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zaterdag 6 juni 2009

Iceland to repay £2bn UK savings
Saturday, 6 June 2009 13:09 UK

There is very good news from Reykjavik. Iceland is going to pay the £2.3bn back to the British and Dutch government. There were big tensions and worries between the United Kingdom and Iceland, since last year. This was because the Icelandic banking system was owned by the state and controlled by the government. This caused big problems because de depositors who saved their money on Icesave were affected. But now even Iceland says that they also will pay the plus interest. According to a Treasury spokesman this is not only good news for the taxpayers in the United kingdom but for Iceland as well.

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This certainly is good news for the United Kingdom as for The Netherlands. The bank was a topical subject in the news last year. There were a lot of people who held accounts there. Not only in Britain but also in Holland. The bank collapsed because of the financial crisis. I think this step is positive and it will be a good solution for the tensions between Reykjavik and London. After long waiting the depositors will finally get their money back, but I wonder how long the local authorities and bodies have to wait before they get their money back. A year? Maybe two? Or longer?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/8086997.stm

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Last February there was a news article published in The Sun which caused a lot of fuss. This article was about Alfie Patten, a twelve -year -old boy, who according to his fifteen-year-old girlfriend, Chantelle Stedman, is the father of her child. Baby Maisie was born at Eastbourne District General Hospital on February 9 this year. Nearly immediately serious questions were raised about whether Alfie, could in fact be the child's real father. Although Chantelle Stedman has insisted all the time that Alfie is the father of her child, six other young boys said that they had also slept with Chantelle. After a court judgment DNA tests have shown that not Alfie Patten is the father of Chantelle Stedman’s baby but the fifteen-year-old Tayler Barker is. Tyler Banker has admitted having unprotected sex with the girl after spending the night drinking at her home, but he never thought it was going to be such a big problem, because Chantelle said she would take the morning after pill. Even her mother knew the kids were going to have sex.

Debate: kids are having kids

Arguments in favor:
- Nowadays it is not a big problem when young children become a parent because there are a lot of professional provisions for financial and psychological support for this target group.
- Children who become parent have more Sense of responsibility.
- Having a child on that age would be better than having an abortion. An abortion would be against faith.

Arguments against:
- No chance to study.
- You can lose your family by hurting their feelings.
- Raising a child is just too expensive so they will face financial difficulties.
- Face an insecure future.
- Your youth slips through your fingers.
- We should offer young children more and better sex education.
- The parents are educators; it is their responsibility to correct their children.
- Sex on this age is not good for the development of young children.

My conclusion:
Today’s children are psychically more mature, but kids having kids is in my opinion extremely worrying. It has become a vexed question in society. We can blame the parents or another kind of sort educator, but I think we must blame the authorities and institutes like Children’s Help Lines and Child Welfare Councils. I think that authorities have too much voice in social questions under which upbringing. We all know the procedures and methods of working of these authorities. They always stand up for the rights of the children what makes that parent have less to say. Even when you spank your child correctively this could cause difficulties for you as a parent. Because of the fact that parents have less to say children have more room to move, with all its consequences.

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