After narrowing down my issue to” Should we raise female marriageable to 18? ”, I’m determined to be for it. I searched for information from different aspects such as psychology and physiology to support my point; in addition, I used a real case to oppose teen marriage. However, after the teacher-student conference, I found out I forgot those who are really influenced by the modification of law.
Women who want to get married at very ages are mostly lack of education, financial basis etc. The reason that drives them into marriage is not merely about love. Now that she is hard to make a living by herself, and happens to have a baby with a guy she thinks he is nice, why not she settle down with him? Marriage seems to be a good choice. In fact, teen marriage still has many difficulties that I mentioned in my annotations they need to deal with. When facing those problems, they may feel stressful, and even suffer from the marriage, but the plight is, there is no other choice left. So the fundamental way to avoid unhappy marriage is to give those marginalized young people help.
The modification of female marriageable age to 18 is the main law; however, there must be relative laws to support. Our government needs to offer enough welfare. They have already had maternity leave and parental Leave. In addition, government should further provide some allowance for them to buy baby stuffs and send kids to kindergarten. With these helps, teen moms can finish their studies; so that they can find jobs more easily in the future. They are no longer to rely on men, and still have ability to raise their babies and themselves. Although, undeniably, it’s harder for them to live lives than normal family, it can stop avoidable tragedies, like those ones I mentioned in my annotations, from happening. Of course, if a guy is right for her, others have no rights to oppose them, but under the premise that they are at least 18 years old, and both their parents agree with their decision.
Society should not blame on teen couples once they suffer from their marriage, or something bad happens. Instead, what we need to do is to give them a hand. People, who argue about the modification of female marriageable, are usually not the very group facing the problem. Ironically, those who are really in need seldom speak for themselves. Thus when discussing the problem, a sympathetic point of view should be in place of critique, and political struggle.
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Revised Annotation 4
Source:
PTS Evening News-“Teen Mom Killed Her Two-year-old Daughter”(Recorded Aug 20, 2010) Retrieved from YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ijs5XyMTro
“In Taitung County, the method of a young mom to discipline her 2-year-old daughter is to grab her head to hit against the wall. The next day, unfortunately, the poor little girl died.”(PTS) When it comes to teen marriage, many people hold opinion against it because they doubt that if teen couples or maybe teen parents have the ability to make enough money to support their own family, and that if their mind is mature enough for a family. The mom in the piece of news is just 19 years old. She gave birth to her daughter at the age of 17. Although she is at such a young age, she has already had two marriages and 3 children. Their home’s economic situation has been bad for a long time. Her husband is a laboring worker, and spends most of his time working instead of accompany his kids.
This tragedy is an epitome reflecting a corner of our society. People get married so early that they don’t even have financial base to raise the family. Thus, miserable consequences come about. Many of them can only earn very little amount of money, or rely on their parents. Some worse cases choose to rob people. If young couples live in this way for a long period of time, they must feel a lot of pressure and their emotion must be bad and down. Arguments and conflicts, then, take place the love they once had.
When children are involved, things will go more complicated. First, parents may be too busy doing odd jobs to teach their kids. They may go astray in the future and form a vicious circulation. Second, parents may vent their stress and anger on them. When they cannot control their feelings, domestic violence happens. If things go worse, a young life may be sacrifice for his or her parents’ impulse. Last, if parents end up in divorce, then who should raise a kid in the condition that both of them don’t have enough financial bases? Who can pay enough attention to a kid, at the same time, he or she needs to make money and take care of the home alone?
Underage couples have many difficult problems to deal with like making a living. They need to give up studying to support their family. In general, however, it is more difficult for the underage to find a stable job. First, their education is relative low than those who graduate from colleges. In addition, even a graduate has problem finding a job in Taiwan, not mention those who only have high school or junior high school educational background. Second, many jobs, even part-time, require a minimum age requirement of at least 18, which is another restriction for them to get one job. Without a stable salary, it is extremely hard to maintain a marriage. Delaying the marriageable age can give young people more time to think twice if they are really ready to get married instead of just from an impulse.
1. I changed my words to explain why teenagers have difficulty making living to avoid misunderstanding(In the original one, I said employers are reluctant to give them jobs; however, it’s not what I want to convey. Thus I change the way to express my thought more clearly)(response to Flora)
2. I shorten my sentence to make it more precise and clearer.
3. I added the source.
Response to peers’ comments:
1. To Annie: about your comment that the problem is also referring to poor family, not only teen couples, yes, you are right. However, I want to focus the problem on teen family. Because not most adult couples have economic problem making a living, but the majority of teen couples do. Besides, my topic is” should we modify female marriageable age to 18?” so what I need to concern is teenagers. Just like your topic is about euthanasia of street dogs not about euthanasia of other animals like mice or street cats.
2. To Sue: you said” Because if the young couple want to stay together with each other, I think they will not really care about how the law regulate them.” Law cannot stop teenagers from having lovers, sure. However, girlfriends and boyfriends are very different from husbands and wives. The latter have to take more responsibility. They cannot leave the other at will since marriage forbid. In addition, law can protect both husband and wife. So the modification of enhancing female’s marriageable age can give them more time to think twice. The purpose is not to stop them from loving each other but to help them to know their feelings more clearly.
3. To Jim: you suggested me keep my personal opinion for research paper instead of annotation. However, I want to build the connection between my annotation and my issue so that peers and professor can understand why I choose the source as my annotation.
