"kids are having sex at an earlier and earlier age"..... can anyone explain why this is?

Can anyone explain *if* this is? I've still not heard anything conclusive saying that this is the case. Sure, the Victorians and their descendants this century liked to pretend that sex didn't happen, or at least that it didn't happen outside of marriage. That's pretty comprehensively proved to be false though.

A link with some historical background. So back in the Middle Ages, girls *married* at 14-16 was usual, and the only reason men didn't marry was because they couldn't support a family then. Shakespeare wrote Juliet as being 13, remember.

Granted, we've moved on a bit from the Middle Ages - with contraception, sex and marriage can be disconnected. Age of reaching sexual maturity is unlikely to be significantly affected though - if anything, medical data says that it's happening *earlier* with better diet and medical care (and possibly chemicals in food).

so many hundreds of thousands of them to be killed before they are even born

Yep - because it's not a child at that point, it's a collection of cells which *might* become a child. You may disagree, but it isn't your choice, it's the choice of the woman whose body this collection of cells is in.

Graham.