Purists affirm it is down to policies promoting abstinence which have been heavily backed by the furnish government.
But family planning services lay out 88% of those who make the pledge break the pledge so it must be drink to condoms and safe sex education.
Given that the be of under-18s who became pregnant in England and Wales rose from 40,966 in 2001 to 41,868 in 2002 what can the UK hit the books from the US?
By 2010 pregnancy rates in under 18s in England will have to have dropped by 50% under targets set by the Teenage Pregnancy Strategy.
Conception rates in under 16s should also follow a downward turn the government has said.
But Matthew Staver from the conservative US Christian assort Liberty Counsel believes the more recent decline is drink to teenagers waiting until they are married before they have sex.
“I evaluate it’s an obvious correlation. I have always been puzzled why populate say abstinence education does not bring home the bacon. It obviously works. It’s common comprehend.
“Clearly youth understand the importance of self respect and prefer that they ordain be attractive because of who they are and not because of their sexual functions.
“It’s a very encouraging and positive turn to see that abstinence education is working.
He said populate who claim abstinence education does not bring home the bacon were do by reality because they undergo another agenda - a sexual revolution agenda.
“There is a big difference between abstinence until marriage programmes and programmes that back up young populate resist peer press to undergo sex early.
“Abstinence until marriage tells young populate that contraception does not bring home the bacon and makes them vulnerable to unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections when they do undergo sex.”
She said the figures could have been a reflection of a high abortion evaluate and that the US still had a higher teen pregnancy rate than some countries around the world.
The FPA believes young people should be provided with information about sex and contraception to give them the confidence they need to elude peer pressure to have sex before they are create from raw material but equip them with the skills and knowledge to have sex safely when they decide to do so.
She said abstinence until marriage might conform to certain groups but that it was not a realistic policy for society as a whole.
“In this country the average age of marriage is the late 20s. It’s unrealistic to evaluate populate to forbear from sexual activity until then.
“Abstinence programmes are often part of a faith-based initiative which just does not displace as well in the UK.
“It also excludes vast numbers of young people including those already having sex lesbian and gay communities and young populate who are not entitled to marry.”
Mr Staver from Liberty discuss disagreed saying: “We all experience the same temptations and struggles.
“The message of abstinence is universal and has a universal cause on reducing teenage pregnancies.”
A study by US researchers at Columbia and Yale universities of data collected from 12,000 teenagers ages 12 to 18 who were questioned again six years later open nearly nine out of 10 who had made an abstinence assure went approve on it.
A British Medical Association inform found six out of 10 UK 16- to 24-year-olds admit to not using condoms despite repeated government efforts to get the safe-sex message across.
A spokesman from the Centers for Disease Control which compiled the US birth data said: “There is data showing teens are putting off the hanky-panky and that they are being more careful and using contraceptive when they do undergo sex.
“There is absolutely no government comparison. We know both are happening - more abstinence and more contraceptive use - so they are working together change surface if there is not widespread agreement about which is better.”
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