Brenda Almond

Professor Brenda Almond is Emeritus Professor of Moral and Social Philosophy at the University of Hull, and also serves as President of the Philosophical Society of England and Vice-President of the Society for Applied Philosophy, the journal of which Almond co-edited, along with conservative activist and academic Anthony O'Hear (adviser to conservative think tanks the Social Affairs Unitand Reform)

Views

According to the Family Education Trust (FET), Almond wrote 'a devastating critique of the government’s teenage pregnancy strategy' for the Daily Mail newspaper. ‘[F]ar from promoting restraint or commitment,the entire emphasis of this politically correct system is on the so-called ‘sexual rights’ of young people. FET said she was particularly critical of the prevalent approach to sex education in schools ‘with its concentration on self-gratification and its aggressive refusal ever to condemn any form of personal behaviour, no matter how destructive’ and lamented the fact that this ‘nonjudgmental attitude has … become the new secular religion of our times, with any attempt to raise issues of morality now regarded as a form of heresy’.

Affiliations

• Family Education Trust - sponsor since spring 2010

Publications

Almond is author of The Fragmenting Family, published by Oxford University Press, a subject on which she addressed the Family Education Trust annual conference in 2006.

Resources

• Professor Brenda Almond, We'll never end our teenage pregnancy epidemic until we admit what's REALLY causing it’, Daily Mail, 26 February 2010.