A Shocking Government Funded Failure

In what only could be interpreted as a shocking development, social interventionists in the UK have failed at reducing teen pregnancy by tossing around condoms, introducing at risk girls to promiscuous ones, and teaching the whole gaggle the proper (and various) ways to do it.

In the Daily Mail:

The Government-backed scheme tried to persuade teenage girls not to get pregnant by handing out condoms and teaching them about sex.

But research funded by the Department of Health shows that young women who attended the programme, at a cost of £2,500 each, were 'significantly' more likely to become pregnant than those on other youth programmes who were not given contraception and sex advice.

A total of 16 per cent of those on the Young People's Development Programme conceived compared with just 6 per cent in other programmes.

Experts said the scheme failed because it introduced girls 'at risk' of becoming pregnant to promiscuous girls they might not otherwise have met.

Because of peer pressure, the more timid teenagers were more likely to have sex and become pregnant.

What? Sex and pregnancy are somehow tied together? Where do the storks come in?

The article includes this case study:

Case study - Lucy Lanelly

By the time she reached the age of consent, Lucy Lanelly had become pregnant four times.

And on each occasion the teenager from Toll Bar, South Yorkshire, had an abortion.

Now 19, she became pregnant at 12 after a single encounter with a 15-year-old boy.

She was then given a three-month contraceptive jab but failed to get another one.

The following year Lucy became pregnant by a 19-year-old man at a party. Her third pregnancy was by a 15-year-old boy who said he was infertile.

The last pregnancy was by her boyfriend Jack, 20, when a condom failed.

Lucy said: 'I don't regret having the terminations because I was too young to have a baby, but I do regret having sex when I wasn't mature enough to deal with it.'

Sooner or later, probably much later, feel good social engineers will finally figure out that the tearing apart of the nuclear family was not a good thing. Except, of course, that it is the social engineers and abortion clinics that most benefit from an unending stream of aimless children with neither compasses of morality nor responsibility.

Hat tip Protein Wisdom via Cold Fury