Teenage Pregnancy

Teenage Pregnancy, Patriarchal Hypocrisy and Immaculate Conception

Louise Pennington | Posted 21.05.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Louise Pennington

We already know the causes of teenage pregnancy and, yet, the UK is following the US's path with parents demanding the right to prevent their children learning about real sexual education. The destruction of the welfare state and universal healthcare is already having serious detrimental effects on families

New York's Teenage Pregnancy Campaign Completely Misses The Mark

Planet Ivy | Posted 20.05.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Planet Ivy

The American campaign, with its irritating rhetorical questions and accusatory statistics, offers no advice on contraceptive methods or the choices a pregnant person has. It's all warnings and threats and videos of baby's admonishing the viewer for getting pregnant.

Clever Children Have Safer Sex, Says Gove

The Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 25.04.2012 | UK Universities & Education

Children who perform well academically display less "risky behaviour" and practice safe sex, according to Michael Gove. The education secretary tol...

Sex Education Has Nothing to Do With Condoms

Carrie Lloyd | Posted 30.05.2012 | UK Universities & Education
Carrie Lloyd

We're getting something very wrong and it's the fact that schools are too scared to talk about the fluffy parts of our lives that actually influence us to make the correct decisions. Confidence, avoiding hurting others, why every one is getting wasted, understanding that we have a right to say no.

NHS Bosses Defend Giving Pill Implant To Girl, 13

PA | Posted 07.02.2012 | UK

NHS managers have defended giving girls as young as 13 contraceptive implants in school in an attempt to combat teenage pregnancies. The initiative...

Mother Outraged After Girl, 13, Given Pill Implant At School

PA/Huffington Post | Posted 07.02.2012 | UK Universities & Education

The NHS has been forced to defend itself after a mother discovered her 13-year-old daughter had been given the implant without her knowledge. The i...

No to Abstinence - Yes to Better Education

Ambi Sitham | Posted 13.03.2012 | UK Politics
Ambi Sitham

Nadine Dorries' proposals have been lambasted as being out of touch, based on religiosity and an attempt to impose Christian moral values on others as well as being sexist by targeting girls exclusively. Perhaps some of this is true and certainly some of her reasoning behind the bill is questionable if we are being polite, ludicrous if we are being blunt. But I can't help but think that whilst not hitting the nail on the head, she has touched a nerve that we as a society need to acknowledge and the government and educational authorities need to address.

Mums and Midwives Get Older as Births Keep Booming

Cathy Warwick | Posted 22.01.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Cathy Warwick

Mums are getting older. The number of births to women (and girls) under 20 is down in all four parts of the UK. In Scotland there are now fewer births to teenage mums than in any year since 1952.

Why I Want to Make Peer-To-Peer Sex Education Happen

Shereece Marcantonio | Posted 26.12.2011 | UK Universities & Education
Shereece Marcantonio

We find that young people teaching other young people about sex and relationships just makes sense. Young people don't want to talk about their private parts and sex lives to an adult 30 years their senior or to someone who will then teach them history, maths or whatever subject they double up in!

Teenage Unprotected Sex On The Increase, Survey Says

PA | Posted 25.11.2011 | UK

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Teenage Pregnancy Could Be "Contagious"

PA | Posted 09.10.2011 | UK

PRESS ASSOCIATION -- Teenage pregnancy could be "contagious" for girls influenced by their elder sisters who have children while young, new research h...