Teenage mothers: We can be role models
Sarah Aouamria, 17, who is due to give birth in nine weeks with her 21-year-old boyfriend at her side, is one of 64 girls attending a new course in Haringey and Enfield on how to manage adolescence and parenthood.
She said: “There is a very negative opinion of young mums, but we are not all like that. We don't all smoke, we haven't fallen pregnant to get a house and we are not all single. I am determined to do A-levels and will not fulfil the stereotype of a teenage mother.”
She backed the call for a London sex czar, adding: “The standard of sex education is so different it would help if someone tried to even it out.”
Casita Sumner, 36, a former teenage mother who runs the course for 14 to 18-year-olds, said: “The girls feel very strongly about the negative view society has. They still face prejudice. One girl was on the bus heavily pregnant and an old man started pointing his walking stick at her and shouting.”
