Teen Pregnancy bbc

Condoms or family meals?

Post categories: The way we behave

Mark Easton | 14:52 GMT, Thursday, 26 March 2009

What stops teen pregnancies: condoms or family meals?

Is the answer to teenage pregnancies more advice on how to get an abortion? Or pre-watershed TV ads on the wisdom of wearing a condom?

Britain has the highest level of teen conceptions in Europe, but I suspect that the problem is more down to lifestyle than to lack of information.

If the equation were as simple as [more sex education = fewer unwanted pregnancies], why have Britain's rates remained stubbornly high during a decade when advice has never been easier to access?

As far as the availability of abortions is concerned, the latest figures show record numbers opting for a termination. In 2007, more than 20,000 girls under the age of 18 received a legal abortion in England and Wales - a rate of 20/1000, the highest ever recorded.

These figures do not suggest that it is ignorance of the options that sees so many young women give birth.

Allowing pregnancy advisory services to advertise on television is clearly controversial, but is it any more problematic than allowing those same organisations to put up posters on school notice boards? Or on bus shelters? These already happen.

So far as information on contraception is concerned, I doubt that there is a secondary-school-aged child who hasn't had the low-down on condoms. The question is whether they take any notice.

For me, the figures which offer the most likely explanation for the UK's high teen pregnancy rates do not relate to sex education at all. They reflect upon the amount of time young people spend unsupervised with other young people - kids hanging around without adults.

Research published by the Institute for Public Policy Research think tank (IPPR) [55Kb PDF; registration required] in 2007 looked at the lifestyle of teenagers in a number of European countries.
Proportion of 15-year-olds spending time with friends four or more evenings a week, 2001/02Proportion of 15-year-olds spending time with friends four or more evenings a week, 2001/02; source: IPPR

In France, just one in six of 15-year-old boys questioned said that they spent most evenings out with their mates. In Italy and Germany, it was roughly one in four.

But in England, the figure was 45% who spent most nights with their teenage friends. In Scotland, the figure was nearly 60%.
Young people whose parents eat the main meal with them around a table several times a week, 2000Young people whose parents eat the main meal with them around a table several times a week, 2000; source: IPPR

Compared with other European countries, our youngsters don't spend much time with their parents. Just 7% of Italian kids said that they rarely sat down for a meal with their mum and dad. In the UK, the figure was 36%.

If young people are spending a lot of time with other young people, often taking alcohol or drugs and without parental or other adult supervision, it is far more likely that they will end up having sex.
1Proportion of 15-year-olds who have had sexual intercourse, 2001/02Proportion of 15-year-olds who have had sexual intercourse, 2001/02; source: IPPR

And our youngsters do: 38% of our 15-year-olds say they have had sexual intercourse compared to 16% in Spain, 22% in France, 23% in the Netherlands, 24% in Italy and 28% in Germany. I suspect that almost four in ten 15-year-olds having sex is less about ignorance and more about opportunity.

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http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos060.htm
nature of the work, training... tout sur le métier de travailleur social

http://www.thesocialworker.com/history.html
brief history of child welfare

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information on how to become a social worker

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an 8mn video about the impact of post election violence in Nairobi ( Kenya)

http://teachingandlearning.qia.org.uk/tlp/shd/resource/usingmultimedia/multimediaresou/library/browseresources/videopages/practitioners/2179_49_SSW2_enjoy_O.html
A student social worker explainswhat she enjoys about her role.

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the same student lists some practitioners she works with.

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where's the money in social work ? Differents points de vue ( videos)

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glossaire thématique ( ex child labour...) site canadien.

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alphabetical glossary ( words + definitions+ facts+ history)

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Health topics ( from A to Z): definitions.

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Information and links to health and welfare issues:
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Money and life:
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Understanding money:
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Climate change/ environment:
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social attitudes:linkson attitudes, persuasion and influence
http://www.geocities.com/l_zinkiewicz/socialpsych.html
Domestic violence:
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battered children:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n7_v45/ai_13699800
eating disorders:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/health/conditions/mental_health/disorders_eating.shtml
http://www.equip.nhs.uk/topics/neuro/eating.html

Addictions:
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http://www.dop.wa.gov/Employees/EmployeeAssistanceProgram/UsefulLinks.htm

psychology and education:
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http://school.discoveryeducation.com/schrockguide/edspec.html

Information about finding a job, training, couselling:
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Women at work / gender equality:
http://www.equalities.gov.uk/

http://www.wmin.ac.uk/page-1847

http://www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/index.asp?PageID=117

The elderly:
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The disabled:
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Humanitarian aid:
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Volunteer work:
http://www.support4learning.org.uk/jobsearch/voluntary_work__voluntary_organisations__ngos__gap_year.cfm

http://www.thecareerbreaksite.com/useful-links/volunteer-work/index.php

Child care:
http://www.southamptoncis.org/childcare/useful-links.asp

http://www.oecd.org/document/20/0,3343,en_2649_39263231_1941780_1_1_1_1,00.html

Teenage drinking

The government yesterday faced fresh calls to increase the price of alcohol, after research showed young people in the UK reported some of the highest levels of teenage binge drinking, drunkenness and alcohol-related problems in Europe.