PTS Evening News-“Teen Mom Killed Her Two-year-old Daughter”(Recorded Aug 20, 2010) Retrieved from YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ijs5XyMTro
“In Taitung County, the method of a young mom to discipline her 2-year-old daughter is to grab her head to hit against the wall. The next day, unfortunately, the poor little girl died.”(PTS) When it comes to teen marriage, many people hold opinion against it because they doubt that if teen couples or maybe teen parents have the ability to make enough money to support their own family, and that if their mind is mature enough for a family. The mom in the piece of news is just 19 years old. She gave birth to her daughter at the age of 17. Although she is at such a young age, she has already had two marriages and 3 children. Their home’s economic situation has been bad for a long time. Her husband is a laboring worker, and spends most of his time working instead of accompany his kids.
This tragedy is an epitome reflecting a corner of our society. People get married so early that they don’t even have financial base to raise the family. Thus, miserable consequences come about. Many of them can only earn very little amount of money, or rely on their parents. Some worse cases choose to rob people. If young couples live in this way for a long period of time, they must feel a lot of pressure and their emotion must be bad and down. Arguments and conflicts, then, take place the love they once had.
When children are involved, things will go more complicated. First, parents may be too busy doing odd jobs to teach their kids. They may go astray in the future and form a vicious circulation. Second, parents may vent their stress and anger on them. When they cannot control their feelings, domestic violence happens. If things go worse, a young life may be sacrifice for his or her parents’ impulse. Last, if parents end up in divorce, then who should raise a kid in the condition that both of them don’t have enough financial bases? Who can pay enough attention to a kid, at the same time, he or she needs to make money and take care of the home alone?
Underage couples have many difficult problems to deal with like making a living. They need to give up studying to support their family. In general, however, it is more difficult for the underage to find a stable job. First, their education is relative low than those who graduate from colleges. In addition, even a graduate has problem finding a job in Taiwan, not mention those who only have high school or junior high school educational background. Second, many jobs, even part-time, require a minimum age requirement of at least 18, which is another restriction for them to get one job. Without a stable salary, it is extremely hard to maintain a marriage. Delaying the marriageable age can give young people more time to think twice if they are really ready to get married instead of just from an impulse.
1. I changed my words to explain why teenagers have difficulty making living to avoid misunderstanding(In the original one, I said employers are reluctant to give them jobs; however, it’s not what I want to convey. Thus I change the way to express my thought more clearly)(response to Flora)
2. I shorten my sentence to make it more precise and clearer.
3. I added the source.
Response to peers’ comments:
1. To Annie: about your comment that the problem is also referring to poor family, not only teen couples, yes, you are right. However, I want to focus the problem on teen family. Because not most adult couples have economic problem making a living, but the majority of teen couples do. Besides, my topic is” should we modify female marriageable age to 18?” so what I need to concern is teenagers. Just like your topic is about euthanasia of street dogs not about euthanasia of other animals like mice or street cats.
2. To Sue: you said” Because if the young couple want to stay together with each other, I think they will not really care about how the law regulate them.” Law cannot stop teenagers from having lovers, sure. However, girlfriends and boyfriends are very different from husbands and wives. The latter have to take more responsibility. They cannot leave the other at will since marriage forbid. In addition, law can protect both husband and wife. So the modification of enhancing female’s marriageable age can give them more time to think twice. The purpose is not to stop them from loving each other but to help them to know their feelings more clearly.
3. To Jim: you suggested me keep my personal opinion for research paper instead of annotation. However, I want to build the connection between my annotation and my issue so that peers and professor can understand why I choose the source as my annotation.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Revised Annotation 3-
source:
http://tw.nextmedia.com/subapple/article/art_id/30689615/IssueID/20080626
18歲前嘗禁果 不孕機率增10倍 蘋果日報 - 2008年 06月26日
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/%E6%9C%AA%E6%88%90%E5%B9%B4%E7%B5%90%E5%A9%9A-%E5%BF%83%E7%90%86%E7%96%BE%E7%97%85%E9%A2%A8%E9%9A%AA%E9%AB%98-053000480.html
未成年結婚 心理疾病風險高 路透(中央社) – 2011年8月31日星期三下午1:30
No matter what a motivation is to drive a teenager into marriage, having baby accidentally or simply because they want to settle down with his or her Mr. or Mr. Right, inevitably, the chances of having sex after getting married is high. Now, I want to talk about the issue with some medication-supported evidence. The report shows that “an underage woman who has sex experiences too early, the chances that she will get caners such cervical cancer increase, 2.5 times higher than do adult women.”(Apple) In addition, “the probability of too-early sex causing barren is 10 times higher than those who have sex later and do not infected by virus.”(Apple) Maybe it can explain the reason why the girl, in my annotation 1, who are eager to get pregnant and even take fertility drugs, keeps failing to have one however hard she tries. She has sex at 12.
Maybe they really fall in love with each other so madly and they can love the other whole their lives; however, without a healthy body, it is more difficult for them. We cannot focus on the feelings at a moment; instead we should think further and see with a point of view in the long term. After all, marriage is not that easy. After going into it, a life is not simply a person’s own. It relates to his or her companion and their children. They need to take responsibility. There is no excuse to avoid and to evade any trouble. Now that you are married, you are an adult. In spite of the fact that actually you are just a teenager. If one of you gets ill, the other one needs to take care of you. It is not an easy task at all. It is a torture not only to a patient herself but to her husband and family since it is a tough and long process. If a man really makes his wife get cervical cancer due to his impulse of sex, he needs to pay a lot to make up the mistake he made when he was too young.
