“i am appauled by 'JODIE'S' comment, i myself have 2 wonderful children, both of whom were concieved whilst i was 16 and 17 years of age..i am now 21. i have never claimed any benefits my husband( and might i add father to my two children) the only think i have claimed is child benefit (AKA family allowence) i have never lived in a council house either, and believe it or not i lived on St.Giles for 17 years!!! i concieved both times whilst being responsible and using protection, the pill and the coil. i am 21, married, have 2 children, buying my house in a much sought after village near Lincoln and am training to become a midwife! not bad ay considering i am one of these disgusting things they call teenage mothers! i would also like to add that having my children was my choice, and i had exellent sex education by my parents, but i played with matches and got burnt...me not my parents it was my choice to have sex, and carry on with the pregnancies.
i hope i have cleared your narrow minded view on teenage pregnancy, please don't judge us all the same.”

“It was taboo previously and that was far worse with single mums cast into special homes or to convents.
This is a by product of a thankfuly more liberated Britain. A more sensible and open approach needs to be given. On the one hand we have more liberated teenagers sleeping with each other, on the other we have prudish parents denying it happens. Just look at what happened with the introduction of giving the cervical cancer injection. Until we approach this with the acknowledgement that teenagers, your teenagers, have sex we are going to get no where.”

“Girls have babies to trap there man, get a free home and get money every week! Its clear! Maybe they should stop getting all the money and housing and they would think twice about having a baby. It disguests me when i see kids under the age of 18 having children they just sponge of people who work dam hard and wait till they have there own home there in love and ready to bring up a child in a happy and secure enviroment. They need to think twice”

“To add to my comment earlier, i think boys should be made to do this too so they can also see the effects of their actions!!”

“I think maybe there should be some sort of surveys done to ask the girls why they got pregnant and chose to keep the baby, then we may have a bit more understanding than just presuming it is because of broken homes or rebellion.
I also think girls, at a young age, during secondary school maybe, should have trips to a specialised house of some kind, for maybe a 2 week period, where parents are willing to hand their babies over to show girls what it is really like to have a baby. Obviously, the parents of the baby will stay there to watch over them, but then maybe these girls will not just see it as fun and take on the consequences seriously.”

“Ian Bower, if I remember rightly, I think it's only illegal for a man (of any age) to sleep with an underage girl under the charge of statutory rape. I don't think the girl can be prosecuted unless she's an adult sleeping with a minor. However, I might be wrong!”

“One thing that puzzles me about teenage pregnancies is that is illegal to have sex under 16 (please correct me if I'm wrong).
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I know that it wouldn't do any good prosecuting a youngster for this, but what is the point of 'under age' sex being illegal if no -one is ever prosecuted for it?
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I'm not being moralistic about this, just puzzled.”

“continuing what i put earlier although i don't agree with abortions unless it is due to medical problems why don't they force under 16's to have abortions as soon as the parents know and if they have gone past 24 weeks of to take the baby away and give to family who want but cant have kids. I know this probably sounds harsh but how can someone under 16 look after a baby when they are only children themselves.”

“So just cause she says its fun having kids does that mean she doesn't look after them properly?. I'm 28 have 2 kids and i find it fun having them, is that supposed to say something about me?”

“I don't think this issue has anything do with any 'schemes' at all does it! It relates to morals and how nobody is taught any these days. It saddens me that Ms Sutherland's children are just 'fun' for her. I don't think anybody should be brought into the world for fun. I think the issue comes down to the same old same old.....all parents should take responsibility for teaching their children morals and the difference between right and wrong and that every action has a consequence.”