i'm sure that pregnancy rates overall are falling in most european countries, however teen pregnacy is shockingly visible here in england.

and we have to remember that condoms not only prevent pregnancy but STI/STD's also!

Britain has the second highest teenage birth rate in the developed world, according to a new report from the United Nations.

The United States is the only country with a higher proportion of teenage mothers, with 52 per 1000 compared with 32/1000 in the United Kingdom. The lowest birth rates were found in Korea, Japan, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Sweden, where less than 7 girls per 1000 gave birth.

i myself am shocked that in a country where every form of pregnancy prevention is freely available and accessible, young girls are still getting pregnant at very young ages

The debate on how best to tackle teenage pregnancy has arisen again as latest figures show the rate in under-16s in England and Wales has increased.

The government says it can do no more without the help of parents, while others are again calling for a broadening of sex and relationship education in schools.

Three sisters who gave birth at 12, 14 and 16 recently hit the headlines

and while we are on the subject....i just have to mention how uncomfortable i am with the british term of a woman "falling pregnant"

Every year, almost 50,000 girls under 18 fall pregnant, leading critics to claim that government-led efforts to encourage safer sex are backfiring. The number who conceive is at its highest level since a multi-million-pound teenage pregnancy crackdown almost a decade ago.

  i happen to like the advert....(sorry elizabeth, i have made a pig's ear of this comment...HELP!)