DAD at 13, Mum at 14 (Daily Echo October 24), is it any wonder when those at the top think they can reduce pregnancies by teaching them about contraception in schools?

All they are doing in fact is teaching them what to do and how to do it, and when it does not seem to be working, they decide to teach them the same, but at an earlier age.

Then, later on, when a teenager gets pregnant, when the council is forced by law to house the mum and baby at our expense, where they can have their boyfriends in all day and all night, doing what they taught them in school, and get paid for it, they think: “This is the life!”

They then find they can even get more spending money if they have another baby.

The country has gone mad – and they wonder why we have the highest rate of teenage pregnancies in the western world.

KEN ADAMS, Glen Road, Parkstone, Poole