Topic: Pregnancy News - Teenage pregnancy crime bomb (Mail and Guardian)

The department of education disclosed the alarming escalation of teenaged pregnancy that made headlines last year. Official figures from the provincial departments of education reveal that 5 868 learners in KwaZulu-Natal and 1 748 in the Free State fell pregnant last year. His recent research will enable us to understand why teenage pregnancy in South Africa in 2006/07 could lead to a massive wave of future crime. Unlike the children born before the ban, this new army of children lived miserable lives; they were under-achievers at school, struggled to make a living and many of them became criminals. The above passage could be speaking about the growing numbers of teenaged girls in South Africa who are carrying babies, who have every chance of living in poverty and swelling the numbers of criminals on our streets when they grow up. read more

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