In psychological aspect,” comparing baby brides and female who gets married after 18, the former one is more likely to face psychological disease.”(Reuter) Young wife need to deal with many household affairs which are burdens to such young people. When she sees her friends, dressed up gorgeously, go shopping and have fun all the time with a carefree mind, she may feel sad and unfair because she could enjoy her life as her friends do if she did not get married so early. She may think why she cannot do and buy whatever she wants at will; instead need to worry about money and haggle over every ounce. Gradually, young wives may suffer from psychological problems.
Before discussing whether teen marriage is proper or not, we should also take healthy and psychological concerns into close consideration. Leave common people’s basis away first, the two objective factors influence if a marriage will be happy and blissing profoundly. If you really love your lover, why can’t you just wait for her a bit longer until her body is mature enough? After all, marriage is a long road that you share most of your life there.
1.I add an annotation which is about underage woman is easier to have psychological problem than woman who gets married later. Through the two pieces of annotations, I can talk about the issue in an objective way.
2.I add quotations.
3.I change some of my words and cross out the first paragraph to prevent my article from looking to subjective.
http://tw.nextmedia.com/subapple/article/art_id/30689615/IssueID/20080626
18歲前嘗禁果 不孕機率增10倍 蘋果日報 - 2008年 06月26日
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/%E6%9C%AA%E6%88%90%E5%B9%B4%E7%B5%90%E5%A9%9A-%E5%BF%83%E7%90%86%E7%96%BE%E7%97%85%E9%A2%A8%E9%9A%AA%E9%AB%98-053000480.html
未成年結婚 心理疾病風險高 路透(中央社) – 2011年8月31日星期三下午1:30
No matter what a motivation is to drive a teenager into marriage, having baby accidentally or simply because they want to settle down with his or her Mr. or Mr. Right, inevitably, the chances of having sex after getting married is high. Now, I want to talk about the issue with some medication-supported evidence. The report shows that “an underage woman who has sex experiences too early, the chances that she will get caners such cervical cancer increase, 2.5 times higher than do adult women.”(Apple) In addition, “the probability of too-early sex causing barren is 10 times higher than those who have sex later and do not infected by virus.”(Apple) Maybe it can explain the reason why the girl, in my annotation 1, who are eager to get pregnant and even take fertility drugs, keeps failing to have one however hard she tries. She has sex at 12.
Maybe they really fall in love with each other so madly and they can love the other whole their lives; however, without a healthy body, it is more difficult for them. We cannot focus on the feelings at a moment; instead we should think further and see with a point of view in the long term. After all, marriage is not that easy. After going into it, a life is not simply a person’s own. It relates to his or her companion and their children. They need to take responsibility. There is no excuse to avoid and to evade any trouble. Now that you are married, you are an adult. In spite of the fact that actually you are just a teenager. If one of you gets ill, the other one needs to take care of you. It is not an easy task at all. It is a torture not only to a patient herself but to her husband and family since it is a tough and long process. If a man really makes his wife get cervical cancer due to his impulse of sex, he needs to pay a lot to make up the mistake he made when he was too young.
In psychological aspect,” comparing baby brides and female who gets married after 18, the former one is more likely to face psychological disease.”(Reuter) Young wife need to deal with many household affairs which are burdens to such young people. When she sees her friends, dressed up gorgeously, go shopping and have fun all the time with a carefree mind, she may feel sad and unfair because she could enjoy her life as her friends do if she did not get married so early. She may think why she cannot do and buy whatever she wants at will; instead need to worry about money and haggle over every ounce. Gradually, young wives may suffer from psychological problems.
Before discussing whether teen marriage is proper or not, we should also take healthy and psychological concerns into close consideration. Leave common people’s basis away first, the two objective factors influence if a marriage will be happy and blissing profoundly. If you really love your lover, why can’t you just wait for her a bit longer until her body is mature enough? After all, marriage is a long road that you share most of your life there.
1.I add an annotation which is about underage woman is easier to have psychological problem than woman who gets married later. Through the two pieces of annotations, I can talk about the issue in an objective way.
2.I add quotations.
3.I change some of my words and cross out the first paragraph to prevent my article from looking to subjective.
Annotation 4-Teen Mom Killed Her Two-year-old Daughter
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ijs5XyMTro
2010-08-20公視晚間新聞(涉虐2歲女童致死 未成年媽媽收押)
When it comes to the issue of teen marriage, many people hold opinion against it because they doubt that if teen couples or maybe teen parents have the ability to make enough money to support their own family, and that if their mind is mature enough to complete a home. “In Taitung county, the method of a young mom to discipline her 2-year-old daughter is to grab her kid’s head to hit against the wall. The next day, unfortunately, the poor little girl died.” The mom is just 19 years old. She gave birth to her daughter at the age of 17. Although she is at such a young age, she has already had two marriages and 3 children. Their home’s economic situation has been bad for a long time. Her husband is a worker, and most of his time, he doesn’t live with her and his kid.
The news is just an epitome of many tragedies that usually happen in the corner of our society. People get married so early that they don’t even have economic base to raise the family. Thus, miserable consequences appear. Many employers don’t hire underage people. Even part-time jobs require people need to be at least 18 years old. So it is very hard for underage people to get stable works. Under this kind plight, many of them can only earn very little amount of money, or rely on their parents. Some worse cases choose to rob people. If young couples live in this way over a long period of time, they must feel a lot of pressure and their emotion must be bad and down. Arguments and conflicts, then, take place the love they once had. Relationship between husband and wife will deteriorate and thus end up in divorce.
