Teen pregnancy 急に上がるs

十代の少年少女s are failing to 注意する 警告s about under-age sex, 主要な to 急に上がるing numbers of unplanned pregnancies.

New 人物／姿／数字s show that teenage pregnancy 率s rose by 40 per cent in some parts of London last year.

The 状況／情勢 is getting worse in two-thirds of the 資本／首都's boroughs, にもかかわらず dozens of 率先s to 取り組む the problem.

支持者s of new sex-education 政策s shrugged off the 増加するs today - （人命などを）奪う，主張するing the 統計（学） would soon 改善する.

But critics 恐れる young people are now 実験ing with adult 関係s even earlier than before, and say the 人物／姿／数字s cannot be 解任するd as a "blip".

国家の 人物／姿／数字s published

詳細（に述べる）s of teenage pregnancy 率s across London were 解放（する）d today just days after the 出版（物） of 国家の 人物／姿／数字s showing that pregnancies の中で under-18s rose by 800 within 12 months in England.

The 国家の picture 誘発するd 狼狽 from family-values 選挙運動者s, who believe 増加するing sex education and the 配当 of 解放する／自由な condoms may be encouraging promiscuous behaviour.

But today it 現れるd that the picture in London is even bleaker - with 増加するs far above the 国家の 普通の／平均（する）.

The number of teenage pregnancies has leapt up in most London boroughs, with the worst blackspots in Enfield, Harrow and Redbridge.

Doctors in Enfield dealt with 85 more teenage pregnancies in 2002 than in 2001 - an 増加する of more than 40 per cent, while doctors in Harrow dealt with 31 more, almost 37 per cent up.

率s in Redbridge rose by more than a third, while in Bexley, they 急に上がるd by almost a ４半期/4分の1.

MP Simon Hughes, the 自由主義の 民主党員s' London 市長の 候補者, who 収集するd the 人物／姿／数字s, said: "It is 深く，強烈に 関心ing that, in the past two years, so many outer London boroughs experienced 増加するs 井戸／弁護士席 above the 国家の 普通の／平均（する）.

"It appears t hat, in some areas, the teenage-pregnancy 戦略 is failing to get through to young people. The 政府 and 地元の health 当局 must 受託する that this 増加する in the teen pregnancy 率 is not just a 'blip'. 大臣s must think more carefully about their approach."

£63m spent on （選挙などの）運動をするs

More than £63 million has been spent in the past three years to 削減（する） the number of under-18s becoming 妊娠している. The 的 is to halve the 率 by 2010.

The 戦略 含むs 広げるing 接近 to the morning-after pill, which is now 利用できる from 化学者／薬剤師s and can be 問題／発行するd by school nurses in some areas.

The （選挙などの）運動をする is already seeing 重要な 改良s in teenage pregnancy 率s in Westminster, Ealing, Havering and Kingston.

Today the Family Planning 協会 解任するd 増加するs どこかよそで as a 一時的な glitch.

A spokeswoman for the organisation, which supports the 政府's teenage pregnancy 戦略, said: "It is too 早期に to 裁判官 it a 失敗.

"If the 人物／姿／数字s continue to 増加する in the next few years, we will say that there are definitely 問題／発行するs that need to be looked at.

"But you never get a solid downward trajectory - the picture is always a bit ragged."

Britain has the second-highest 率 of teenage conceptions in the western world, with more than 7,000 girls under 16 conceiving each year.

全体にわたる, teenage pregnancy 率s have fallen by around nine per cent since 1988. But 関心 is growing over the 失敗 to make a 重要な 衝撃 on 率s の中で the youngest girls.