Kind of reminds me of a South Park episode where the kids got confused by their sex ed teachers and ended up with the boys and girls at war. The message being that some topics are best handled by parents who know what their children are best ready to understand. And with the message also being that some parents had just as soon pass the buck on to someone else rather than communicating with their children on certain subjects.

But as provocative as the headline might sound, what England is talking about doing is simply beginning the process of helping children to become more self aware but not really teach other things until the children are older and better able to understand.

Britain has among the highest teen pregnancy rates in Europe, with government figures showing that about 39,000 girls under age 18 became pregnant in 2006, the year for which the most recent figures are available. More than 7,000 of those girls were younger than 16.