"Baby robot" to prevent teen pregnancy brings the opposite effect of urging pregnancy


ByHiba Haba

In countries like Australia and the United Kingdom, there are schools that incorporate baby robots into sex education that allow them to simulate their living with children. By experiencing how hard the newly born mother is struggling, there was a purpose to prevent pregnancy from sexual intercourse, but in practice it was found that it had the effect of promoting pregnancy .

Magic dolls: no quick fix for teenage pregnancy - The Lancet
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)31411-8/

Study: Robot baby dolls do not curb teen pregnancies. In fact, they may increase abortions. - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/08/26/study-robot-baby-dolls-dont-curb-teen-pregnancies-in-fact-they-may-increase-abortions/

The baby robot adopted in some schools in Europe and the United States has a function to express emotion such as controlling the movement of the baby robot with a computer and wanting to go to the toilet, getting hungry, feeling bad, etc. In a robot, students can live with their baby robots during weeks of programming to simulate their mothers.


A large scale survey was conducted on about 3000 girls aged 13 to 15 in Western Australia in Australia to find out if the baby robot really has the effect of suppressing pregnancy. The survey is to lend a baby robot to 1267 out of about 3000 people on weekends only, let 1567 girls receive general sex education, and track the lives of the girls until the age of 20.

As a result of the survey, it was 4% of the total who got pregnant by the age of 20 in the group who received general sex education, but in the group who lent the baby robot, the ratio of those who got pregnant even once at the age of 20 Resulted in 8% of the total. It has been pointed out that baby robots have the effect of promoting pregnancy, rather than suppressing pregnancy in their teenage age, with nearly twice the difference between them.

It is not clear why the pregnancy rate of the group of baby robots is higher than the group who received general sex education, but Professor Sally Brinkmann who led the survey said, "Baby robots are numerous I have a good side, but I was not able to lose my interest in pregnancy by young people. "

ByThomas Pompernigg

Also, Janet Collins, a counselor for children in the UK who has adopted a baby robot, said, "I want to turn off my baby robot because my baby robot was borrowed from my mother who lent me a baby robot, I have consulted that "I have become a child who felt that I can take care of a real baby even by myself through care of a baby robot, I think that it tends to actually become pregnant." It is.

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