When children are involved, things will go more complicated. First, parents may be too busy doing odd jobs to teach their kids. They may go astray in the future and form a vicious circulation. Second, parents may vent their stress and anger on them. They mind are not mature enough to handle their emotions. When they cannot control their feelings, domestic violence happens. If things go worse, a young life may be sacrifice for his or her parents’ impulse. Last, if parents end up in divorce, it will influence children a lot, too. Who should raise a kid in the condition that both of them don’t have the ability? Who can pay good attention on a kid he or she needs to make money and take of the home alone at the same time?
Underage couples have many difficult problems to deal with. In general, people are reluctant to give them a chance to have a job on account of their immature thinking, irresponsible behaviors and maybe low education. Without a stable salary, it is extremely hard to maintain a marriage. Delaying the marriageable age can give young people more time to think twice if they are really ready to get married instead of just from an impulse.
2010-08-20公視晚間新聞(涉虐2歲女童致死 未成年媽媽收押)
When it comes to the issue of teen marriage, many people hold opinion against it because they doubt that if teen couples or maybe teen parents have the ability to make enough money to support their own family, and that if their mind is mature enough to complete a home. “In Taitung county, the method of a young mom to discipline her 2-year-old daughter is to grab her kid’s head to hit against the wall. The next day, unfortunately, the poor little girl died.” The mom is just 19 years old. She gave birth to her daughter at the age of 17. Although she is at such a young age, she has already had two marriages and 3 children. Their home’s economic situation has been bad for a long time. Her husband is a worker, and most of his time, he doesn’t live with her and his kid.
The news is just an epitome of many tragedies that usually happen in the corner of our society. People get married so early that they don’t even have economic base to raise the family. Thus, miserable consequences appear. Many employers don’t hire underage people. Even part-time jobs require people need to be at least 18 years old. So it is very hard for underage people to get stable works. Under this kind plight, many of them can only earn very little amount of money, or rely on their parents. Some worse cases choose to rob people. If young couples live in this way over a long period of time, they must feel a lot of pressure and their emotion must be bad and down. Arguments and conflicts, then, take place the love they once had. Relationship between husband and wife will deteriorate and thus end up in divorce.
When children are involved, things will go more complicated. First, parents may be too busy doing odd jobs to teach their kids. They may go astray in the future and form a vicious circulation. Second, parents may vent their stress and anger on them. They mind are not mature enough to handle their emotions. When they cannot control their feelings, domestic violence happens. If things go worse, a young life may be sacrifice for his or her parents’ impulse. Last, if parents end up in divorce, it will influence children a lot, too. Who should raise a kid in the condition that both of them don’t have the ability? Who can pay good attention on a kid he or she needs to make money and take of the home alone at the same time?
Underage couples have many difficult problems to deal with. In general, people are reluctant to give them a chance to have a job on account of their immature thinking, irresponsible behaviors and maybe low education. Without a stable salary, it is extremely hard to maintain a marriage. Delaying the marriageable age can give young people more time to think twice if they are really ready to get married instead of just from an impulse.
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Annotation3- Too Early Sex Causes the Infecund Rate High
18歲前嘗禁果 不孕機率增10倍
In the past, people discuss if teen marriage is appropriate from a point of view that doubting their ability to cope with the problem they will face after marriage. However, it is hard to judge because situations differ from person to person. Although most of them are immature in many ways, there are must someone who make the decision by thorough thinking and they do well prepared to get married.
No matter what a motivation is to drive a teenager into marriage, having baby accidentally or simply because they want to settle down with his or her Mr. or Mr. Right, they must have sex after getting married. Now, I want to talk about the issue with some science-supported evidence. The report shows that if a woman who has sex experiences too early, underage, the chances that she get caners like cervical cancer increase, 2.5 times higher than do adult women. I addition, you are more likely to be barren than those who have sex later and do not infected by virus. Maybe it can explain the reason why the girl, in my annotation 1, who are eager to get pregnant and even take fertility drugs, keeps failing to have one however hard she tries. She has sex at 12.
On an objective point of view, it seems to be inappropriate to get married too early. Maybe they really fall in love with each other so madly and they can love the other whole their lives; however, without a healthy body, it is more difficult for them. We cannot focus on the feelings at a moment; instead we should think further and see with a point of view in the long term. After all, marriage is not that easy. After going into it, a life is not simply a person’s own. It relates to his or her companion and their children. They need to take responsibility. There is no excuse to avoid and to evade any trouble. Now that you are married, you are an adult. In spite of the fact that actually you are just a teenager. If one of you gets ill, the other needs to take care of the other. It is not an easy task at all. If a man really makes his wife get cervical cancer due to his impulse on of sex, he needs to pay a lot to make up the mistake he made when he was too young.
Before getting a teen marriage and discussing whether teen marriage is proper or not, take healthy concern into close consideration. Once into marriage, things become complicated. No longer something simple like I love you and you love me exists.
Reflection 1
Since I start writing the issue about teen marriage, I have been confused. Although I know the general direction, I have no idea about my thesis, I cannot find my point. Each time when we are asked to hand in a new annotation, I feel very depressed and nervous because it is very hard to find any source in the vague issue without a specific direction.
