[Osem]

Nobody should be want to stigmatise or neglect girls who've made a genuine mistake (or indeed their offspring) but it seems to me that our benefit, health and education systems have evolved to accommodate and even normalise teenage pregnancy. Surely the various agencies and society in general ought to be doing far more to drive home the message to our young people that when it comes to pregnancy, irresponsibility isn't acceptable and that the welfare state will not simply continue to pick up the tab for those who blatantly ignore that message.