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.
Joy of sex education
George Monbiot: America's virgin soldiers are on their way - ignoring the dangers of abstinence for teenagers.
Want to be slim? Cut your blood supply
Scientists have found a new way to make the obese slim again - by cutting off the blood supply to the layers of fat that are a health hazard for hundreds of millions of people.
Stop this sexual shielding
Kierra Box: Teenagers are not going to stop having sex, so give them access to advice and contraception.