Pregnancies & Transmitted Diseases on the Rise Among Teens

[Shayesta]

Anything could be a reason for teenage pregnancies; Bad parenting, wrong friends, media influence, yearning to know what the feeling of being with a man is like, etcetera. The only person who can stop teenage pregnancy is the female individual herself. She can choose whether her desires takes her over, or her sense? Of course parents should keep an eye on their children and be aware of what their kids are up to and indeed good parenting plays a huge role, but sometimes despite of all the love and care kids go on the wrong path because they had rather make their friends/boyfriend happy than their parents.

These things don't happen in West only, I have heard people complain about this in Pekhawer, in Punjab and even in Kabul. Only difference in West is that those kids can't be oppressed here in the West. I think it's their personal lives and we shouldn't judge why they do these things, because if they consider themselves Muslims and yet do these things then it's them who have to answer Him on the judgement day, not me or you. But what I am worried about is the next generation, especially since Islamic events in more and more places are being banned, it's possible next generation starts sharing the common Western thoughts regarding Muslims and our culture. What will happen then? How we gonna cope with that?

[Shayesta]

^ I know, we can't dream of keeping up our culture even after tens of generations. The day we decided we want to move to West and stay there permanently was the day we should have accepted anything can happen and anything can change. Except for my siblings, all my cousins were born and raised in West and the oldest one is fifteen years old, yet at least half of them have finished Quran-e-Sharif and one of my cousins managed to convert two of his friends to Islam. I am very happy to see even after two generations we have maintained our religion and culture, but only Allah Subhana Wa Tallah knows what's gonna happen generation after?

But for some reasons, I have got my faith in those Afghans who are planning to keep their culture. There was this Khosti family in Holland who had lived there for thirty years but seriously, you couldn't tell! Mostly it's Afghans themselves who decide to act like an 'Europayi'.