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Originally Posted by BERNADETTE
Some varied and interesting answers but all most seem to be focusing on the young mums, when did the dads drop out of the equation? Does anybody know what age the children are bombarded with sex education? Seems to me kids aren't kids for any length of time now. Ok a young child might get curious as to where their brother/sister came from, what is wrong with telling them "out of mummys tummy" which isn't a lie. Why do they need to know at such a young age all the facts of life? Seems to me that they know the facts of life whilst still believing in Father Christmas. For goodness sake let them be kids.
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Got to agree Bernie. There are one or two on here who were brought up in the Swinging Sixties, and I can remember girls getting pregnant in those days too, but the difference is that in those days quite a lot of the "fathers" didn't do a runner they got married, it was seen as the thing to do in those days. Even so can't remember to many school kids getting pregnant. With this in mind is sex education actually the answer, we didn't get it in school, there were no teachers showing us the art of how to put a condom on. I think we must remember that in our day there were no mags for girls, some of which are a bit strong for 18 year olds let alone 10 or 11 year olds, there was no Internet where all kinds of sexual material can be accessed. Unfortunately its a problem that's not going to go away anytime soon, I don't think that any one has the answer and that's why the problem is increasing and the more its highlighted in the media the worse it will get. There is an old saying "No News is Good News" maybe it might be an idea to keep these problems out of the headlines as highlighting them and rabbiting on about it doesn't seem to have made a blind bit of distance, if anything its exacerbated the problem
