Romance is a part of life and teenage romance is special in the sense that this is the time when you start feeling something special for someone. You start looking at that person mostly someone from your opposite sex so interesting, attractive and irresistible. Some of you will keep it secret because you are so nervous of being rejected.
Some of you will make advances on your own or ask a friend of yours to inform your most desirable target of your feelings. Teenage romance generally does not continue for long because of various reasons. Romance as such knows no barrier, no discrimination etc. and it is spontaneous.
Nevertheless first love remains etched in our minds whether we like it or not and carry it with us in our heart. Teenage romance is the first expression of love when the body writhes in desire of the fulfillment of new feelings where the heart and body wind together and lesser the supervision on the teenagers the more adventurous they are likely to be in their romantic rendezvous.
But the supervision of adults would not help much if the teenagers themselves are not made to feel responsible of their own acts and if they are not warned of the possible dangers in experimenting their new-found love.
Spending time together and being affectionate towards each other is okay but unprotected sexual love is dangerous for teenage girls. Girls are more affected by unplanned pregnancies and early pregnancies.
So teenagers need support to wade safely into adulthood. Strict supervision may lead them to hoodwink their guardians and indulge on unsafe and dangerous activities. Again this is the age of immense curiosity so it is always good to make them aware of the pros and cons of sexual romance.
Knowledge is strength, so it is the responsibility of the parents, community and school to educate children about sex and the greater rewards are important in life while sex can wait until it is time for it. For this we need to have local role models whose achievements would help teenagers follow the role models and in turn create a responsible society.
Why teenage pregnancy is unsafe? Why teenagers should postpone sex and that how one should avoid succumbing to peer pressure or pressure from partner to engage in sexual activity? Why abstinence should be observed until it is time to enjoy sex? What one should do if one has engaged in unsafe sex? That mistakes are human and that how one stop feeling guilty and avoid making further mistakes are something we need to help teenagers understand. They will know better what they should do if they are informed properly.
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