Labour’s biggest failure: the 15 ten (and 39 eleven) year-olds who have fallen pregnant

Labour’s biggest failure in tackling one of Britain’s biggest social problems was exposed by The Sun on Monday as figures revealed that, since 2002, 15 ten year-olds have fallen pregnant.

In addition, 39 eleven year-olds have been found to be expecting in the same period of time, and 300 girls of or under the age of thirteen fall pregnant every year.

The Sun also states that ‘[t]he true number of children who fall pregnant could be even higher as there is no way of adding illegal abortions and miscarriages to the data’.

Disgusting statistics showing that at least 15 primary school children have fallen pregnant will shock and sicken many readers, especially as probably around 20 of the eleven year-olds will also have been in primary school at the time they fell pregnant.

The culture of sex bred in this country – particularly through films and TV programmes like E4′s Skins – has led to an encouragement – a pressure, even – for girls to start having sex earlier and earlier in life, leading to the vile revelation that 23 under-age girls fall pregnant every day.

The Sun revealed the facts after a Freedom of Information request – also stating that 268 12 year-olds, 2,527 13 year-olds, 14, 777 14 year-olds and 45,861 15 year-olds have fallen pregnant since 2002.

Government statistics have also revealed that 60% of those who have fallen pregnant under-age have an abortion.

As Sun doctor Carol Cooper said, ‘[these] girls are still children.The average pre-teen knows nothing about mothering – she still needs it herself’.

Despite reportedly pouring millions of pounds into schemes to tackle the problem, the figures released on Monday represent this Labour government’s biggest failure.

There is no easy answer to solving this problem, but already millions of pounds of our money have been wasted whilst the teenage pregnancy rate has risen – and something drastically needs to be done.

These girls are ruining their lives by falling pregnant before they have even left school, and often struggle to cope with bringing up their child – especially after most fathers have decided they wish to have nothing to do with them.

It is disgustingly ironic, but perhaps the person doing most to try to highlight and resolve the issue is chat show host Jeremy Kyle.

Drastic action is needed to be taken by this government – and fast – before it’s too late!