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Net Blamed for Teen Pregnancies
Techtree News Staff, Jul 10, 2007 1949 hrs ISTShanghai's first hotline for unexpected pregnancies released official figures ahead of World Population Day tomorrow, with some shocking revelations.
This one definitely does not qualify for Mumbai to go the Shanghai way...
Shanghai's first hotline for unexpected pregnancies released official figures ahead of World Population Day tomorrow, with some shocking revelations.
Nearly half the women who've been calling the hotline are teenaged girls, some of them even younger than 15 years of age.
Of the more than 20,000 teenage girls who've been calling the hotline over the past two years, nearly 46 percent have had sex with boys whom they met on the Internet.
State media quoted Dr Zhang Zhengrong from No 411 Hospital that oversees the hotline as confirming these figures.
Reportedly, most of the fathers did the vanishing act after learning about the pregnancy, and some expectant girls did not even know the fathers' names. Nearly 10 percent of the girls have had as many as three abortions. Some of them don't even realize they are pregnant until it's too late.
Dr Zhang has put the blame on adult Web sites, videos, and books for this situation, urging society at large to look closely at the problem.
She said her hospital surveyed nearly 2,043 parents; 2,680 teachers; and 1,577 teenagers; only to find that just 7.9 percent of parents speak to their children about sex, and that almost 79 percent of high school and university students get their ideas about sex entirely from the Internet...
Shanghai's first hotline for unexpected pregnancies released official figures ahead of World Population Day tomorrow, with some shocking revelations.
Nearly half the women who've been calling the hotline are teenaged girls, some of them even younger than 15 years of age.
Of the more than 20,000 teenage girls who've been calling the hotline over the past two years, nearly 46 percent have had sex with boys whom they met on the Internet.
State media quoted Dr Zhang Zhengrong from No 411 Hospital that oversees the hotline as confirming these figures.
Reportedly, most of the fathers did the vanishing act after learning about the pregnancy, and some expectant girls did not even know the fathers' names. Nearly 10 percent of the girls have had as many as three abortions. Some of them don't even realize they are pregnant until it's too late.
Dr Zhang has put the blame on adult Web sites, videos, and books for this situation, urging society at large to look closely at the problem.
She said her hospital surveyed nearly 2,043 parents; 2,680 teachers; and 1,577 teenagers; only to find that just 7.9 percent of parents speak to their children about sex, and that almost 79 percent of high school and university students get their ideas about sex entirely from the Internet...
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