Young people are obsessed with sex. They see it is a way of proving how adult they are, a way of having fun, and they want to try it because they’ve heard so much about it. They are also at an age when they think they know it all and won’t listen to others. They’re having spontaneous sex and they’re oblivious to risks. The very least we can do in this situation is to try and make contraception normal and easily accessible.

Young people do not listen to adults because too much focus has been given to meeting their needs. They think the world revolves around them when they should be taught the need to be good citizens. We don’t need to become more liberal with children, we need to become more strict. We need to start teaching them that they are responsible for their actions and will suffer if they do something wrong. Only then can we turn the tide of the type of behaviour that no civilised society should bear

The problem of teenage pregnancies is one which affects all of society. Teenage pregnancies add a huge burden to housing and welfare – let alone the problems the child may encounter being raised by people who have little experience of the world and are little able to provide for him or her. Contraception is not the only answer but it is an answer. Making access to contraception more difficult would be a ludicrous idea. Why then, is the opposite equally ludicrous?

We are partly responsible for creating the problem by providing people who get pregnant with automatic housing assistance and a wealth of state handouts. Take away these and there will be much less reason for young people to get pregnant – or much more reason for them to choose other options than having the child themselves. By providing greater access to contraception we don’t deal with the cause but a symptom and this issue will not be dealt with until we start attacking its root.

The young people most at risk of getting pregnant are also the ones who are most vulnerable. By providing them with easy access to contraception we also get the opportunity to talk to them about safe sex and about other issues which may be bothering them. Without this access young people are lost to us and become feral.

Young people need to take responsibility for their own actions. They need to choose to seek help for if they don’t they wont be ready to make the difficult decisions necessary to change their lives. We can’t help those who don’t want to help themselves and if that means some people are lost to us and become feral, so be it.

Teenagers cannot be expected to know about contraception when they begin sexual experimentation. Oftentimes contraception is used incorrectly, which causes them to be ineffective. Misinformed youth can often take unnecessary risks because they are unaware of the potential consequences of their actions. The best way to educate youth on this matter is to make contraceptives readily available, along with the necessary information that they need to know, so that they can make their own informed decisions and act responsibly.

Young people feel trapped. They haven't got any freedom because mistakes they have made in the past have made adults around them question their trust. So to feel alive and feel like they can do something without being told they turn to their desire, wich includes boys. They'll find out that their friendsz have done something at everything turned out fine so they feel like they should try it and in the end, their situation turns out worst than their friendsz and they would end up pregnant but indefence adults just attack them after it and keep them in the house trapped and alwaysz angry at them when they find out and it would just make the the kids go out and do worst because it was lack of trust and freedom that brought them in that situation in the first place. I don't think that if you make contraception more available it would lower the level of teenage pregnancy because once the lack of trust and freedom starts they would turn to their desire more quickly because they know that a backup is available more easily.

Do you have any studies to support this point?

Whilst some young people may get pregnant as a way of milking the system or to gain respect it is a huge generalisation to say that this is true of the majority. Many young people get pregnant when they don’t want to; by making access to contraception easier we ensure at least some of them aren’t sucked into a lifetime of poverty.

Most young people who get pregnant do so because they want to, not through lack of education. They know by getting pregnant they can get state handouts and a council house. In some deprived areas they also get respect for being pregnant. Educating them is not going to change that.

It is unreasonable to expect that young people below the age of 16 will not have sex. The truth is that they do and we need to confront the reality of the situation rather than dealing with abstract notions of what should be so. It is also deeply unrealistic to imagine that young people will abstain from sex because they have been encouraged to do so. Evidence from America suggests such an approach is staggeringly unsuccessful.

We shouldn’t give people below the age of consent access to contraception, to do so implies a tacit approval of illegal behaviour. Instead we should teach people the dangers of getting pregnant and encourage abstinence as the best method for avoiding unwanted children.

Money doesn’t solve all problems but if providing access to contraception prevents at least some pregnancies then it must be worth the investment. No single thing will solve this problem and access to contraception would only be provided in conjunction with other forms of education and treatment. However, clearly contraception does work and making it more accessible would mean more people used it. Ergo, fewer pregnancies.

Once again the government imagines a problem can be solved simply by throwing money at it. We need to look at why young people choose to get pregnant, we need to find out the best ways of getting through to them the dangers of getting pregnant and we need to provide better access to mentors and guardians so young people decide to learn from people who’ve been through it before rather than their peers who aren’t the most wise.

While we should try and alter people's attitudes towards sex ,to do so without improving access to condoms means that there is one area where government or societies provision is falling short and possibly causing teen pregnancies to rise . By at improving access to contraception we're at least using all the options society has at it's disposal and hitting the problem of teenage pregnancies with everything we've got so the number of teenage pregancies is as small as it can be.

In the instances where unprotected sex happens it is usually because the parties involved have taken alcohol or other drugs, or else the man thinks it is 'uncool' to use protection. Increasing the number of condoms won't prevent these incidences from occurring - they will always happen anyway.

What we need to do is tackle some of the wider issues and problems affecting youth, and trying to alter their attitudes.