a dys­func­tion­al house­hold. Any par­ent who is the last know the prob­lems their chil­dren are deal­ing with is a fool­ish dys­func­tion­al par­ent.How old are the girls that so­ca and chut­ney artistes hire to wine on stage for the view­ing plea­sure of fete pa­trons? Some are bare­ly 18, oth­ers are un­der 18. What mes­sage does that send about moral­i­ty of fe­males and fete pa­trons?

Why do par­ents buy the most tight, se­duc­tive clothes for their daugh­ters to wear in pub­lic? Why do women gen­er­al­ly feel they have to dress to show­case their bod­ies in pub­lic, at the of­fice etc, as if they are so­lic­it­ing for sex? Why do grown women have three or four dif­fer­ent "child fa­thers?" They demon­strate fool­ish­ness. What do they ex­pect from fe­male chil­dren?

What is more, in this $190 mil­lion gov­ern­ment sub­sidised Car­ni­val sea­son teens, sin­gle women, ir­re­spon­si­ble adults are con­ceiv­ing the usu­al Car­ni­val ba­bies. Some will car­ry these bun­dles of joy to term and love them or de­spise them.

Did the Ed­u­ca­tion Min­is­ter fac­tor these State sub­sidised preg­nan­cies in­to his teen preg­nan­cy stats? Some will kill their bun­dles of joy by abor­tion with the com­mon cap­i­tal­ists ra­tio­nal and con­science, sup­pos­ing birth of their bun­dles of joy will mean com­pe­ti­tion for wealth, space, food, love etc. These Car­ni­val ba­bies are ear­marked for the nor­mal turnover to teach­ers and so­cial work­ers for love, care and so­cial­i­sa­tion.

Sarah Parks,

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