Saturday 17 March 2007

Parents not best placed to advise children

This news was long time ago which was published on The Independent , 11 Nov 2005. It was about the idea of parents are no more the best place to advise their children on contraception and abortion.

It all started with the newly introduce guideline from the government. Sue Axon, who is divorced with five children, was challenging the on the right of under-16s to have an abortion without their parents' consent or knowledge.

Backing for the guidlines, Nathalie Lieven, for the FPA, said that "parents were no longer necessarily the best people to advise a child", and that the traditional "paternalistic approach" that assumed they were ran contrary to social changes in Europe over the last 20 years.
Read More Here from the news.

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