Underage pregnancies.

[yorkie_chris]

But if both parties are below the age of consent then the term is a little bit silly, what is it then? Mutual rape? lol.

Age of consent to make it illegal for old blokes to $hag very young girls, I thought that was pretty obvious?

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by Gene genie

its now ilegal to kiss on a train station platform, great to have standards.

And no, it hasn't been made illegal as far as I'm aware. Some signs have been put up in manchester to shut some whingers up and chances are you can quite safely ignore them. Or kiss them if you want.

Originally Posted by yorkie_chris

Age of consent to make it illegal for old blokes to $hag very young girls, I thought that was pretty obvious?

quite right mate. goes without saying, but the law applies to all. but yeah your right what can you do in this situation?
at the end of the day they'll reap the rewards from the papers, mags and tv appearances which will only encourage others to do the same.

I was very surprised when I started working in a school 3 years ago.

According to our media, every teenager carried a knife and beat up everyone they saw, etc etc. I wondered what I'd let myself in for.

Well, I have to say that they are a lovely polite pleasant bunch, yes I do come across the odd rude one, but on the whole they are great. They even shout out 'hello miss' when I'm in town.

Now the worse bunch I deal with are the upper 6th, aged 17 and above, blimey don't they think they know it all.

But the lower school are ace, I love them!

Apparently this Alfie Patten has joined Fathers For Justice.
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Well, he already has the Spiderman outfit

Originally Posted by jaffacakes

Apparently this Alfie Patten has joined Fathers For Justice.
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Well, he already has the Spiderman outfit

Originally Posted by MiniMatt

Let me get this straight - you're dismissing crime statistics and birth statistics as lies? And you're trumpeting your own perception as more reliable indicator of crime statistics across the nation and more reliable than hospital records of births?

Hell, don't get me wrong, statistics can be massaged for sure, but given the question "how many murders were there in year X" or how many pregnancies per thousand individuals in the 13-19 bracket were there in year Y" are you seriously suggesting to me that official figures are wrong and you, you are the correct source of such information?

I've noticed you've taken to believing the statistics but also stating that they are "massaged"...surely this is a contradiction as anything which has been "massaged" or altered to suit the required needs is no longer factual. Only the raw data is ever factual...and this is never presented!

Statistics are always skewed and manipulated to suit the role which they are being presented for. Extrapolation is commonly used when displaying statistics on things like knife crime etc and doesn't reflect true information in the slightest.

Not to mention that when you see a headline saying "x thousands of cars were stolen last year" or something along those lines, they obtain this information from the individual police forces and often not all of the forces reply to the information request so they effectively guess at how many cars were stolen in a particular area...be it averaging over the region or what not.

I'm not disputing that there are more of less teenage prenancies at present than there were in the past - largely I think that the media is to blame as this stuff is widely broadcast where as 40 years ago I doubt a teenage prenancy would have made national use, if even local news!

You have talked about the Daily Mail esque and education etc etc, but surely thinking that the statistics presented are gospel is almost as bad?

Don't forget that the Government recently created the UK Statistics Agency to improve public trust in official statistics, in fact to stop the very disbelief evident in this thread. When the Home Office tried to massage offender statistics, the head honcho published his highly critical letter to them and the Government had to apologise and back down.

Originally Posted by Speedy Claire

I notice your location is "near Amsterdam". Special schools in the UK are obv different to the special schools in your area.... see below

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_school


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special..._(Netherlands)

Location is Amsterdam, but I left blighty 10 years ago. Like a said a Cousin (from Leicester, still living in Leicester along with most of my Family) went to a 'Special School' picked up by taxi multiple times a week. He was picked up by taxi as it was the only way to actually get him there at least some of the time. He doesn't have any special needs educationally, just for dicipline (and I need a spell checker online ).

I know there are other special needs schools as well - I just wanted to point out that special needs is a lable that covers many things.

Originally Posted by Drew Carey

As for the OP, I feel that some scientist needs to work out a way in which kids can be chemically newtered until they are 16, with the "chemical" then either wearing off or a antidote being given.

Many should just be done permenantly so they don't dilute the human gene pool any further.

As for under age pregnancy, let the family support them or they get nowt, yes i am an uncaring a55ehole but in my world life is perfect.