It seems to be fashionable to get pregnant

[Eridanus]

Family campaigners said her comments showed how the Government's sex education policy had left teens with the "ridiculous but extremely worrying" misconception that having a child was no different to getting a new handbag.

Getting a new handbag is not a life changing experience...

 

[Dodge_Sniper]

Article's fake to me. For one, that picture could be fake or photoshopped, and secondly-

Of the four other girls at aged 14 and 15 at Paignton Community College

How many 14 and 15 year olds do you know in college? Most 14 and 15 year olds are still in High School.

 

[Peter Parka]

Yeah but this is Britain, not America. She probably dropped out of school because she was pregnant and this a community college where you just go part time to do some courses, not a college like what you're thinking of.

 

[Dodge_Sniper]

Well in Florida, a community college is a college...in the community...like FCCJ

 

[GuesSAngel]

Not necessarily, there are some students that are home schooled and will take classes at a community college. I have friends that did this.

 

[ngdawg]

My daughter is 15; none of her friends are pregnant, but I can't vouch for being virgins(she is though). (It was very comforting to see her walking with a boy, not knowing I was around, and no touching, handholding, anything going on)
The father in the article has a point-you can teach, preach, etc., but kids are going to do what they want to do. The best we as parents can hope for is that they're more intelligent than willful. It'd also help to have these girls be with a baby for 24 hours; some schools actually have, as part of their health/living curriculum, a 'real-life' baby that they must spend time with-it cries, 'wets', and can only be silenced with a key. The doll records the times it cries, the time it took for the 'mother' to respond and any tampering attempts.
It's called Baby, Think It Over

 

[Dodge_Sniper]

Yeah, I had one last year for a class I had in school. And Lemon gave me a very good quote, it made my sig for a while! "Toss the kid in the blender and enjoy a snack!". I hated that fucking thing. The baby doesn't wet, but it does cry randomly. It stops crying eventually, but you get points taken off if you don't get the key in within like, 60 seconds. It records tampering with the box inside it, if you don't enter the correct code within like, 60 seconds of opening it, it's considered tampering. The key can be required for anywhere between 5-30 minutes, maybe shorter, maybe longer. If it gets hit or dropped hard enough, it records it as abuse. And that bitch fucking SUCKED. I still hate those things. My friends get the flower bags, I had the damn baby. And I freak every time I see a friend with one of those at school.