British girls aged 15 and 16 are binge drinking more than their male classmates, with fresh evidence that their behaviour is contributing towards high rates of teenage alcohol-related accidents and unprotected sex. Yet British teenagers were the most likely to claim that they expected "positive consequences" from drinking, such as "forgetting my problems".

The European School Survey Project on Alcohol and other Drugs (Espad) is the most detailed international study of its kind, covering teenagers' drinking, smoking and drug-taking habits in 32 European countries. The UK sample involved 2,179 teenagers: 1,004 boys and 1,175 girls.

The study was carried out in 2007 by the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol. Professor Martin Plant, who led the exercise, said: "The UK retains its unenviable position in relation to binge drinking, intoxication and alcohol-related problems amongst teenagers. This problem is both serious and chronic. I hope that the government will prioritise policies that are effective to reduce heavy drinking and alcohol-related disorder and health problems amongst young people."

UK teenagers ranked third highest (after Denmark and the Isle of Man) in terms of saying they had been drunk within 30 days of the survey, on 33%. In 2003 it was revealed that teenage girls in the UK (as well as Ireland and the Isle of Man) were more likely than boys to have been binge drinking in the previous 30 days.

Just over a quarter of students (26%) said they had suffered an accident or injury as a result of getting drunk, and 11% said they had had sex without a condom.

The report concludes: "The fact that some teenage girls are binge drinking even more than boys suggests that in the UK and elsewhere a profound social change has been taking place. It is clearly no longer socially unacceptable for females to drink heavily or to become intoxicated."

Dr Patrick Miller of the UWE said: "Some of the girls who drink to excess will die. The government has a chance to save lives by increasing the price of alcohol."

Don Shenker, chief executive of Alcohol Concern, said: "Not only are UK children getting drunk more often than most of their European peers, they're drinking larger amounts when they do. These figures show that the widespread practice of binge drinking in the UK has now filtered down to school-age children."

The Wine and Spirits Trade Association said: "The survey's authors are entirely wrong to advocate higher taxation of alcohol and higher prices to curb misuse when it is illegal for under 18s to purchase alcohol in the first place. What the survey does show is that proper education on alcohol in schools is needed."

Darfur

More than a million people in Darfur will go without food rations by May unless new aid agencies are deployed, a joint Sudanese-UN assessment says.

It also says there could be major water shortages within two weeks.

The warning follows Sudan's expulsion of 13 large foreign aid agencies, mostly from Darfur.

Mr Bashir accuses them of spying for the International Criminal Court, which has issued an arrest warrant against him for alleged war crimes in Darfur.

Four of the expelled non-governmental organisations (NGOs) served some 1.1 million people, the report released on Tuesday said.

The assessment team toured Darfur from 11-19 March, and the report was co-signed by UN and Sudanese officials.

'Band-aid solutions'

UN humanitarian affairs coordinator Ameerah Haq told journalists in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum that "the most critical needs are being filled for now".

"However, by the beginning of May, as the hunger gap approaches, and unless the World Food Programme has found partners able to take on the mammoth distribution task, these people will not receive their rations," she said.

The assessment also warned that "major water shortages could develop within two to four weeks, as from March 18, if fuel, incentives and spare parts are not continuously provided."

Since the expulsion of aid agencies, Sudan has said Sudanese groups have been filling the gaps, denying that there is any problem with the distribution of aid.

But UN humanitarian head John Holmes said the Sudanese government had not done enough, and that it had agreed in the report that gaps existed.

"We and the NGOs that are left, and the government, can do band-aid solutions, can make sure there is fuel available this week, maybe provide a consignment of chlorine tablets to purify water in some places," he said.

"But to replace the capacity that's gone properly will take time, is difficult, the capacity doesn't exist on the ground at the moment."

The ICC accuses Mr Bashir of orchestrating atrocities against civilians in Darfur, where his Arab-led government has been battling black African rebels since 2003.

Up to 300,000 people have been killed and 2.7 million have been driven from their homes.

Sudan denies the charges and says the figures are exaggerated.

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Welcome

Just a quick message to say that over the next few months I'll be trying to find a few articles to keep you informed of what's going on concerning many ESF subjects. Hope you'll have fun reading them and then you'll be able to pass your exam with flying colours.