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Alfie, Chantelle and the sheer madness of sex education that teaches nothing about morality today.

Publication: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Publication Date: 18-FEB-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Alfie, Chantelle and the sheer madness of sex education that teaches nothing about morality today.(Features)

Article Excerpt
Byline: by Melanie Phillips

THE STORY of 13- year-old Alfie, who reportedly has become a father by 15-year-old Chantelle, is a fable for our tragically degraded times.

Most of the attention has focused upon Alfie, who looks about eight and doesn't even understand the word 'financial'. But while Alfie's youth is exceptional, this situation is not.

Whether or not Alfie is the father of baby Maisie or whether that honour goes to one of Chantelle's reputed other boyfriends, the fact is that the length and breadth of this country there are many Chantelles, having sex and often getting pregnant while under age.

Britain's rate of teenage pregnancy is the highest in Western Europe.

Each one of these cases is a personal tragedy, and not just for the babies who are thus conceived.

Children who bear children are condemned to a kind of half-life of adultified childhood and then infantilised adulthood, with a catastrophic disruption of their normal development to maturity.

The appalling rate of family breakdown is a crucial part of this story.

It is linked to premature sexual activity, creating a vicious cycle of family fragmentation and teenage promiscuity. More and more...

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