Sunday, December 30, 2007

Teenage mums rife in Britain

The government of Britain has admitted for the first time that sex education initiatives are failing to control teenage pregnancy rates.

Every year, almost 50,000 girls under the age of 18 years fall pregnant and the number who conceives is at its highest level since a multi-million-pound programme to curb teenage pregnancy was initiated almost a decade ago, Sunday Telegraph reported.

Britain therefore tops the league table of teenage mothers in western Europe, despite its record number of school-age abortions, the newspaper said quoting a report by the department of health posted on its website.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

If Britain has the record number of abortions and single mothers, why doesn't it have a correspondingly high number of Aids victims. Perhaps "safe sex" was invented to increase the profits of condom manufacturers, or to make jobby jabbers and smack heads feel better. We may never know.