Teen pregnancy and shame

[ChevronB19]

I recommend everyone reads this article, irrespective of political opinion.

Thankfully things are a lot better than this now, teen pregnancy rates much lower, but this is more about how society reacted (reacts?) to teen pregnancy.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/19/n...

[suthol]

Impressive lady

[Randy Winkman]

Important to have people who know about life in Parliament. One very small bit that struck me was the mention of people shouting "Hear, hear" in Parliament. I cant stand stuff like that.

[bitchstewie]

You only have to look at the Rayner threads on here to see how a chunk of society react.

[rodericb]

I must have missed where they said the age difference. Would there not have an offence committed?

[dai1983]

I'm around the same age as her and remember lads who'd left school already sat in their cars on the school grounds waiting to pick their 15 year old girlfriends up.

Even then it seemed a bit strange to me never mind the teachers and the girls parents with most of the girls involved leaving school early due to being pregnant.

[mac96]

As an aside, Fleet credits the Sure Start programme with helping her make a start in life. That was abolished years ago, if I recall correctly partly on political grounds (set up by previous Labour Govt- must be bad) and partly on cost grounds . I wonder whether a teenager today would get such effective help?

[EmailAddress]

Her parents failed her.

Her grandparents stepped up.

While the focus on the 'father' is the core, you have to look at the next tier back.

If we, as a society refocus on the wolves, are we failing to educate the nest.

What should take priority, what is, what could be, or what was.

[EmailAddress]

Am I reading that correctly:

Mother at 15, then another at 19, and two more after, and her first has a child now too?

She's in her 40s.

While some of her parenthood has been a choice, I'm not sure the way she percieves family aligns with her retoric.

Pleased she seems to be in a better place mentally though.