It was reported that abortions in Victoria last year with young women had dramatically increased. There were 209 abortions performed on girls under the age of 16. Two 12 year old girls had terminations. The biggest increase was amoung those aged 14.
3,350 females aged 20 or under sought terminations last year and although there maybe an increase with the young, State Government data shows 16,084 Victorian women had terminations in 2008/09 which shows an overall 12% decrease from 2005/06.
Some research shows that of the teens who are sexually active, a third had their first experience at age 14 years of younger. But almost one in 10 say they have not been taught sex ed at school.
People are blaming poor sex education at schools. Others are blaming the frequent teen sex scenes depicted on TV shows such as Home and Away.
A suggestion…. girls, always use a Condom! Simple but effective.
