Encouraging teenage children not to have sex is a difficult task and one, it appears, we are not good at. Britain has the highest rate of teen pregnancy in Europe, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are rocketing, with cases of syphilis rising by 870 per cent between 1992 and 2002.
The increase is despite a Government strategy of sex education based on giving children the facts and letting them make their own decisions.
But the failure to reduce the numbers of young mothers and sexually transmitted infections has led to radical alternatives. Next month, Silver Ring Thing, an American faith organisation preaching abstinence, arrives in the UK for nine youth events at which teenagers will be encouraged to buy a 10 silver ring symbolising a vow of chastity until marriage.
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