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By August 18, 2014Archives, Opinion

The young’s responsibility

Johanne R. Macob

By Johanne Margarette R. Macob

THIS is both sad and alarming.

I have come across reports about the ‘delinquencies’ of its students of a certain school. I was dismayed with the accounts of some of the school personnel about how a number of their students have been caught engaging in pre-marital sex.

Some teenagers in the said school were already reported to be involved in sex scandals, with one material allegedly posted on a social media site and was later removed. There were reports of pregnancies among the undergrads and rumors have it that some of their classmates are no longer virgins.

I don’t mind these if we’re in a different setting, or in a different timeline, perhaps. But, we are talking about Filipino youths here, worse, about high school students of today.

Let’s get the issue straight. Sex scandals among celebrities especially in Hollywood are but normal, that’s their culture. However, in a country with a culture and conservative upbringing as ours, these scandals even among celebrities are already a buzz. Recently, a newscaster’s sex video became viral and many made such a big of a deal of it. Can you imagine 12-16-years-olds in such videos?

Personally, the report that came to my knowledge has alarmed me. Things are getting worse. The issue transcends the sexual act itself. It’s the likely destruction of a juvenile’s future. I don’t know what caused this permissiveness to happen, could it be because of illegal drugs, of peer pressure, absence of parental guidance? But frankly, there is no point in pointing fingers, blaming others. We just have to address the issue in the best way we can.

As I and everybody else keep on saying, we must all remember that we have the responsibility to solve our problems. To my fellow youth, no matter how much our government and our parents try and do to help us, they can only do so much. We need to focus on our life-long dream of a better future and veer away from anything that may prevent us from doing so. Let us be responsible enough to discern what we should and should not do. I recall our provincial governor’s remark that education is still the best way to get out of poverty and to pursue a better life. Indeed, it is. Let us prove to all, especially to ourselves, that we can do better, that we are,still, the future of our land.

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