Boys to be issued condom 'credit cards' to cut teen pregnancy.Byline: ANI London, June 7 (ANI): Condom 'credit cards' will be issued to boys as young as 12 in a bid to cut teenage pregnancies teenage pregnancy Adolescent pregnancy, teen pregnancy Social medicine Pregnancy by a ♀, age 13 to 19; TP is usually understood to occur in a ♀ who has not completed her core education–secondary school, has few or no marketable skills, is and persuade boys to take greater responsibility for contraception. The scheme will allow them to pick up free contraception at football grounds, barber's shops and scout huts, reports Times Online. Condoms will be distributed at places where boys congregate con·gre·gate tr. & intr.v. con·gre·gat·ed, con·gre·gat·ing, con·gre·gates To bring or come together in a group, crowd, or assembly. See Synonyms at gather. adj. 1. Gathered; assembled. 2. , to spare them the embarrassment of visiting sexual health clinics or facing a shop assistant at a pharmacist's counter. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. new government guidance, boys will be able to collect the condoms by showing a plastic card issued to them after they have attended a safe-sex lesson. Boys who take advantage of the scheme will not have to give their names or answer questions about their sex lives. The plastic cards are already used by some local authorities, but will be made available to all boys in Britain aged 13 and over after the guidance is published in the autumn. The strategy is being drawn up for the Department for Children, Schools and Families The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) is a British government department created on 28 June 2007 on the disbanding of the Department for Education and Skills (DfES). It is responsible for all issues affecting people up to the age of 19 including education. by the Brook advisory service, which offers contraceptive contraceptive /con·tra·cep·tive/ (-sep´tiv) 1. diminishing the likelihood of or preventing conception. 2. an agent that so acts. advice to teenagers. However, critics believe it will encourage children to be sexually active from a younger age. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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