The search for a scapegoat for the number of teen pregnancies seems endless. We blame too little sex education then too much. We blame celebrities then we come to our senses. We blame parents yet at the same time we seek to lock them out of decisions about how to raise children, most recently with the suggestion that parents will have no right to opt their young children out of sex education class...

At a time when 50% of new-born children in England and Wales are bastards, we are told that an epidemic of mugging, violence, intimidation and weapons crime is concentrated amongst teenagers, i.e. those born some 13 to 19 years ago, between 1989 and 1995. During this period bastardy was running at about half its present level. If there is a causal link between bastardy and teen-on-teen violence, w...

What a sad world we live in when parents have become so petrified about their children’s safety that nine out of ten children do not play outside!  Mums and dads are worried about the rise of teen gangs, youth crime, yobbish behaviour, and most of all fear that their child will be abducted from the streets. But

A TEENAGER who rescued two children who got into difficulty as they swam in a deep-water pool has been praised in the Scottish Parliament.

JONNY Hiles’ father said today that prosecutors were confident a British teen will be sent to Greece to face trial over his manslaughter.

Two under-age torture stories in one day. Yesterday the Star reported that two of the thugs responsible for the sickening torture and murder of Michael Moss are due for parole. One has already been released. Then, a few hours later, news came in of two children aged nine and eleven being tortured by two eleven-year-olds, who used knives, bricks and lighted cigarettes on their victims.  We still ...

Our story on a new zero level for teen drink driving was full of people confidently deploying facts. Yet their facts rarely seemed to me to support their case. And certainly didn't prove it. Let me take you through it....

On teen pregnancy rates. Hackney, one of London’s most deprived boroughs, saw a 25% drop in its teen pregnancy rate; Blackburn, also with high levels of deprivation, saw a comparable improvement. Have they controlled for a change in the local population? This is very much a question, not an assertion, for I don’t really know. But anecdotally I’m

During the summer break, our pre-teen Son David spent a week in London with his Grandma. That gave Karen and myself free run of the house for more than just a weekend and we were determined to make the most of it, doing things we couldn’t readily do with Children. However, as we don’t go out

Now, this story made me smile.. A young 18-year-old teen mother in Oklahoma City took out an intruder to protect herself and her 3-month-old baby on New Year's Eve, less than a week after the baby's father died of cancer. Sarah McKinley said that on Christmas Day, the same day of her husband's funeral, a man later identified as Justin Martin dropped by, claiming that he was a neighb...