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.