My previous annotations are all about the reason why teenagers want to get married at such young age. Recently, there is a news that if we should modify women’s marriageable age from 16 to 18 in Taiwan. After knowing it, I start to reflect the hot issue. Should we change the legal age to get married? I see many legislators against the proposal; however, what motivating them to say those words seems that they just want to oppose without any reason. Although I was against teen marriage before, I cannot agree with their points of view. Their emotional and careless statement on supporting teen marriage may make immature teenagers misunderstand the meaning of marriage and thus encourage them to get married.
After having the aforementioned thought I find I can discuss objective factors that whether teen marriage is proper or not. After all, if I keep opposing invariably with my personal opinions instead of giving supportive evidence such as the hygiene, health and so on to view it, I will never hit the point. In addition, the cases I cited before were American. It may be too partial to regard the thing in a general eye.
When making a law, legislators tend to support or oppose it with a lot of political concerns. They are not those who really face the problem. Actually, those who have teen marriage most come from lower social status or their original family have some domestic problem. However, the disadvantaged have few accesses to make the society know what they really want. Without in-depth understanding their situation and make a decision by central-minded thoughts will harm them.
Finally, I decide to narrow down my issue to” is 18 proper to marry? ”, and look for other countries law, knowing why they make such a decision. It may differ from country to country with different reasons. After taking and reflecting their example, I can generalize something that can apply to Taiwan. Besides, I can find some sources that expose the real corner of teen couples, maybe their stories, the difficulties they face generalize and how their attitude toward marriage after getting married. Additionally, take some moral prospective into discussion. Does it can really equalize rights between male and female to lift woman’s marriageable age to 18?
My previous annotations are all about the reason why teenagers want to get married at such young age. Recently, there is a news that if we should modify women’s marriageable age from 16 to 18 in Taiwan. After knowing it, I start to reflect the hot issue. Should we change the legal age to get married? I see many legislators against the proposal; however, what motivating them to say those words seems that they just want to oppose without any reason. Although I was against teen marriage before, I cannot agree with their points of view. Their emotional and careless statement on supporting teen marriage may make immature teenagers misunderstand the meaning of marriage and thus encourage them to get married.
After having the aforementioned thought I find I can discuss objective factors that whether teen marriage is proper or not. After all, if I keep opposing invariably with my personal opinions instead of giving supportive evidence such as the hygiene, health and so on to view it, I will never hit the point. In addition, the cases I cited before were American. It may be too partial to regard the thing in a general eye.
When making a law, legislators tend to support or oppose it with a lot of political concerns. They are not those who really face the problem. Actually, those who have teen marriage most come from lower social status or their original family have some domestic problem. However, the disadvantaged have few accesses to make the society know what they really want. Without in-depth understanding their situation and make a decision by central-minded thoughts will harm them.
Finally, I decide to narrow down my issue to” is 18 proper to marry? ”, and look for other countries law, knowing why they make such a decision. It may differ from country to country with different reasons. After taking and reflecting their example, I can generalize something that can apply to Taiwan. Besides, I can find some sources that expose the real corner of teen couples, maybe their stories, the difficulties they face generalize and how their attitude toward marriage after getting married. Additionally, take some moral prospective into discussion. Does it can really equalize rights between male and female to lift woman’s marriageable age to 18?
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Annotation2-15 Year Old has had sex OVER 300 Times!!
Source:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRdJ49ItMnc
In this TV show, the 15-year-old girl has a lot of sex experience which is about 300 times. Her mom even witnessed her sex scene. However, she did not feel guilty at all; instead, she slammed the door in her mom’s face and asked her to leave her alone. The more astonishing thing is that her mom finds that she collects many children’s toys in her closet. At the same time people feeling shocked, it explains why such a young girl is oversexed. Her behaviors are driven by the desire of becoming a mom, having her own child.
It is a lot of women’s plan or dream to have a lovely home and a cute baby. Sounds like the most normal and blithest thing in the world. But when a teenage girl has the kind of notion and put it into practice seriously, it may be something. Although these young girls may say they are mature enough and think those who discourage them from having babies do not know them at all. They are just a group of arrogant old fart, always want to instill their clichéd and out-of-date notion to them.
However, do they really as mature as they think themselves? The girl in the talk show has already had countless sexes without any protection. Does she know how thee consequence may be? Bringing up a child without knowing his dad is not that miserable, but what if she is infected with AIDS or venereal disease and contaminates her own innocent kids? It is very irresponsible behavior. In addition, she does not even know how to be a good daughter, shouting at her mom, and do everything heartbreaking to her how can she assert she will be a good mother.
By the way, I make an assumption that the girl is very childish. As we can see easily that the girl is a white, but her accent is so strange that we have some difficulty to get what she say. The way her mom speaks is just like average white people so maybe she tries to imitate black’s accent. She thinks that talk like a black is very cool, but, in fact, I think it is the silliest thing. It not only makes her sound like a duck but expose her immature thought.
The TV show looks fake; however, real or not, in some degree, it reflects our society problem. Both the rates of teen marriage and teen pregnancy are gradually growing wherever in the USA or other countries. It is true that we cannot compare today’s situation with 50 years ago since the whole condition is totally different. Young man and lady get ripe earlier physically today, but it doesn’t necessarily mean our mind can follow the high-speed change in our body. On the contrary, it may do harm to immature teenagers.
In this TV show, the 15-year-old girl has a lot of sex experience which is about 300 times. Her mom even witnessed her sex scene. However, she did not feel guilty at all; instead, she slammed the door in her mom’s face and asked her to leave her alone. The more astonishing thing is that her mom finds that she collects many children’s toys in her closet. At the same time people feeling shocked, it explains why such a young girl is oversexed. Her behaviors are driven by the desire of becoming a mom, having her own child.
