Knocked up and out!

Just writing impromptu today. Didn't think over this thing much. But I thought I must put it down before it vaporizes from my memory space.
So they finally accepted that they are not yet prepared to give sex-education to kids studying in Maharashtra board. Of course, they blame it on the kids, saying they are not 'mature' enough to handle SUCH A SENSITIVE issue! Sensitive my ....!
But no use taking my frustration out on these intellectually challenged parents and teachers, for they themselves haven't got it the right way.
You might wonder why should I be frustrated. I can send my kids to CBSE/ICSE schools or educate them at home about certain facts of life. By stepping back from its tentative plans to introduce formal sex-education in schools, the board simply re-enforced how retro our education system is. But there is a reason I take it personally.
Little kids keep coming to my hospital with various complaints. Little kids from orphanages. They are referred to as Ashram babies. But you don't have to look into their files or even the typical printed rugs they are rapped in to make out they don't have families. You just look at them and you know. They are emotionally deprived. They never show stranger-anxiety, an important milestone in a 'normal' child's development. They'd look at you when they are hungry, for they don't know the concept of a mother. They have been fed by various faces. They suck on their thumbs, for food is always poured into their mouths with metal. They don't talk. They walk late too. They raise their arms begging for a hug when you go to them.
I won't elaborate how much emotionally stirred you can by these things.
But it is a fact that children need tactile stimulation for their growth in early years. That, apart from proper food, hygiene, health-care and emotional stimuli. Deprived of these basic supports, they fall prey to majority of illnesses in their most virulent forms. If they make it to their second birthday, they still remain intellectually and emotionally under-developed.
And where do they come from? Some silly teenager who never had an opportunity to know about her body, falls in 'love' with a crook 10 years elder to her and gets knocked up. She is so silly that its only after her tummy starts showing up and women of the house-hold confront her, she comes to know that she's pregnant! Then the whole family either disowns her or simply asks her to get rid of the life in her without letting the society know. Its too late now. So she brings the unwanted life out into the world and never sees its face again.
If only she knew that making love is making babies and you can prevent the latter by some very simple precautions, if only she knew that unsafe sex may get her pregnant and she can still do something about it, if only she knew that the life she created is her responsibility and no matter what the society says, she loves it too much to abandon it, her child would know the security and love of family.
And who stopped her from knowing it all? The teachers who know everything, but aren't comfortable talking about it. Those goddamn hypocrites are creating orphans every day!
They ought to understand that its the BMC schools that provide education to the lowest economic class of children. Girls seldom continue their education beyond 8th or 10th std. Richer kids have access to various learning material and they know it. They may turn into pervs, but they at least know. Sex education or shall we say 'family-life education' is the need of the hour. We are already over-populated and the unwanted pregnancies symbolize a saying in hindi- garibi mein ata geela! We cannot afford luxury of comfort. These girls must be told where they came from. The knowledge-attitude-practices gap, so called KAP GAP cannot be closed by postponing introduction of sex-education in BMC schools.
For the sake of the innocent lives who never had a say in the decisions of their existence, lets just tell the kids...