MANDI'S BLOG

8 mar 2012

Gay adoption

There’s a controversy about whether gay couples should or shouldn’t be able to adopt. This controversy is caused because some people see homosexual couples as something strange.

Those who are for gay adoption say, firstly, that adoption is necessary around the world and even more in gay couples, because they aren’t able to procreate. Even though they can’t have children, they are able to form a normal family like heterosexual couples. What’s more, children that grow with homosexual families are usually more concerned with human rights and social problems, and they become better people. This is caused by the special position of their parents in society. And last but not least, there are a lot of children growing without a mother, and they don’t have relevant problems.

People who are against gay adoption claim that gays haven’t got enough sense of responsibility to create a family, because a family is formed by a father and a mother. Besides, they say that a child needs the attention of a mother to grow up without problems, because in nature all the animals have a father and a mother. Searching other arguments, people say that homosexual families don’t have the same structure as heterosexual couples, and this may cause a perturbation in the child, that could be socially rejected at school, for instance.

To sum up, even though gay couples are still seen like something unusual, they are able to form a family like other couples. Consequently, they have the right to adopt children. Moreover, children can develop more human qualities like being sensitive.

7 mar 2012

GAY ADOPTION

Nowadays the number of gay couples is increasing. Furthermore, lots of them are interested in adopting a child. This topic is causing a great debate amongst many people. There are lots of arguments for and against.

On the one hand some people think that a gay couple can bring up, adopt and look after a child as successfully as an heterosexual couple, because adopting is a good thing lots of people do, as they give children a home or someone to love them. What's more, children with gay parents are just as happy as a child with a father and mother, because they have always lived with two fathers and they don't realize which the difference is.

On the other hand, other people think that gay couples shouldn't be able to adopt a child because he or she could feel different to the rest. They also think gay upbringing is unnatural. Consequently that child could become gay when he grows up. Furthermore his classmates will probably laugh at him at school.

In conclusion, I think gay couples should be able to adopt a child. It might be difficult fort that child to accept it at the beginning but in time he or she will get used to it. I also think a father can play a role of a mother and make that child feel as happy as any other.

Teenagers' abortion

Teenager's abortion in Spain has been a highly discussed topic since last year. Because there are a lot of ideologies. Do you prefer killing a baby? or continuing with your teenagers's life?

Firstly, when you are pregnant you can't study and with abortion you can continue your career or ma be your school education; secondly, when you have a baby, you can't go out with your friends at night or get drunk for exemple but if you have an abortion you can go out and continue with your teenager life and thirdly, when you're a pregnant teenager people laught at you, criticis you and this makes you sad.

But the disavantatges of teenagers' abortion is that you kill a baby, a person and you're nobody to kill a person, and also if you abort many times, you won't be pregnant again. Furthemor, when you have a problem and it's caused by you, you're responsible and you must be consequent.

In my opinion when you have an abortion, you have to think about what you've done but in my point of view you have to be more responsible and suffer the consequences and you got a bit muddled up. Because there are more options instead of having an abortion.

Ana Carretero

TEENAGER ABORTION

Teenager abortion is an issue which is being discussed by people nowadays. People argue and give their opinion about abortion and give arguments to proof whether it's moral or not.

On the one hand, people who think it's good for teenagers who are pregnants to have an abortion, give their arguments. Abortion is a way to avoid having phsycological. Girls who look at themselves in the mirror and see they are pregnants and they don't look like the other girls usually go mad. Moreover, they think and they are right, that ther will never have a normal life again. They will have to stay home looking after their baby while their friends are having fun in a disco. They can wear neither the same tight clothes nor big high heels (because they get exhausted). Furthermore, if they have had problems with their parents or have split up with the child's father because of the pregnancy, they fell lonely as they are alone in the world with their child. Then, they need money yo feed the child when he's born and they have to work in order to do this, so they are bound to leave high school.

