Prime Minister thinks teenage mums need more support
It’s all over the papers this morning – Gordon Brown talked about teenage pregnancy and being a teen mum in his speech to the Labour Party conference yesterday. He pledges to give teenage mums more support by building hostels specifically for 16 and 17 year old parents to live and be supported.
Here’s a bit of his speech:
“And I do think it’s time to address a problem that for too long has gone unspoken, the number of children having children. For it cannot be right, for a girl of 16, to get pregnant, be given the keys to a council flat and be left on her own.
“From now on, all 16- and 17-year-old parents who get support from the taxpayer will be placed in a network of supervised homes. These shared homes will offer not just a roof over their heads, but a new start in life where they learn responsibility and how to raise their children properly.
“That’s better for them, better for their babies and better for us all in the long run.”
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