Internet 'meetings' linked to pregnancy

SHANGHAI: Nearly half of the pregnant teens in Shanghai were impregnated by boys they met on the Internet, a local doctor has said.

Zhang Zhengrong, a doctor at No 411 Hospital who oversees the city's first-aid hotline for pregnant teens, said 46 percent of the more than 20,000 teenage girls who called the hotline over the past two years said they had had sex with boys they met on the Internet.

And most of the fathers disappeared after learning about the pregnancy, and some of the mothers did not even know the fathers' names.