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Current Issues: October |
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| Carrie-Ann, 17, from Nottingham, gave birth to a baby boy, Jordan, 3 months ago. |  |
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Carrie-Ann says: "I was 14 when I lost my virginity. He was 15, my first proper boyfriend, and lived on the same road as me. "We went out together for 3 months before we slept together. We didn't ever talk about having sex - we were in my bedroom one day and it just happened. We didn't use any contraception. We just didn't think about that then. "I did have a few sex education lessons at school were they taught us how to put a condom on but that wasn't until I was 15. "I felt really dirty afterwards but i was glad I wasn't a virgin any more. It wasn't cool to be a virgin while I was at school. You would get called frigid. "I slept with him one more time after that and then we broke up. "He told everyone we'd had sex." Last July, Carrie-Ann gave birth to Jordan. He is the product of another 3 month relationship with a 16 year old boy who she no longer has any contact with. She says: "Jordan's Dad sometimes used a condom but we never thought about the consequences. "I've heard about what the Government are doing but I wouldn't pay any attention to any sort of advertising. "It would be better to let young girls like me, who are teenage mums, talk to other girls. She says: "I would have waited a lot longer to lose my virginity and have a baby if I'd have known what being a mum is really like. "The hardest thing is when Jordan is crying and I don't know what's wrong with him or how to shut him up." |
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