Another thing, those who do get married at puberty (and if the girl agrees to marriage as Islam has ordered it to be) may be taught about stuff before their marriage by the mother or whoever it be.

Just because one girl is getting married at puberty all the girls should be taught about sexual intimacy has no sense whatsoever in it.

I agree fully with Irfan. If Islamic teachings are provided a child will gradually understand different aspects of life.

@JKS: sexual perversion outside marriage is the normal thing in U.S. but not in Pakistan. AND definitely not in Islam. In the U.S. the number of illegitimate children is so high that one wonders if any child was born to any married couple. Doing the act and then getting married quickly so that the child will be born to a married couple doesn’t change the fact that the child is still illegitimate.

It is amusing to note that you have mentioned backward and overly religious together…

You asked about birth control…oh, i think it was in the other post. O’right i will go there to answer that one.

@Syed: Good Dad. You’re the best judge of when your own son should learn about such things. I always told my son, now 35, that if he ever had a question about ANYTHING, feel free to ask; he asked me about his male part when he was about 12, and I gave him the “facts of life,” in a cordial, thorough, factual manner. He was fine with that, never got a girl into trouble, is married, a father himself and doing fine. We’re good friends.

I bet you miss Pakistan sometimes. My mother and my son’s mother were first-generation immigrants, and I know neither of them ever completely left their homelands, in their hearts. Good luck in the UK.

With great power comes great responsibility, and it is this same great power that our media abuses. Drawing attention to silly and backward issues is one thing, but contorting the truth is quite another. I was horrified to find that the death of a murderous brigand, who had nothing but blood to his name was being mourned all over our newspapers and television channels. Akbar Bugti and Rehman dakait were both criminals, even enemies of the state. They were enemies of anyone who aspires to a Just, progressive Pakistan free of corruption,fuedalism, and other elements of underhandedness. Yet our media serves to glorify them, projecting them like heroes. After the death of Rehman Dakait, the media focused more on the circumstances of the encounter - how Chaudhry Aslam had allegedly staged a fake encounter, rather than list the innumerable deaths and crimes the Lyari gangster was responsible for. 

Our media is testament to the same small minded thinking that has hindered our progress for years.