It is a lot of women’s plan or dream to have a lovely home and a cute baby. Sounds like the most normal and blithest thing in the world. But when a teenage girl has the kind of notion and put it into practice seriously, it may be something. Although these young girls may say they are mature enough and think those who discourage them from having babies do not know them at all. They are just a group of arrogant old fart, always want to instill their clichéd and out-of-date notion to them.
However, do they really as mature as they think themselves? The girl in the talk show has already had countless sexes without any protection. Does she know how thee consequence may be? Bringing up a child without knowing his dad is not that miserable, but what if she is infected with AIDS or venereal disease and contaminates her own innocent kids? It is very irresponsible behavior. In addition, she does not even know how to be a good daughter, shouting at her mom, and do everything heartbreaking to her how can she assert she will be a good mother.
By the way, I make an assumption that the girl is very childish. As we can see easily that the girl is a white, but her accent is so strange that we have some difficulty to get what she say. The way her mom speaks is just like average white people so maybe she tries to imitate black’s accent. She thinks that talk like a black is very cool, but, in fact, I think it is the silliest thing. It not only makes her sound like a duck but expose her immature thought.
The TV show looks fake; however, real or not, in some degree, it reflects our society problem. Both the rates of teen marriage and teen pregnancy are gradually growing wherever in the USA or other countries. It is true that we cannot compare today’s situation with 50 years ago since the whole condition is totally different. Young man and lady get ripe earlier physically today, but it doesn’t necessarily mean our mind can follow the high-speed change in our body. On the contrary, it may do harm to immature teenagers.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Marriageable Age
In the United States, all but one state, Nebraska, requires that a couple be 18 in order to marry without parental permission. Although a few states will waive this requirement if there is a pregnancy, teenage couples may still have to have court approval. A few states allow pregnant teens or teens who have already had a child to get married without parental consent but these couples must have permission from a court. Even with parental approval, many states require court approval when a person is 16 years old or less.
In Taiwan, legal age to get married for men is 18, and women is 16.The underage need parents’ approval.
In Taiwan, legal age to get married for men is 18, and women is 16.The underage need parents’ approval.
Revised Annotation 1
Source: Teenagers who are eager to get Married Tyra
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq_YMzx3M10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJZBviaMfE4
In the clip, we can see the 15-year-old Kaitlin and 18-year-old Ryan want to get married spontaneously. They don’t have a baby or be forced to do that, they just think they meet their Mr. and Mrs. Right and are mature enough to make the decision. However, I doubt if they are really mature. We can see their innocence or maybe to say childishness while talking to the anchorwoman. Many words sound ridiculous. It seems that they don’t know the seriousness of taking fertility drugs, and have no any opinion of money. All they know is: Oh, I love you so much that how can I live without you.
However, life is not as easy as we see. When one is young, he/she always takes things too simple and perfect, not even mention when it comes to love. Teenagers who tend to be impulsive and arrogant are often overwhelmed by love. They are reluctant to hear others’ advice and make many decisions without thinking twice. As they age and their strong love fade, reality’s true colors take place. Every single trivia that never is a thing when they were deep in love may be a trouble to them now. They may suffer a lot from problems in all directions like financial affairs, deterioration of feelings to their companions, and if they have babies, education would be a big deal, too.
If teen couples decide to complete a home with total consideration and they are sure they have the ability to face all consequences after marriage by themselves, of course it is okay to marry at such young age. Because girls always have a fantasy of falling in love with her prince charming and live happily ever after. However, I still think the majority of young husbands and wives are not qualified enough.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq_YMzx3M10
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJZBviaMfE4
In the clip, we can see the 15-year-old Kaitlin and 18-year-old Ryan want to get married spontaneously. They don’t have a baby or be forced to do that, they just think they meet their Mr. and Mrs. Right and are mature enough to make the decision. However, I doubt if they are really mature. We can see their innocence or maybe to say childishness while talking to the anchorwoman. Many words sound ridiculous. It seems that they don’t know the seriousness of taking fertility drugs, and have no any opinion of money. All they know is: Oh, I love you so much that how can I live without you.
However, life is not as easy as we see. When one is young, he/she always takes things too simple and perfect, not even mention when it comes to love. Teenagers who tend to be impulsive and arrogant are often overwhelmed by love. They are reluctant to hear others’ advice and make many decisions without thinking twice. As they age and their strong love fade, reality’s true colors take place. Every single trivia that never is a thing when they were deep in love may be a trouble to them now. They may suffer a lot from problems in all directions like financial affairs, deterioration of feelings to their companions, and if they have babies, education would be a big deal, too.
If teen couples decide to complete a home with total consideration and they are sure they have the ability to face all consequences after marriage by themselves, of course it is okay to marry at such young age. Because girls always have a fantasy of falling in love with her prince charming and live happily ever after. However, I still think the majority of young husbands and wives are not qualified enough.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Issue Paper 2nd Draft
“Teen marriage” the term which has existed for hundreds of years is being paid close attention recently since more and more teenagers get married. Unlike our last generation whose condition is different from nowadays, we grow up in a rapid-changing and relative wealthy environment and we don’t necessarily need to complete a home, giving birth to babies at a young age to help support the family. So the situation is totally different. Regardless of those who are forced to get marry, there are still a lot people do that because pregnancy and voluntariness.
