THE National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence is advising schools where teenage pregnancy is high to run ante-natal classes for gymslip mums to help young girls deal with labour and motherhood.
I agree with critics who have lambasted the proposal saying that it would normalise pregnancy and make it more common than ever.
Britain already has the highest pregnancy rates in Europe.
Surely, rather than providing ante-natal classes at schools, they would be better off teaching young girls of the folly of becoming pregnant before they have completed their education.
Schools exist to assist and support parents in the education of their children, not to shoulder the blame of a permissive society.
COUN D PEARSON, St Michael’s Court, Blackburn.
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