A study in England published in the Journal of Health Economics, found that handing out free morning-after pills (MAPs) to teenage girls did nothing to reduce teen pregnancies. Study authors Professor David Paton and Professor Sourafel Girma also found that the availability of a free pill encouraged girls to not use protection during sex, leading to an increase in sexually transmitted infections (STI): "The morning-after pill free of charge didn't have the intended effect of cutting teenage pregnancies but did have the unfortunate side effect of increasing sexually transmitted infections."
Brenda Almond, Emeritus Professor at the University of Hull, says, "Instead of accepting its mistake and trying a different approach, the Government continues to cling to its discredited strategy of dishing out sex advice, pills, and condoms." There is a backlash against sex education in many other countries, like the US where they hope that abstinence will prevent teen pregnancy. But sex education is vital for girls who have a lot of other problems, other than just having sex with a boy, like getting answers for questions on their menstrual periods, lumps in their breasts, or unexplained rashes and discharges!
The other thing is that it takes two people to make a baby! So much advice is given to girls to prevent teen pregnancy, but what about boys?? One of the wrong reasons girls have sex is because they hope to get love and commitment from boys, and that almost never happens because boys are just not as mature as girls. Total abstinence and total promiscuity are the two extremes and most of us are in the middle. People with low self-esteem, living in an unstable family environment, or using drugs and alcohol, are more likely to have sex without thinking through about the consequences, or using basic protection.
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