Thursday, 29 May 2014

TO GET BETTER AT LOOKING AFTER YOUNG PEOPLE WE NEED COMMON SENSE (Letter to Dom Post, May 23)

I haven’t got any expertise to offer, as do the health professionals who want to improve teenage mental wellbeing (We need to get better at looking after young people, A9, May 23), but I’ve got some common sense.

 

What needs discussing in reference to safety from abuse, social exclusion and bullying is girls abused by their boyfriends’ casual attitude to sex in getting them pregnant and then taking off, girls denied a normal, carefree teenage lifestyle by pregnancy and childbirth, and girls who are bullied by parents or boyfriends into abortion.

 

Julia du Fresne

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