The youth are confronted with a predicament. They think they are mature enough to deal with everything. There is no problem that they cannot solve. The magic of hormone takes over rationality when a charming opposite sex shows up. Then, these young couples think they meet the right one at the right time, and they are madly in love with each other. Nothing and no one can throw obstacles in their way. Once they think the “feelings” are good, they just make the crucial decision in their lives at that very moment, blinding to obstacle they may run into the near future since love is so strong and omnipotent. Ironically, many men and women at the proper age to build a family always hesitate to marry. The reason is simple. There is too much responsibility needed to be shouldered after getting married. The two groups of people have very opposite attitude toward marriage. It is obvious that the latter have more life experience and know how cruel reality is; however teenagers always take things too easily.
Besides the adolescents’ natural instinct, environment plays an important role that influences their thoughts a lot. The prevalence of mass media and the internet intensify their arrogance. Much misconception is conveyed by celebrities. Teenagers who are still too young to judge a thing if it is right or wrong want to imitate their idols, no matter how silly the behavior it is. In some degree, some boys and girls are affected by them, thinking how romantic and wonderful it is to get married. But who knows if under the famous happy couples’ wonderful marriage hides some difficulty. Young lovers tend to see the good side of a thing and always ignore the bad. When they are really in trouble, they try to convince themselves to believing in love first. Unfortunately, the result often doom to divorce.
Marriage is not as simple as we see it. There are many difficulties teen couples will need to face, such as financial affair and children’s education etc. Although still a lot of happy and successful little husbands and wives, we cannot deny the hard situation they may encounter.
Note: 1. the background of young couples
2. the problem in their marriage
3.their motive of marriage
The youth are confronted with a predicament. They think they are mature enough to deal with everything. There is no problem that they cannot solve. The magic of hormone takes over rationality when a charming opposite sex shows up. Then, these young couples think they meet the right one at the right time, and they are madly in love with each other. Nothing and no one can throw obstacles in their way. Once they think the “feelings” are good, they just make the crucial decision in their lives at that very moment, blinding to obstacle they may run into the near future since love is so strong and omnipotent. Ironically, many men and women at the proper age to build a family always hesitate to marry. The reason is simple. There is too much responsibility needed to be shouldered after getting married. The two groups of people have very opposite attitude toward marriage. It is obvious that the latter have more life experience and know how cruel reality is; however teenagers always take things too easily.
Besides the adolescents’ natural instinct, environment plays an important role that influences their thoughts a lot. The prevalence of mass media and the internet intensify their arrogance. Much misconception is conveyed by celebrities. Teenagers who are still too young to judge a thing if it is right or wrong want to imitate their idols, no matter how silly the behavior it is. In some degree, some boys and girls are affected by them, thinking how romantic and wonderful it is to get married. But who knows if under the famous happy couples’ wonderful marriage hides some difficulty. Young lovers tend to see the good side of a thing and always ignore the bad. When they are really in trouble, they try to convince themselves to believing in love first. Unfortunately, the result often doom to divorce.
Marriage is not as simple as we see it. There are many difficulties teen couples will need to face, such as financial affair and children’s education etc. Although still a lot of happy and successful little husbands and wives, we cannot deny the hard situation they may encounter.
Note: 1. the background of young couples
2. the problem in their marriage
3.their motive of marriage
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Peer Response to Layla
I find a survey when i look for resource for my own paper. I think maybe it can help you to know how those adopted children will be treated by others. Teenagers are very sensitive and care about others' opinion. If their friends don't agree with homosexual parents, they may be influenced by them and thus feel ashamed to be adopted by homosexual parents.
Teen Approval of Gay Adoption
Do you think that homosexual couples should or should not have
the legal right to adopt a child?
Asked of teens aged 13-17
Yes, should 51%
No, should not 46%
If you want to see the whole context, you can go on EBSCOhost and search: Teens Split on Gay Adoption Issue. I hope it can help you:)
Teen Approval of Gay Adoption
Do you think that homosexual couples should or should not have
the legal right to adopt a child?
Asked of teens aged 13-17
Yes, should 51%
No, should not 46%
If you want to see the whole context, you can go on EBSCOhost and search: Teens Split on Gay Adoption Issue. I hope it can help you:)
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Peer Rrspone to Annie
The vedio is very heartbreaking. I never really think about the circumstances that street dogs encounter after being caught before seeing the clip. However, what can we do to improve the situation? It must need a lot of money to take good care of them; but sadly, in modern society, there are countless people suffering from impoverishment. And the budget for walefare is tight. How to balance between human rights and animal rights. Life is priceless no matter human's or animal's, but we need to make decision. It is quite impotent to deal with the stuation. Maybe you can propose some smart idea to solve the problem.
Peer Response to Flora
I've seen the movie since I was a little girl. I know what you want to express throug the movie clip to explain dysfuntional family. However, I think you can use other real case to support your main idea. After all, the movie is not adapted from a true story. Of course it is a good annotation, but you can add others to make it more persuasive.
A lot of teenagers who go astry are from dysfunctional family. No one teaches them what is wrong or right. Many irresponsible pareents give birth to their kids, and then leave them alone to grow up. But This can also happen to whom you support to have the right to bring up their own children. Many of those who are mental deficiency cannot even take care of theirselves and need their old parents to take care of them. I think they may run into some problem raising their own kids. And the kids may somehow become a burden to their family. Love is indeed a crucial part to raise childrens; however. it cannot conquer everything.
