Sex education needed at home

If the country has to make any breakthrough to reduce the number of underage pregnancies, parents will have to play a bigger role, says an article on the website www.scol.com.cn. The following is an excerpt:

Shanghai's first ever hotline for teenage girls with unwanted pregnancies says it has helped more than 2,000 girls in the last three years. Most of these girls, the youngest being 13 years old, had boyfriends on campus.

The rise in the number of teenage abortions in the city has once again left the Chinese society stumbling for answers.