An irritatingly vague piece in the Observer today (couldn’t they have managed a figure or two in it?) finds that Pregnancy focuses girls’ minds on education. The line is that girls who get pregnant are often those who are disillusioned with or who have already left school, but after pregnancy they go back to school and work towards a professional future for themselves.
Seems sensible enough, and it is always good to see “teen mums” not just being regarded as a welfare burden. But I can’t help wondering if it is pregnancy precisely that has this effect, or the attention and services offered.
If you got to these girls before they were pregnant and offered the same services, would you not get a similar outcome? And without the babies…?
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