More children are having sex in Britain than in any other country in Europe, according to World Health Organisation figures published on Monday.
Girls outstrip boys in the numbers prepared to have sex aged 15 or younger - leading to 20 of them getting pregnant each day.
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And more than 15 per cent of the teenagers in England fail to use contraception.
The report, to be published in the journal Archives of Paediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, highlights the continued failure of Labour's pledge to halve pregnancies among 16- and 17-year-olds by 2010.
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In response, the Government has announced a raft of measures, including personal contraception counsellors to stop teenage mothers from getting pregnant again.
You would think by now that people would start to recognize that efforts to separate pregnancy from sex, at least among unmarried teens, have been a bust. But no, these people are calling for more of the same failed policies instead of admitting that unmarried teens, sex, and contraception are a bad combination. As long as this is the case, expect teen pregnancy to be a significant problem now and in the future.
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