Teen pregnancy prevention gets education, monitoring boosts
SUNDAY, JUNE 03, 2018
The Education Ministry will include a test on sex education and life skills in the Ordinary National Educational Test (Onet) from this year forward as a part of efforts to prevent teen pregnancy.
It’s bad enough that the Philippines has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in the world, with 24 babies born to teenage mothers every hour, or more than 500 babies a day. It’s terrible that there are 10-year-old mothers, as in the case of the child in Zamboanga City who was impregnated by her grandfather.