Wednesday, March 08, 2006

teenage pregnancy !



In the richest countries in the world, 1.25 million teenagers become pregnant each year. Of those, 760,000 will opt to become teenage mothers. UNICEF found, teenage pregnancy rate in America was twice than that of most other industrialised nations. For every 1,000 American women aged between 15-19, there were 52.1 births, compared to 30.8 births in the UK, 2.9 in Korea and 4.6 in Japan.
Why the rate is too high in those industrilized countries?
- Britons seem to have a very open attitude to sexuality. Tabloid newspapers feature topless women on their pages- you can find morning trains full of bare breasts newpapers!
- People are so much concern about sex education in the schools in those countries- but does it really help reducing pregnancy?