On the other hand, people who are against say that they can have a variety of phsycological problems. Although they will not have problems with seeing themselves fat and ugly, they might have conscience problems. They won't fell well about what they've done and they will regret having had an abortion. In addition, abortion is considered as a murder and, therefore, a crime against a human being. They might also have physical problems such as losing the possibility of having children any more. And, if they have an abortion they mightn't be accepted by society because they can be seen like a kind of murderers.

To sum up, having an abortion can result in phsycological or physical problems or regrets but it can also help the pregnant girl to go on having her life and decide when she's ready to have a baby. In my opinion, abortion should be legal but it would be better if people used other methods instead.

6 mar 2012

GAY ADOPTION

Nowadays, lots of gay couples want to have a child, they want to be parents and to have a family, just like heterosexual couples. Adoption is the only way to do it, but is it ethical? Do they have the right to adopt?

On the one hand, some people think that it’s unethical because it’s not natural. People who are against say that if they can’t have a son or a daughter on their own, on the normal way, they shouldn’t be able to adopt one. Moreover, they say that they can’t educate a child well, because kids need a mother and a father, not only two parents of the same sex.

On the other hand, others say that a kid can be educated well by two mothers or fathers and even better than by “normal parents” because they will love him or her even more. People who are for think that if the parents are in love and can bring up a child, they should be able to do it. What’s more, there are so many children that don’t have a home and aren’t loved by their parents, or don’t even have parents. So it’s better to live with a gay couple.

In my opinion, I think that gay couples should be able to adopt. As I see it, they have the same right to have children than other couples, and they can be very good parents.

TEENAGER'S ABORTION

Nowadays, at least in

Spain

, It’s very easy to have an abortion because there is a special law that allows any woman to do it, no matter how old she is and, in cases of pregnant teenagers, parents don’t need to agree with their daughter’s decisions.

On the one hand, some people agree with the law because they think that economic problems or the mother’s age is a good reason to abort. Moreover, if there’s a risk for the child or the mother, there should be the chance to abort. Another point of controversy is that people who agree think that a foetus is not a life.

On the other hand, some people think that a foetus is a life and that it will be a person in the near future. They also think that if woman, especially teenagers, have got the chance to have an abortion, they do it many times and it has got negative effects on the economy of the country and on the “mother’s” health. The last but not least argument they gives is that everybody has got the right to live.

In my opinion, there should be a law to let women abort if there’s a risk for the mother’s life or she had been raped, but I don’t agree with abortion. Babies ought to be loved and have a good life, if parents can’t afford to have the baby, the best thing to do is give him or her in adoption, so that couples who can’t have babies and really want to, have got the chance to take care and love a baby.

TEENAGER ABORTION

Nowadays people have different ideas about this topic. Can teenagers decide about abortion? Can they have an abortion or not? Some people say that they can.

On the one hand teenagers are too young to know what they want to do with their lives, moreover, they can’t educate a child because their education hasn’t finished yet. What’s more, a baby changes your life and you have to stop doing some things that you like. Finally, some people think that when you have a baby you have to be responsible for him or her and a teenager doesn’t have the necessary independence.

On the other hand if a teenager opts to have an abortion they are destroying a life and they are going against the human rights, the rights of life. Then, teenagers have to think about their actions and be responsible for them. In other words, if you are old enough to have sexual relations you have to be old enough to be responsible for that. Finally, catholic people think that abortion is a murder and God is the only one who can decide about who can live and who can’t.

In my opinion abortion has to be a decision of oneself. You have to think about the pros and cons and draw a conclusion. But the decision is only yours, people can’t decide for you.

MOBILE PHONES AT HIGHSCHOOLS

Nowadays many students use mobile phones in schools to film, to play or for other activities. Mobile phones are incredible machines but they can be bad, for this reason people think that they should be forbidden at schools.

On the one hand, when you have an emergency in the school or you forget something in your house, you can phone home. What's more, if you need to search information for some homework you can use your mobile pthone because nowadays they have internet.

