Pregnant teenagers ‘obeying nature’s law’

TEENAGE girls who get pregnant “behind the bike sheds” are only obeying nature’s law and should not be condemned out of hand, an expert said yesterday.

Dr Laurence Shaw said women were programmed by 2 million years of evolution to have babies in their late teens and early twenties.

Nature intended women to become mothers when young, and for their fertility to decline while they raised their children, he said.