Sex & chores - how school life has changed
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| 08:31 UK time, Thursday, 23 March 2006
As Wendy shares her school days memories from the 1950s, with lessons in how to properly hang out washing to dry, in Wrexham plans are being considered which include giving out the morning after pill to pupils in one secondary school.
'Nameless' and others are concerned about the latest way to combat unwanted pregnancies: "My only worry if this goes ahead is whether, if contraception is so easily available, this may create more pressure for girls (and boys too), to say 'yes', when they'd really rather say 'no'."
Meanwhile, school life was different in the '50s. Wendy says: "We were first taught how to clean a kitchen, lay the table and wash clothes and put them on the line the correct way."
has more information on the plan to give out contraceptives in schools.
