[Margaret Pilkington]

Stanaccy, I would not advocate blindness, but I think it is a really tough road back to some kind of moral obligation and responsibility, especially when a court sees fit to throw out the case of a young girl who wished to declare her abstinence from sexual relations by the wearing of a ring.
We have to do what my parents did.......educate children to feel a high level of self esteem, be proud to be unique, and not to embark on something that you know doesn't feel right.....for the only reason that your peers SAY they are sexually active. Yes, I knew girls who were at school at the same time that I was and they were supposed to be having sex with every Tom Dick or Harry....because Tom dick and Harry were quite proud to smear these girls reputations.....I'm not so sure they were all up to what was said about them.
No-one got pregnant during my four years at secondary school - but then that was a long time ago and we read Bunty and Jackie....not the stuff that is produced for teenagers today.....'How to Make a guy Fancy You' proclaims one of these mags.....do we really want our young girls to be reading this stuff...it is corrosive.