{"id":1310,"date":"2013-05-10T06:35:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T06:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web02.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters2\/archives\/1310"},"modified":"2015-05-24T07:07:08","modified_gmt":"2015-05-24T07:07:08","slug":"is-the-law-prohibiting-puppy-love-a-curse-or-a-blessing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/archives\/1310","title":{"rendered":"Is the law prohibiting puppy love a curse or a blessing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently, there has been a law enacted in Heilongjiang Province which bans acts of \u2018misconduct\u2019, including \u2018puppy love\u2019. \u00a0It arouses a lot of controversy. \u00a0Is this law a curse or a blessing?<\/span><\/p>\n

Teenagers usually fancy new and exciting things. \u00a0A romantic relationship of course is one of the things teens are interested in. \u00a0However, they may pay too much attention to it, struggling about how to deal with his or her lover and neglecting their school work. \u00a0Establishing such a law can definitely have a deterrent effect on teens not to focus on romance too much. \u00a0They can thus concentrate more at schools. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The puppy love fantasy also makes pre-marital sex more common among teens in recent decades. \u00a0There is more likelihood for adolescents to have sexual experience. \u00a0Teenage pregnancy is more likely to happen. \u00a0Banning puppy love can prevent teens from developing their romantic relationships. \u00a0It cuts down the probability for them to have pre-marital sex, let alone teenage pregnancy.<\/span><\/p>\n

On the other hand, being attracted by someone and falling in love with him\/her is a totally natural behaviour. \u00a0It is not under any conscious control. \u00a0In other words, it is a human instinct. \u00a0Enacting a law which prohibits a natural behaviour is irrational. \u00a0Teens cannot stop themselves from falling for someone. \u00a0It is unreasonable to punish them as they cannot help it.<\/span><\/p>\n

The law may also suppress teens interacting with the opposite sex as they may be afraid of being penalized. \u00a0It will affect the social life of teens. \u00a0They may not be able or become too shy to get along with the opposite sex in the workplace. \u00a0It will definitely affect their lives in the long run.<\/span><\/p>\n

To me, I object to this irrational law. \u00a0Encountering a lot of teens every day and being exposed to an environment with a lot of the opposite sex around for a long time, like schools, teenage romance is nearly inevitable. \u00a0How could the government set up a law which prohibits a human instinct? \u00a0Teenagers are usually rebellious. \u00a0They would rather follow their hearts, instead of obeying this irrational regulation. \u00a0Besides, it cannot eradicate the teenage pregnancy problem. \u00a0More education and promotion about safe sex is definitely a better way out in the long run.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently, there has been a law enacted in Heilongjiang Province which bans acts of \u2018misconduct\u2019, including \u2018puppy love\u2019. \u00a0It arouses a lot of controversy. \u00a0Is this law a curse or a blessing<\/span><\/p>

Teenagers usually fancy new and exciting things. \u00a0A romantic relationship of course is one of the things teens.........<\/span><\/p>Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":8474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","language-en","schoolyear-34"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3186,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1310\/revisions\/3186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carmelss.edu.hk\/buddingwriters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}