Category Archives: Society

Should 13 Year Olds Get The Pill?

Children, Society

There has been a lot of talk over the last few days in the UK about letting 13 year olds getting hold of the Pill over the counter from chemists without a prescription. Many groups are not happy about this and are calling for it not to happen.

So, do you think that this is a good idea? On the one hand it may mean that there are less teenage pregnancies as the girls will be protected when having sex. However, there is no escaping the fact that it is illegal for girls under the age of 16 to have sex.

But, if these girls are already having sex then shouldn’t they be able to get protection from becoming pregnant? If girls think that they cannot get hold of the Pill easily then they may not bother with contraception.

One thought that comes to mind is that although 13 sounds young for girls to be having sex, we must remember that for hundreds of years, girls were routinely married off at this kind of age and in some countries this was the norm. So they would have been having sex at a young age. In fact the country singer Loretta Lynn was married at the age of 13 as one example.

There are many contradictions in the legal system that seem strange in terms of what you can do at what age but there will always be arguments about what age girls should be legally allowed to have sex at. of course it is the parents that make the laws and they are unlikely to want their children to be sexually active at such an age.

But, if this did take place it would be interesting to see if this did chance the statistics on teenage pregnancies. Are the girls that are getting pregnant mature enough to go and get the pill for themselves or is it more down to a one-off moment of carelessness?

Wozzilroy – The New Celeb Sports Couple!

Society, Sports, , , ,

So with the demise of the old celebrity couples including this week the split of Ashton Kucher and Demi Moore, our appetite for more celebrity couples is satiated with the hottest new couple (in the sports world in any event) that is made up of the world’s number 1 female tennis player and the world’s number two golfer.

‘Wozzilroy’ as Rory McIlroy and Caroline Wozniacki have been dubbed by friends and fans alike (in fact, was the term invented by Graeme McDowell when he tweeted this picture of them recently?) have not been a couple for that long as Rory only split up with his long term girlfriend earlier in the year.

Wozzilroy
Rory Mcilroy and Caroline Wozniacki - Sports Hottest Couple

But in recent weeks they have been seen together a lot and are making no secret of their romance. With the power of Twitter these days it is possible to know what is going on as it happens, especially when the celebs themselves tweet the news!

Caroline has recently had her first golf lesson with Justin Parsons at the Butch Harmon School of Golf in Dubai and apparently Rory said that she didn’t do too badly! it certainly seems like love when they are trying out each other’s sports!

At the end of September Rory gave Caroline a golf club with the word ‘Wozzilroy’ engraved on it and she tweeted a picture for all to see:

Wozniacki tweeted a picture of the club that McIlroy gave her inscribed with 'Wozzilroy'

Bookies are already laying short odds on the couple becoming engaged, getting married or having a baby on the next year or so but let’s face it, McIlroy is only 22 and Wozniacki is only 21 so it is really early days for any of that kind of speculation!

Top 5 Halloween Costumes 2011

Entertainment, Society,

So this year there have been a few unusual Halloween costumes popping up in addition to the standard and everyday Halloween costumes. So I would like to give you my top 5 Halloween Costumes for 2011.

1. Often Halloween costumes follow the trends and this year is no different. With the release of The Smurfs movie starring Katy Perry as the voice of Smurfette, the Smurfette Halloween Costume as become one of the biggest selling costumes of the year, if not topping the list. It is one costume that is quite easy to create and to do a basic version on with say some blue face paint and a white hat or blue stockings – check out this article on the Smurfette Halloween costume for info on where to get these accessories.

2. Another big seller for this year which has come about due to a certain person’s antics over the year, is the Charlie Sheen Halloween costume. You can get full head masks of the ex-two and a Half Men actor or just shirts and a face mask.

3. With the new TV series just launched, the Pan Am Halloween costume is another one that is going to be popular this year – choose from pilot or stweardess in these sexy outfits.

4. Or, to take on the popular game/app, you can get some great Angry Birds Halloween costumes – whether you are looking for costumes for adults or kids these will go down a treat!

5. I wanted to throw in a couple of traditional costumes for my number 5, particularly for the children – there are the kid’s pumpkin costumes and for the girls the princess Halloween costumes.

No doubt next year we will also be on the look out for something new and trending in the Halloween costume arena so we will have to wait and see who fits the bill on that. In the meantime these are my top 5 Halloween costumes for this year.

 

 

 

Prince William and Kate Middleton

Society,

Ever since the lavish wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton on 29th April 2011, speculation comes and goes as to how long it will take for Kate and William to announce that they are expecting their first child.

In the early days there were reports of Kate (or the Duchess of Cambridge as she is now known) ordering supplies of food that were high in folic acid, but chances are that she is more likely to take a multivitamin containing folic acid than rely on foods alone, even if they were trying to get pregnant.

Kate has a resounding feeling of being very much like Princess Diana – quiet with understated beauty and with a definite empathy for visiting those less fortunate. it seems that prince William has a gem of a wife and hopefully they can live slightly more out of the paparazzi firing line than his mother did. Already, now that the initial furore has died down, we don’t see quite so much about them as we did with Diana and that is good for them if nothing else.

Prince William has a day job and he gets on with that, in amongst the official duties that they both have to carry out.  Hopefully they can keep living their relatively normal lives without too much intrusion from the press, and then once they are settled and ready to give us any good news, there will certainly be more celebrations all round.