If the original post had simply questioned whether providing contraception for sexually active pre-teens was a good idea or not, instead of using it to demonstrate the failure of British society and the impotence of socialism, I'm sure the thread would have followed an entirely different (and possibly much more constuctive) path.

In my long life in Britain I've never met or even come close to a preteen mother and only too a very few mothers who became pregnant outside a long-term relationship. The majority of single parents in my experience are divorcees. Just like in USA, I bet.

But you can make the news say whatever you want it to say if you're sufficiently selective, can't you?

As for your remarks about the health implications, I cannot comment apart from saying I would prefer a very young girl didn't get pregnant to having a child she couldn't look after or brings up in wretched conditions.