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• Teenage pregnancies

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 440
  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 ...
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• Care and Protection of Children Act Amendments– Northern Territory

  
  BitingTheDust — Authority: 123
  The ‘Care and Protection of Children Act’ in the Northern Territory in its short life has undergone several amendments. The ramifications of the legislation were far reaching and impacted on the way healthprofessionals, particularly doctor could interact with younger patients. As I wrote at the time: This ...
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• Poll lays bare myths of ’safe sex’

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 440
  More than one in 10 people (11%) do not realise a woman can get pregnant if she has sex standing up, according to a new poll. The Department of Health and the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) commissioned the survey to highlight misconceptions around safe sex. It found 19% were unaware a woman ...
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• Forced marriage helpline to close

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 440
  The UK’s only national helpline for victims of forced marriages and so-called “honour” violence is to cease operating after its funding was cut. The Honour Network Helpline (HNV) has had more than 6,000 calls from people fearing for their lives or of being forced to marry against their will. The ...
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• The Queen’s Speech: education

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 440
  The legislation also confirms the introduction of compulsory lessons in personal, social, health and economic education (PSHE), which will controversially herald the introduction of sex education in primary schools. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/election-2010/6597497/The-Queens-Speech-education.html
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• The Neediest Cases: Outfitting a Young Mother to Proudly Support Her Son

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 906
  After Jocelyn Morales left high school in her senior year to have a baby, she fell into a depression. Now, she has a G.E.D. and a job, but needed a grant to buy clothing for work.
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• Plan UK Announces the Launch of ‘Girls Without Voices’

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 440
  Plan UK today marks the launch of its major Christmas campaign, Girls Without Voices ( http://www.girlswithoutvoices.org ), with new research finding that British women wish they’d taken more advantage of what the UK education system has to offer. Further findings have also revealed that women in the UK believe ...
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• Pledge targets teenage pregnancies

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 440
  Reducing teenage pregnancies to combat health inequalities, child poverty and social exclusion is key Government policy, according to children’s minister Dawn Primarolo. Her pledge to continue efforts to bring down the numbers follows the publication of the Government’s response to a Teenage Pregnancy Independent ...
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• Start With A Girl: A New Agenda For Global Health

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 440
  #fullpost{display:inline;}The Center for Global Development ’s latest report, Start With A Girl: A New Agenda For Global Health , sheds light on the risks of ignoring the health of adolescent girls. Like other reports in the Girls Count series , it links broad social outcomes with adolescent health. ...
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• Love School? Less Chance of Getting Pregnant

  
  Articles about Condoms and Safe Sex Resources — Authority: 119
  I can fondly remember the first day of kindergarten. I had my backpack packed full of school supplies that I had eagerly shopped for with my mother based on the school supply list sent to us over the summer. I remember picking out my two-pocket folders with the fat brown puppies on the front cover and my Big Chief ...
  2 weeks ago

• Britain has highest number of abortions in Europe

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 440
  The country has for the first time overtaken France as the abortion capital of Europe - even though France has a population of 65m compared to Britain’s approximate 59m - and now ranks fifth in the world behind Russia, the US, India and Japan. Teenage pregnancy rates in Britain have increased by almost a ...
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• A Dollar a Day Not to Get Pregnant

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 440
  A pregnancy prevention program based at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro that pays 12 to 18 year old girls one dollar for every day they are not pregnant has spurred conversation and raised eyebrows as it has made its way through the blogosphere. College Bound Sisters was founded in its most infant ...
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• Welsh pharmacies’ increasing role in sexual health support

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 440
  THE community pharmacy network in Wales is made up of more than 700 pharmacies, ranging from the small independent pharmacy to the larger branches of well-known chains. They are located where people work, shop and live and to many they are the most accessible part of the health service. We are all aware of the role ...
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• Teenage Girls Weight May Affect Sexual Behavior

  
  Articles about Condoms and Safe Sex Resources — Authority: 119
  As a teenage girl, I can remember all the insane things I would do to try and keep my weight in check. I did Slim-Fast for a few weeks until I realized if I ever saw another chocolate shake again, I would have to run somebody over. I even forced my mother to buy me Richard Simmons’ ‘Sweating to the Oldies’ and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Poll shows sex education confusion

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 440
  Around two-thirds of Bristol parents believe their teenagers have no desire to discuss sex, a survey has revealed. The Bristol Teenage Pregnancy Partnership (BTTP) says their research reveals a huge gap between the amount of information adolescents want about sex and the amount they actually receive, with teenagers ...
  3 weeks ago

• UK: Pupils to be forced to have sex education under age of consent

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 143
  Parents are to be forced to allow their children to have sex education before the age of consent, the Government announced today.Under the new laws, when children reach 15 their parents will lose the right to withdraw them from sex education.At present parents can remove their children from lessons about sex until ...
  3 weeks ago

• UK: Pupils to be forced to have sex education under age of consent

  
  The Gates of Hell — Authority: 133
  Parents are to be forced to allow their children to have sex education before the age of consent, the Government announced today. Under the new laws, when children reach 15 their parents will lose the right to withdraw them from sex education. At present parents can remove their children from lessons about sex until ...
  3 weeks ago

• Sex education interruptus

  
  optimum population trust news watch — Authority: 440
  Year 6 sex education at a school in Lambeth. Photograph: David Levene/Guardian A government review has, as expected, ruled that sex education in schools will from 2011 be taught as part of the personal, social, health and economic (PSHE) curriculum. This means that children will learn about sex in the broader ...
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• Illinois Curb on Minors’ Abortions Nears

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 906
  Officials are expected to decide Wednesday when to begin enforcing a state law requiring doctors to notify a parent of anyone under 18 who seeks an abortion.
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• Schools’ ‘text for morning- after pill’ scheme expands

  
  The Christian Institute News — Authority: 603
  A scheme encouraging schoolgirls as young as 11 to request the morning-after pill by text message is to be expanded.After an initial trial among six secondary schools, Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust (PCT) hopes to roll out the scheme across the county.The scheme, which allows schoolgirls to text requests for the ...
  3 weeks ago

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