Teenage pregnancies decline as funding for sex education is cut [The Times]

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    Teenage pregnancies decline as funding for sex education is cut

    Oliver Moody, Science Correspondent
    May 30 2017, 12:01am, The Times

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    A study looking at a typical Teenage Pregnancy Unit campaign found that it resulted in significantly higher pregnancy rates
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    Teenage pregnancy rates have been reduced because of government cuts to spending on sex education and birth control for young women, according to a study that challenges conventional wisdom.

    The state’s efforts to teach adolescents about sex and make access to contraceptives easier may have encouraged risky behaviour rather than curbed it, the research suggests.

    In 1999, faced with some of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in Europe, ministers paid councils tens of millions of pounds a year to tackle the problem.

    Some local authorities made the morning-after pill freely available through pharmacies, while most hired teenage pregnancy “co-ordinators”, opened sexual health clinics in schools, and funded sex and relationship education (SRE) classes. The number of pregnancies, however, has fallen at a significantly faster rate...


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    My instinct tells me that the spending cuts in birth control is probably more effective than the cuts in "sex ed"