A lot of teenagers who go astry are from dysfunctional family. No one teaches them what is wrong or right. Many irresponsible pareents give birth to their kids, and then leave them alone to grow up. But This can also happen to whom you support to have the right to bring up their own children. Many of those who are mental deficiency cannot even take care of theirselves and need their old parents to take care of them. I think they may run into some problem raising their own kids. And the kids may somehow become a burden to their family. Love is indeed a crucial part to raise childrens; however. it cannot conquer everything.
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Annotation 1-Teenagers who are eager to get Married
The Tyra Banks Show invited a teenage girl to talk about her attitude toward teen marriage, because the issue has been paid close attention recently. More and more teenagers, no matter in the USA or other modern countries, want to get married. Other people may have a stereotype that the reason why these kids choose to marry is simply because there is no other choice left for them, they have babies. That is indeed a main cause of resulting to the getting-high rate of teen marriage; however, there are still motives that bring about the phenomenon. In 15-year old Kaitlin’s case, she wants to get married since she” thinks” she finds the “right” one to spend the rest of her life with. The young engaged girl is not reluctant to make such an important decision, unlike those who are. She tries hard to get a baby and even take fertility drugs.
The clip of the talk show makes me shocked. I start to ponder whether teen marriage is good or not. If I was asked whether I were for teen marriage or not in junior-high age, I might say yes. After all, to a young girl, finding your prince charming is so lucky and romantic. Almost each girl has this kind of fantasy. However, with days passing by, I gradually doubt it. Though I am also a teenager, when I hear what the girl, who is only 4 years younger than I, says, I feel it is totally ridiculous. She does have sex with someone and have feminine sexual character. But does not necessarily mean she is mature in mind. We can find she is still very innocent, or maybe we can say childish when she talks. She is happy when she plays Spongebob vedio game with her fiancé. She imitates what her idol, Britney Spears who is a bad girl in average people’s mind, does. And she is proud to do a better job than her just because she gets married at a younger age. She does not know how silly she is. She only sees the good sides of marriages, and is blinded by sexual happiness. Once she gets old and is no longer addicted to sex, she will be overwhelmed by reality. There are too many things needed to be taken into consideration when referring to marriage. Without basic economic supports and mature minds, how you can say that you are ready to become a wife and a mother.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
Issue Paper 1st Draft
In ancient times, even in my grandmother’s generation, people, then, need a lot of labor to help farming and supporting the family. Thus it was a common phenomenon of teen marriage all over the world in that time. Nowadays, the world is changing into the M society. On the two sides of the curve point at not richness nor poorness but married youthfully or not married. When every high-developed country is worrying about the decreased rate of new-born babies and the increasing rate of aging of population, they seem to forget the other group, little couples.
These teen couples are not only in the third world but also in civilized societies. There are many factors that cause teen marriages. Many people may think that the young have no other choice left to choose because they already have had babies. However, it is not that easy to make a conclusion. Pregnancy do is a main reason leading to enter home lives but not the only one. One of my friends is engaged and will marry next year. At first, I think she must lose her mind so that she makes the stupid decision. As the matter of fact, I do not think she and her fiancé will not lead a happy marriage and they must end up in divorce. I am against teen marriage.
One time, I ran into an Indian guy in a chatting room named Omegle. After he knew I am 19 year old girl, the first question he asked me is: Are you married? When the three words popped up on the screen, what I thought was he must be a strange, but later I realized that in India, many girls are forced to get marry when they are 12 or 13. After marrying her husband, they cannot go to school anymore and they need to give up almost everything. I take pity on those poor girls and surf the internet to find some information, finding a surprising statistics. ” In India, where teenagers are sometimes forced to marry by arrangement, more than 90% of these marriages will not end in divorce.”
I start to think about if teen marriage is good. Although most of teen couples have a lot of problems like financial affair and education of themselves and their children that they need to deal with, many of them still live happily than those who own “regular” marriage or single lives. Maybe they just meet the right at younger age. Everyone has their own life to live. If they are satisfied and happy with their marriage, how we can judge and criticize them by our personal opinion. It is a dilemma to say which is right and the other is wrong.
These teen couples are not only in the third world but also in civilized societies. There are many factors that cause teen marriages. Many people may think that the young have no other choice left to choose because they already have had babies. However, it is not that easy to make a conclusion. Pregnancy do is a main reason leading to enter home lives but not the only one. One of my friends is engaged and will marry next year. At first, I think she must lose her mind so that she makes the stupid decision. As the matter of fact, I do not think she and her fiancé will not lead a happy marriage and they must end up in divorce. I am against teen marriage.
One time, I ran into an Indian guy in a chatting room named Omegle. After he knew I am 19 year old girl, the first question he asked me is: Are you married? When the three words popped up on the screen, what I thought was he must be a strange, but later I realized that in India, many girls are forced to get marry when they are 12 or 13. After marrying her husband, they cannot go to school anymore and they need to give up almost everything. I take pity on those poor girls and surf the internet to find some information, finding a surprising statistics. ” In India, where teenagers are sometimes forced to marry by arrangement, more than 90% of these marriages will not end in divorce.”
I start to think about if teen marriage is good. Although most of teen couples have a lot of problems like financial affair and education of themselves and their children that they need to deal with, many of them still live happily than those who own “regular” marriage or single lives. Maybe they just meet the right at younger age. Everyone has their own life to live. If they are satisfied and happy with their marriage, how we can judge and criticize them by our personal opinion. It is a dilemma to say which is right and the other is wrong.
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