Pre-teen pregnancies are rising in the Philippines – critics blame the Catholic Church

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Pre-teen pregnancies are rising in the Philippines – critics blame the Catholic Church

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Experts fear the country’s culture of ‘prevailing conservatism’, created by Catholicism, is a barrier to contraception and sex education

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Probably both. From my limited understanding the country is so poor, sex tourism of girls (and probably boys) has become normalized.

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