On the other hand many students spend too much time with mobile phones. Although mobile phones are being used for many good things, some students can use mobile phones to copy in the exams, therefore, with mobile phones they can film each other or the teacher. Due to these actions mobile phones can be dangerous.

In conclusion, mobile phones are useful machines in many places but at school they can be a distraction or even hazardous.

5 mar 2012

Teenager Abortion

There's a great discussion about an important topic, nowadays. We're talking about teenager abortion. Governments also have discussions about whether it should be legal or not. Here we're going to take an ethical or moral point of view. Like many other problems, there are people for and against.

On the one hand, people supporting teenager abortion claim that most teenagers aren't mature enough to take care of a baby, in fact they're still children. Furthermore, the baby would radically change their lives, nothing's the same with a baby, for example if you're in high school or something similar and your family doesn't have resources or time to help you, you'll probably have to leave your studies. Some experts also say that teenagers' bodies aren't prepared for giving birth, whether physically or psychologically.

On the other hand, people against teenager abortion sustain that if somebody is old enough to be pregnant, then is old (and mature) enough to have the baby. We should be responsible of what we've done. Then they also mention that teenager abortion, like every kind of abortion, is only another way to kill a human being, it's a murder. Finally, they try to give alternatives to abortion: such as adoption, precautions systems (in order not to be pregnant) or some kind of help to the ones who decide to have the baby. Abortion is not the only solution.

To sum up, it's a very difficult topic which will give us a lot of discussions and cause lots of polemics. I don't have a definite opinion, I wouldn't know what to do in a situation like that, it would give me a lot of headaches to decide what to do.

The mobile phone at highschools

Nowadays, the majority of the students in highschools have a mobile phone, and normally they take their mobile phone to school. Depending on the things they do during all the lessons, there are people for and against it.

On the one hand, there are some arguments for the issue. Firstly there are students, who take their mobile phone to school, and they only use it in case of emergency, like have some temperature or forget an important work at home, and they use it to call their parents. Another argument is that some students don’t use the mobile phone in class, only at breakfast, or during the period between lessons, and they don’t disturb any teachers, they make a good use of their mobile phone. And if the teachers usually take their mobile phones to school, why can’t students do it.

On the other hand there are some arguments against too. For example, in all schools there is a telephone which the students can use to call home in they have an emergency so they don’t need their mobile phones. Then other people say that nowadays the students normally use it during classes, because they are bored, or somebody has send an sms, which can make the teacher became angry. And the last argument they say is that some students use their mobile phone to copy during their exams, and it shouldn’t happen at highschools.

In my opinion, the students can bring their mobile phones at school, but they should make a good use of it. And they should be penalized if they use it in class, or use it for copying in an exam. But sometimes if you want to call your home, or your parents you can’t use the school telephone, because they only let you telephone someone if you are ill.

Teenager Abortion

Teenager abortion is when somebody who is less than 18-year-old stops her own pregnancy. It is, nowadays, a topic which causes lot of polemics on society.

People who are for teenager abortion defend it saying, for example, that nowadays young people haven't got enough sexual education. Another argument for is that legal custody of teenagers is for their parents too. Moreover, many people think that an abortion is not a murder depending on when it is done.

However, people who are against this topic say that despite being young, they can decide what to do with their boyfriend or girlfriend and they should be responsible for their acts. Furthermore another argument against it could be that if we allow teenagers to have an abortion, they won't take care of pregnancy prevention during their adult sexual lives. A lot of people who are against this topic are against abortion in general too because they think that abortion, being a murder, is an attempt to Human Rights and it's contrary to catholicism too.

To sum up, perhaps nowadays the arguments against it are more convincing because of the majority of laws and ideologies around the world.

In my opinion, teenager abortion should be allowed if parents of both teenagers (the boy and the girl) allow it, but not in all situations, depending on the age, healthy risk...
Finally I think that everybody is free to do whatever they want with his or her body, as Human Rights dictaminate. Furthermore Human Rights defend everybody's life and the beginning of "life" is considered by science to start at the 12nd - 14th weeks since pregnancy begun.