Sex education in a mess

21st May 2010

Teenage mothers are becoming more common in Poland

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Sex education in schools is failing pupils and contributing to the high rate of teenage pregnancies in Poland, health and education experts have warned.

Every year some 20,000 teenage Polish girls give birth making the country one of Europe’s leaders when it comes to the number of mothers below the legal age of consent.

Without better education, groups advocating better family planning claim, this figure will remain high and perhaps increase.

“Young people have limited access to knowledge,” said Aleksandra Jozefowska from the Ponton Group of Sex Educators. “Schools have no reliable sex education, and in many cases the subject simply does not exist or only crops up when teach ...

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