Statistics on the Nationmaster website show that New Zealand has the dubious honour of being placed third highest in world tables of both teenage pregnancy and child maltreatment deaths. Nationmaster, which pulls together data from sources such as the CIA World Fact Book, United Nations and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development shows that…

Many schools have recently refused to participate in a nationwide programme to vaccinate young girls against the human papillomavirus which protects against two main types of cervical cancer. One of the reasons for their refusal to participate in the scheme are that young women may become sexually active at too young an age. Cervical cancer…