Pre-teen pregnancies are rising in the Philippines – critics blame the Catholic Church
Pre-teen pregnancies are rising in the Philippines – critics blame the Catholic Church
Experts fear the country’s culture of ‘prevailing conservatism’, created by Catholicism, is a barrier to contraception and sex education
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It’s absolutely the Catholic Church. The country is incredibly Catholic. They often don’t use any form of birth control nor even tampons as it’s looked down upon. Overpopulated too
37 0 ReplySomething tells me PRE-teen pregnancies are a bigger problem than whoever's having sex with kids under-13 not using birth control.
20 0 ReplyUnless it's pre-teens having sex with each other. Then sex education, birth control and access to reproductive rights is the issue to solve.
24 0 ReplyFuck, I read that wrong. Pre-teen would be 12 or younger right? What the actual fuck?
12 0 ReplyThey're the same people that oppose sex education and birth control
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Almost everywhere is overpopulated.
4 0 ReplyHave you been to the Philippines though? I met a guy who has 19 siblings
10 0 ReplyI can't imagine spending the greater part of my life pregnant and caring for one kid after another for even longer.
4 0 ReplyBruh you ever seen this
4 0 ReplyHow... HOW DO YOU BIRTH 69 BABIES?
3 0 ReplyNumbers in bold and italics are likely to be legendary or inexact, some of them having been recorded before the 19th century.
But 33 though, still…
3 0 ReplyAnything above 4 already impresses me
4 0 ReplyI don't even want to give birth to one baby let alone an entire herd
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(btw your reply is what inspired me to look that up - meant it as a “yes and”) :)
2 0 ReplyWow that's wild
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