I happen to have a religious view on this subject but I don't want to drown this blog in biblical references.
In 2000 The Independent found that "one in four girls has underage sex but fewer than one third go to family planning clinics". These are frightening statistics but of course this doesn't mean than young people aren't using contraception as there are other ways to get it. Inevitably with underage sex there is underage pregnancy which, according to The Guardian in February 2009, rose for the first time in 7 years and a £20 million sex education package has been announced.
So why are teenagers, and even in some cases children, having sex so young? I don't think it is completely because of boredom or peer pressure, although obviously these things come into it. I think many teenagers are in loving/fond relationships and they genuinely think they are "ready", so at least the idea of sex and love hasn't been lost. I am a firm believer that children should be born into a married family (although that doesn't necessarily make their life anymore secure).
Teenagers and children are being brought up in an environment where sex is everywhere, in shops, music, film, the media and it is just something that you do when you feel like it. The idea of no sex before marriage is laughable! But if you think about it that is a very nice idea. Schools are educating safe sex rather than no sex. I think that if we brought our children up knowing that sex is wrong before a certain age then I think a majority of teenagers would wait (obviously this wouldn't work for everyone, the same way no drugs education doesn't).
I think that this is a type of bad behaviour because it is against the law, can be very damaging psychologically and can lead to another person being brought into the world in possibly bad circumstances. And yet despite this many teenager do have sex and babies too young.
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