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At risk women, young need our aid in emergencies
News, Caspar Peek, Published on 14/07/2015
» Disasters, whether natural or man-made, have increasingly become a "normal" part of our news feeds, and because of this there is now a risk that we simply brush them off as we do with the rest of the items on our news feeds — by clicking out.
Plan seeks to avert ageing society crisis
News, Published on 13/12/2014
» The National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) is exploring how to tackle problems associated with the country's ageing population.
Hope springs maternal
Spectrum, Published on 16/11/2014
» Since Waros was a young girl, she longed to have a baby and a loving family of her own.
Thai teenage pregnancy rate rising
News, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 09/09/2014
» Thailand will not overcome its growing problem of teenage pregnancy without collaboration from all sectors of society, health experts said yesterday at a national conference.
Ignorance is fuelling teenage pregnancy
News, Published on 12/06/2014
» When mentioning “pregnant adolescent” many people tend to think of a “bad girl”, a girl of loose morals, dressed provocatively perhaps, drinking beer and frequenting the types of people no decent person would want to hang out with. After all, these girls display the typical behaviour we associate with the causes of teen pregnancy: drinking alcohol, having sex before marriage, having many or even multiple boyfriends twice her age, and not being interested in school. In a word, thoroughly shameless girls, and when they get pregnant it should come as no surprise.
Help teenage mums, don’t hurt them
News, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 19/03/2014
» What should we do when the teenage pregnancy rate in Thailand is among the highest in the world? Help them, or punish them for deviating from good-girl norms?
Thai teen pregnancy on the rise as sex education misses the young
AFP, Published on 17/01/2014
» Days away from giving birth and living apart from her family, 16-year-old Ying is one of a growing number of Thai teenagers to fall pregnant every year in a country where sex education is focused on the married.
Just 10 baht a day can save lives and boost economies
News, Published on 22/05/2013
» Would you save someone's life for 10 baht a day?
Teen pregnancy: Growing problem in Thailand
Jon Fernquest, Published on 08/03/2013
» Births in Thailand falling but teen births rising fast (43% in last 10 years). Govt looking to follow successful UK teen birth reduction program.
Thailand struggles with teen pregnancy
Reuters, Published on 08/03/2013
» When Mallika told her parents she was pregnant at 17, they pulled her out of school and ordered her to marry the baby's father. But the marriage didn't happen and the one-time aspiring singer now cares for her baby girl alone.