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Britain Plans 'Sex Advice Packs' for Parents to Cut Teen Pregnancies
In a new controversial move to cut teenage pregnancies, the government is considering sending parents sex advice packs when their children turn nine.
These booklets would educate parents on how to teach their children about sex, relationships and contraception.
This proposal, suggested in a report by Chris Bryant, a Labour MP and aide to Harriet Harman, Labour's Deputy Leader, constitutes a plan to curb the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in Western Europe. He has also suggested that there should be compulsory lessons about sex and relationships in schools.
This move comes as the Government's Ģ150 million strategy to halve under-18 conception rates by 2010 is failing badly in many deprived areas of the United Kingdom.
In the report, Bryant said that large parts of the country are "blighted" by high teenage pregnancy levels which create a "vicious cycle of under-achievement, benefit dependency, ill health, lack of aspiration, poor parenting and child poverty".
He carried out extensive interviews with teenagers and single mothers and found that in some areas, 20 teenagers were pregnant at any one time for every secondary school.
He suggested the Swedish way to counter the problem- that parents should be given advice booklets ensuring parents and schools to give out the same message to children.
"At present most kids will tell you they have been told how to put a condom on a cucumber but that is it. And it is not enough, said Bryant.
These booklets would educate parents on how to teach their children about sex, relationships and contraception.
This proposal, suggested in a report by Chris Bryant, a Labour MP and aide to Harriet Harman, Labour's Deputy Leader, constitutes a plan to curb the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in Western Europe. He has also suggested that there should be compulsory lessons about sex and relationships in schools.
This move comes as the Government's Ģ150 million strategy to halve under-18 conception rates by 2010 is failing badly in many deprived areas of the United Kingdom.
In the report, Bryant said that large parts of the country are "blighted" by high teenage pregnancy levels which create a "vicious cycle of under-achievement, benefit dependency, ill health, lack of aspiration, poor parenting and child poverty".
He carried out extensive interviews with teenagers and single mothers and found that in some areas, 20 teenagers were pregnant at any one time for every secondary school.
He suggested the Swedish way to counter the problem- that parents should be given advice booklets ensuring parents and schools to give out the same message to children.
"At present most kids will tell you they have been told how to put a condom on a cucumber but that is it. And it is not enough, said Bryant.
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