Friday 26 August 2016

Lifelike baby dolls designed to deter teenage pregnancies actually have opposite effect, scientists find

Lifelike baby dolls designed to deter teenage pregnancies actually have opposite effect, scientists find Lifelike baby dolls that cry and are designed to stop teenage pregnancies actually increase the number of underage mothers, suggests new research.

The baby simulators form part of sex education classes across the world and are touted as a key weapon to discourage girls from having sex.

But a new study of the programme in Australia, published in The Lancet, found girls who took part were twice as likely to get pregnant and a third more likely to have an abortion than those who did not. The Daily Telegraph

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