What does the sudden increase in the rate of abortions among underage girls tell us?

  According to the Beijing Morning Post, September 20, 2010, the number of underage girls having abortions in private hospitals in Beijing has increased by more than 50% since the end of summer vacation. While some may say that the number of abortions rose sharply because it was a holiday, it is an undeniable fact that the increasing proportion of abortions among underage girls has become an unspeakable but objective problem in Chinese society today. Hidden behind this is the trend that the rate of underage girls having sex is becoming higher and higher, and at younger and younger ages. According to Zhang Xiaoji, director of the China Population Education Center’s “Green Apple House,” the rate of premarital sex among minors in the best schools in Beijing is about 3 percent, but the rate of sex among minors can rise from 30 to 40 percent in good schools, to medium schools, and then to junior colleges, depending on the environment in which the children live. 40%.  The reason for this embarrassing social phenomenon is that people often consciously and unconsciously attribute it to the loss of morality, the lack of education and the failure of regulatory mechanisms. There is nothing wrong with this kind of generalization, and it can be called a “panacea” for all social ills, because in China’s rapid transition, various social conflicts and social phenomena can find some answers from the moral level, social level and institutional level. However, unfortunately, this kind of rough generalization is not helpful to the solution of the problem, because in the current China, the so-called moral level improvement and social system improvement can not be completed overnight. The author believes that only a generalization of causes based on the recognition of reality is more likely to provide a solution to the problem. Specifically to the sudden increase in the proportion of underage girls abortion on this matter, instead of hating the moral decline of society, the lack of mechanisms, education failure, lamenting the hearts of the people, the concept of sex is too open, why not actually in the sex safety education above some work.  It is undeniable that the proportion of underage girls abortion has increased rapidly, the fundamental reason is the influence of the vicious social climate. When the whole social atmosphere on sexual behavior over tolerance, when “laughing at the poor not laughing at prostitutes” ideology around the expression of people’s thinking, when the moral degradation of lowering people’s moral standards, the lowering of sexual behavior is bound to be the right thing to do. Rome was not built in a day, the social climate of the right source can not be achieved in a very short time. In addition, the lack of education and the absence of regulatory mechanisms and support mechanisms can not be achieved overnight. Faced with such a reality, since sexual behavior cannot be prohibited, since sexual behavior at a younger age is inevitable, the most urgent thing we need to do now is to provide scientific sex safety education to minors, improve their general knowledge of contraception, and reduce the physical and mental harm to them.  The reasons why underage girls choose abortion in private hospitals can be summarized into three aspects: one is the lack of awareness of body protection among underage girls, insufficient knowledge of safe sex and lack of minimum contraceptive measures. The second is a lack of awareness of the dangers of abortion. Many underage girls believe in the so-called “green abortion, 8 minutes to complete”, “ready to go, no hospitalization” advertising, thinking that abortion is a minor surgery, lack of the necessary contraceptive precautions. In fact, abortion is harmful to women’s health in many ways, it can cause a variety of complications including bleeding, infection, perforation, chronic pelvic inflammatory disease and even infertility, which has a great negative effect on women’s health and fertility. The third is the price factor. In addition, the choice of lower-priced medical abortion is more harmful to the body of young girls, the surface seems to be a minor surgery, ten minutes after the operation can get out of bed and walk, but not standardized surgical methods and the lack of adequate post-operative rehabilitation, will make the once done abortion The above reasons reflect the current situation in China.  The above analysis of the reasons reflects that the current sex safety education in China is not optimistic. Due to the deliberate avoidance and distortion of family education and school, the science of love and sex has become mysterious and ignorant, and the majority of China’s younger generation lacks the necessary understanding and prevention of sexual safety, resulting in a high incidence of physical and mental abortion. According to statistics, there are about 100 million women between the ages of 20 and 29 in China, and 27.3% of them have had abortions, with an abortion rate of about 62 per 1,000. such a high abortion rate is not only related to the lack of education on reproductive health and contraception, but also closely related to the lack of choosing the right contraceptive method. The data also shows that in China, about 13 million abortions are performed each year, not only in large numbers, but also without having children. Among them, women who do not have children account for about 22.9% to 42.7% of the total number of abortions. The main cause of abortion is the lack of contraception or the failure of contraception. (China News, February 19, 2009) So, what is a reasonable contraceptive? Ma Xiaonian, a famous sexologist and vice president of the Chinese Sex Society, said that effective contraceptive birth control methods such as short-acting pills, condoms, and intrauterine devices should be advocated. In particular, the short-acting oral contraceptive pill contains a very low dose of hormones and is highly reliable. It seems that choosing a reasonable contraceptive method is actually very simple and not as complicated as one might think. But why are there still so many underage girls choosing abortion? The author believes that the key lies in our lack of safe and effective preventive measures, and the reason behind this is the serious lack of sex education in our schools for a long time.  The reality is that although secondary schools offer physical health classes, but teachers basically skip over not to talk about it because they are worried about causing students to fall in love early; family education, the young boys and girls in adolescence, parents are deliberately avoiding or distorting, for fear that their children will be thinking about it and affect their studies. As a result, adolescent boys and girls, their access to sexual knowledge is mainly through the Internet, books and CDs, and obviously, these media contain a lot of pornographic content. The result is that the avoidance and taboo of sex has not only kept young people away from sex, but also contributed to the proliferation of sex at a younger age.  In “Beijingers in New York”, Wang Qiming is very dissatisfied and puzzled by the condoms given to students in American high schools, thinking that it is not a clear encouragement for students to have early sex. The principal shrugged at him and said that condoms were given out to best protect the students. When sex education was first introduced to teenagers in schools, many people did not understand and criticized it as encouraging students to have early sex, but it turns out that these fears were superfluous. The correct sex education for adolescents is conducive to their establishment of a good view of sex, early love and underage sex not only did not increase, but greatly reduced, the truth of which is not worth learning from us?  When early sexual maturity becomes a trend, when sexual behavior is unstoppable, when our society does not provide excellent moral standards and scientific school education, please be sensible and teach those young boys and girls more about sexual safety, so that they can learn to understand sex scientifically, to clarify the responsibility of love, and to protect themselves reasonably, not only for their own physical and mental health, but also for our happy and beautiful tomorrow, which should become This should become the general consensus of our society to protect minors!