munchingfoo wrote:.. 4% of UK girls become pregnant at 15 or below...
Gubbins wrote:munchingfoo wrote:.. 4% of UK girls become pregnant at 15 or below...
Sadly, I don't think this is made up. I've not been able to find any reliable figures on it, but judging by the people going through Edinburgh's hospitals (who get asked these sort of questions), that figure's probably not too far off the mark.
The number of conceptions per 1,000 girls aged 12 to 15 has risen from 7.8 in 2006 to 8.1 in 2007, today's figures show.
Humphrey wrote:Around 8,196 girls under 16 are estimated to have become pregnant in 2007, which represents just under 1% of all conceptions.
Dave the Explosive Newt wrote:Note that this is pregnancy, not teen birth rate (comparatively lower). The majority of these are aborted before they reach the end of the first trimester (i.e. before it becomes noticable to the casual observer).
David Bean wrote:Did anyone else see the question on Question Time last night about this? As I recall it ran something along the lines of:
"If teenage pregnancy rates are increasing, why should we have to pay their benefits when they can easily avoid getting pregnant in the first place?"
Of course everyone on the panel disputed the implication of the question, but I must say I was charmed by its rather childlike simplicity.
ct3012 wrote:I was shocked when I heard that question, and equally shocked by the girl who looked about 14 who gave an opinion on the matter and suggested a purity ring movement in the country. I was very tempted to start arguing with the tv for how wrong and very Daily Mail the initial question was.
David Bean wrote:That girl was hilarious, particularly after David Dimbleby started interrogating her as to the intimate details of her sex life (or lack thereof, as it turned out).
But why were you so shocked by the question? It seems to me to be a thoroughly reasonable question to ask. We, the tax payers, are after all being compelled to shell out our hard earned money to fund this group of individuals, and if those of us who would prefer to keep the money rather than having it spent thus on our behalf are interested to discover with what justification they're being forced to do so, why shouldn't they ask a question like that? As far as I'm concerned, the state had better have a damn good reason for every single penny of mine it spends.
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