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Figures reveal girls as young as 10 are getting pregnant in the UK!
Posted On Tuesday, February 09, 2010 at 12:00:22 AM
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London: Even as teenage pregnancy continues to plague societies the world over, a shocking revelation has been made by British tabloid The Sun — that schoolgirls as young as ten are getting pregnant in the UK!. As per statistics obtain by it through a Freedom of Information request, in the last eight years, 15 girls aged 10 — still at primary school — and 39 aged 11 were found to be expecting. The Sun reports that around 300 aged 13 or under get pregnant every year in England and Wales. And since 2002 there have been 63,487 pregnancies among under-15s — almost 23 every day. The figures further reveal that since 2002, there have been 268 pregnant girls aged 12, 2,527 aged 13, 14,777 aged 14 and 45,861 aged 15. Up until now, the youngest girl reported to be pregnant in the UK conceived aged 11 in Scotland and gave birth aged 12. The Sun speculates that the true number of children who fall pregnant could be even higher as there is no way of adding illegal abortions and miscarriages to the data. Government statistics show 60 per cent of under-age pregnant girls have an abortion. Britain has one of Europe’s highest under-16 pregnancy rates. Ministers have unsuccessfully poured millions into schemes to tackle the problem. A recent study found the London boroughs of Lewisham, Southwark and Lambeth had the highest under-age pregnancy rates in Britain, it further reports. |
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