Wednesday, March 17, 2004
Teenage pregnancy in Stoke
There is an interesting report published by the West Midlands Public Health Observatory looking at teenage pregnancy in the West Midlands. Unfortunately, Stoke (North Stoke - page 4 of the report) has the highest teenage pregnancy rate in the West Midlands (North Stoke covers areas such as Abbey, Brookhouse, Burslem and Hanley).
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Thursday, March 04, 2004
An inert grey blur: depressed in the midst of plenty
Following on from his earlier article this week in which he looked at the association between increasing prosperity and increasing unhappiness, Chuck Colson (Breakpoint) explores the link in this article between increasing prosperity and increasing levels of depression.
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Tuesday, March 02, 2004
Society for the Protection of Unborn Children - Conference
There is a European conference being held in London on the 26-27 March. The title of the conference is: "Defending human life in the enlarged European Union from conception until natural death", and is being organised by the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children.
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The CARE Trust
CARE is a Christian charity involved in caring, campaigning and communicating across the UK. CARE is committed to being part of the answer in a society which so often asks 'who cares'? Check out the website and keep up-to-date with what CARE is involved in. It has some very good pages on 'dealing with unwanted pregnancies'.
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Miserable in the midst of plenty
An interesting article from Chuck Colson (Breakpoint), investigating how increasing prosperity seems to be associated with increasing unhappiness.
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