Teenage pregnancies

Posted on November 28, 2009
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A systematic review in the BMJ reports that the most important things associated with early parenthood are dislike of school, poor material circumstances, an unhappy childhood and low expectations for the future. No great surprises there, you may think, but accurate identification of causes can lead to effective interventions. In the second half of the paper, pooled results from 10 controlled trials show that early childhood interventions and youth development programmes can reduce teenage pregnancy rates by ~40%. Wouldn’t it be better to invest in interventions that target social disadvantage, instead of flogging the dead horse of sex education?

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