Violence against Girls
These are the scenarios they came up with:
Lerato is a 15 year old girl whose family does not have a lot of money. They can barely afford food for her, and her siblings, so her father decides that she must get married so that someone else will have to support her, and pay for all her things. She doesn't want to get married, and doesn't love the man, but she feels that she has to in order to be able to live a life in which she has lots of nice things.
Does Lerato have to marry this man?
What other choices does she have?
Are these decisions made by parents governed by culture or just personal?
At Thembi's school, a lot of the other girls have very nice cell phones and clothes, but Thembi's family can't afford nice things like this. It makes her feel left out and sad \. One day a much older man offers Thembi a new cell phone if she has sex with him. She wants this cell phones so badly the she does it, and from then on she has sex with him so that she can get lost of nice things. She doesn't love the man and she doesn't like having sex with him but the only way she can have the nice things is if she continues giving him what he wants. The bad thing is, she can't decide when to use protection or not.
Does Thembi have to continue having sex with this man?
What other choices does she have?
What other resources are there for girls in this regard?
Sihle meets a very handsome boy who she really likes. She has unprotected sex with him and she falls pregnant. The boy then refuses to help her raise the baby. She has to drop out of school, and give up all her dreams of one day becoming a nurse. Instead she sells fruits o the side of the road to try and make enough money to support her and her child.
How could Sihle have prevented this situation?
What choices does Sihle have?
The level of teenage pregnancy is increasing, in what way can it be reduced?