But these statistics rarely appear in a neutral context. At worst they are presented in a doomsday scenario which invites us to imagine what it will be like to live in a country where the state can no longer afford to provide a proper pension and a shrinking young workforce is required to slave away at the coal-face to provide even the most basic level of subsistence for a shambling mass of largely unemployable wrinklies. It wasn't long ago, Mullan observes, that society's humanity was judged by the way it looked after its old people. Having a baby is a full-time responsibility.
Babies are expensive and hard work.
Everything revolves around the baby. A baby is for the rest of your life. They also encourage classes to discuss other consequences of under age and unprotected sex, particularly the risks of contracting sexually transmitted diseases, which have increased alarmingly in recent years. But the quality and quantity of sex education across all schools varies widely. It is up to individual schools to decide on their sex education policy and curriculum.