THOUGHTLEADERS: Teenage Pregnancy is a crisis in South Africa; what does the law say why is the law not implemented?
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GUEST: LISA VETTEN - research and project consultant in the faculty of humanities at the University of Johannesburg
‘Teen pregnancies, other social ills prevalent in fatherless homes’
The Executive Director of the Family Policy Institute, Errol Naidoo, says broken family structures are the biggest contributors to the high number of teenage pregnancies in the country.
A significant number of teenagers under the age of 16 gave birth on Christmas and New Year’s Day, the youngest being a 12-year-old girl from the Eastern Cape.
This has raised alarm and some men have been charged with statutory rape