In his address to the Labour Party conference, Brown announced the measure but gave no indication of how it would work in practice.
Ann Furedi, chief executive of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service, described the announcement as "an ill-thought out sop to an ill-informed section of public opinion".
"This measure ignores the huge differences between individual young people's ability and support to care for their children and does not address the complex problems they may face," she added.
Simon Blake, chief executive of sex advice charity Brook, said the speech left a lot of questions to be answered. "We are all absolutely committed to high quality support with housing available for young women but that is very different to the way this has been described today and I'm really concerned," he said.
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