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Black Death blamed on man, not rats
A new analysis of more than 100 plague epidemics which swept Europe for hundreds of years concludes that it was not spread by rodents running between villages and towns but by man himself.
I wasn’t told my daughter was going to have a baby … or that she was keeping it
Does a parent have a right to know? David Townsend recounts his reaction to his 14-year-old's pregnancy.
Who knows that help is out there?
Parents need to be told about care, support and their children's rights when teenagers fall pregnant, says Maureen Freely.
A girl’s right to choose
A mother is furious because her 14-year-old daughter's school arranged an abortion without telling her. Were they right? Yvonne Roberts reports.
A daughter’s dilemma
The Netherlands shows the better the sex education, the later sexual experience begins and the lower the number of unwanted pregnancies.
School backed in abortion row
DfES stands by policy of confidential advice for pupils.
Abortion advice in school ‘just geography’
Advice to a 14-year-old girl who had an abortion without parental knowledge might just as easily have been given elsewhere, said the DfES today, as it sought to defend its policy of bringing health services into schools.
School advised girl, 14, to have abortion without telling mother
A woman whose 14-year-old daughter had an abortion on the advice of a school health worker but without her knowledge has launched a furious attack on the system.
Don’t touch me there
How do you persuade teenagers there is value in virginity? Joanna Moorhead compares US-style moral pledges with British sex education, and finds few converts.