Ruth Alexander
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4,250 appearances
120 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2011
last heard Aug 2018
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And the thing is, the rate of teenage pregnancy has been falling sharply.
It's fallen by half over the past two decades, and that is truly one of the US's great success stories, according to the programme director of the national campaign, Bill Albert, who we've been talking to.
We've had a look at this, and we've used the same method using the latest set of complete data, which is from 2010, and that puts the figure much lower.
It suggests that one in four teenage girls in the US become pregnant.
Well, some more recent data suggests it could already be even lower than that, though.
The US teenage birth rate for 2013 is about a fifth lower than it was three years earlier.
We don't have abortion data, though, I must say that.
That's right.
But now, to sum up, unless there has been a big rise in the number of abortions happening, we think the rate of American teenage girls becoming pregnant could have gone down to one in five.
Well, while the US has far fewer teenagers getting pregnant than it did 20 years ago, as we were just discussing, its teenagers still have babies at a much higher rate than in other richer developed countries like the UK.
We don't have pregnancy data for the UK, but we do know that the number of births have been going down in a similar way.
However, Professor Roger Ingham from the University of Southampton, who advised the government for 12 years on its strategy to reduce teen pregnancy, says more could be done.
But while Roger Ingham thinks sex education is effective at reducing teen pregnancies, evidence from the United States suggests that can't be the whole story, because there, programmes are different in every state, and yet the decline in pregnancies has occurred across the whole country.
I have.
No.
This number's actually from the Mayor of London's office and they in turn got the number from the Metropolitan Police in the capital.
So we should be clear right from the start, we're talking about London and we don't have that level of detail for the UK anyway.
No.
According to the Metropolitan Police, there were nearly 13,000 hate crimes in London last year.
358 of them were anti-Semitic.
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