2. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-28860/UK-tops-league-
teenage-pregnancy.html
This article was taken from the
mail online which states with the
header “UK tops league of teenage
pregnancy” and claiming that this
is because of ‘ignorance’ “despite
being one of the world's biggest
users of contraceptives”.
This implies that the UK thinks they
know how to reduce the teenage
pregnancy rate but instead they
have a lack of knowledge of sex
education overall e.g. that the
contraceptive pill should be taken
everyday regularly.
3. http://www.independent.co.uk/extras/big-question/the-big-
question-why-are-teenage-pregnancy-rates-so-high-and-what-can-
be-done-about-it-1623828.html
This article was taken from the
independent which claims that the
reason for a high level of teenage
pregnancy is because “today's youngsters
have been subjected to ‘sexploitation’”
caused by “advertisers aiming sexy
clothing ads”.
This contradicts the previous news
paper article suggesting that the youth
of today do have the knowledge of sex
education and that it is commercialism
that is the cause of high teenage
pregnancy rates.
Is it possible that both of these are the cause? We
want to try and find the cause within our
documentary but also the solution.