[garinda]

It's a generation of disinterested parents, and years of poor education, that is letting these young people down.

The rudimentary mechanics of reproduction, and for that matter contraception, can be taught in minutes. It's the teaching of self respect and morality that's sadly not being taught in schools.

We have become over the last thirty or so years a nation that demands whatever we desire straight away, and to hell with the consequences. The must have trainers, the latest mobile, or sex. Pubescents have always been interested in sex, and always will be. What must be made clear is that you can have a healthy interest in steam trains, for example, without the need to drive one yourself.

The pathetic recent case of a sexually active fifteen year old girl, and her thirteen year old partner, who it turned out wasn't the teen father, isn't an isolated incident. Thousands of young teens are rutting away in back alleys across the lad, with little thought to the fact that unprotected sex may lead to pregnancy, or disease. Someone else will provide the finance for their offspring, if they should happen to conceive.

I don't know if the situation can be saved. Young people are just mirroring the want it all now society we all live in.

The only hope I think is if education focuses much more on the responsibility that comes from physical relationships, and that such unions are so much more special when conducted in a long term loving relationship.