British boy reportedly becomes a father at age 13

Saturday 14th February, 05:37 AM JST

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skipthesong at 02:00 PM JST - 14th February

I don't know about any of you out there, but seeing that photo of him and that girl playing PS3 while holding the kid is pretty disturbing. I know, you're going to say I'm old fashioned, but yo come on something has gotta give.

People laughed when Palin talked about abstinence, well, perhaps that would have been good in this situation.
Helter_Skelter at 04:48 PM JST - 14th February

Which is why the male has to be taught to use condoms...That is the true problem here.

Sure, males need to be taught to use condoms. But the true problem here is a 12 year old boy having sex with a 14 year old girl. Not a good idea.
Madverts at 05:07 PM JST - 14th February

Neutering for all chav's and their offspring at birth is the only answer.
Madverts at 05:26 PM JST - 14th February

"tough punishments"

And create another generation of sadomasochists?

Heh, no thanks. But I always like to see Americans pretending they know something about Britain from having seen a few old TV re-runs.
AlfGarnett at 05:33 PM JST - 14th February

Madverts: Then you obviously never been to Wapping. Used to be a community with respect, now full of feral kids who s parents let them sleep at each others houses and do adult things.

Them parents should get the birch and the kids sent to reform schools. What future has the kid got? Unless it are taking into care by social services. Also i bet they spend a life on the dole, and the more kids you have the more dosh you get, and housing bemefit!!!
Madverts at 05:45 PM JST - 14th February

" What future has the kid got?"

See my first point: neutering at birth.

We're into a third generation of people who have naver done a days graft in their lives.

And they're allowed to breed?
wuzzademcrat at 05:56 PM JST - 14th February

'Asked what he would do to support the child financially, Alfie asks in a small, high-pitched voice, “What’s financially?”'

Priceless.

But then, you can find 30-somethings in the UK's modern day Welfare State who'd give that response, in the same whiny, high-pitched voice.
Madverts at 06:00 PM JST - 14th February

"in the same whiny, high-pitched voice."

Ahh, they've begun the neutering?
likeitis at 07:07 PM JST - 14th February

But the true problem here is a 12 year old boy having sex with a 14 year old girl. Not a good idea.

Getting STDs and having kids is not a good idea. Consentual sex with adequate protection against those consequences is HARMLESS. Most males have doing solo sex since about that age. I scarcely think having a partner while using protection is going to make a difference except perhaps in the positive.
likeitis at 07:10 PM JST - 14th February

There's something very, very fishy about the whole setup.

Yeah. I think the mother here set the boy up to take the fall for somebody else.

And note that she knew what "financially" meant. Girls mature faster than boys. And they tend to be more clever about these things too.
SimondB at 07:12 PM JST - 14th February

Why didn't he use a condom? Think back boys to when you were 12 years old. Could you really imagine bowling into Boots and saying give us a packet of those.....no, no, not those ones, the ribbed ones. Apart from the fact he would not have had two pennies too his name.

Second thing.....Come on.....it was in Eastbourne. What else is there for young people to do in God's waiting room.

Thirdly and finally for now...Have to agree with an earlier poster about generational transfer of welfare dependency. Case happened here recently whee a 17 year old boy was shot accidentaly by the police. As the media focused on the drama turns out the 17 year old boy was soon to become the father of twins. His 16 year old partner already had a 2 year old. And his mother was two weeks away from giving birth to her tenth child!

Maybe it's just me being cynical but I don't see young Alfie and Chantelle ever going much further than the local welfare office.

What's it all about Alfie? I guess you'll never know.
Bento at 07:12 PM JST - 14th February

this could be the start of a great record breaking dynasty,if they train their daughter to become a parent early enough and maintain the effort over forthcoming decades, then by the time this boy is 78 he could be the head of a family with 6 living generations..now that would be something to boast about.
grafton at 09:43 PM JST - 14th February

Madverts at 06:00 PM JST - 14th February "in the same whiny, high-pitched voice." “Ahh, they've begun the neutering?”

Now that was priceless, today you get the gold stars for wit & wisdom.

“Put simply, you are still a child when you are 14 and, in a civilized society”

I think large parts of the U.K. have lost any claim to being civilised societies a long tome ago. These two children belong to a sub-culture (though there is no culture to it) that is taking over the U.K. where working for a living is nearly unknown. Children become the means by which they can live on state support for their entire lives while producing more (many more) of their own kind. And with current British governments way of doing things I expect yet another new law to be passed soon that will make what I have just written illegal. A classism law to protect the feelings of the under-class.

That boy is just one of the signs showing where Britain is going.
bushlover at 11:33 PM JST - 14th February

I hear in Britain you are not really grown up until about 30 ish when you can get into politics and pass laws to make sure you can keep the standard of living on welfare for your adolescent children and their children.
Hawkeye at 05:26 AM JST - 16th February

When I was a twelve year old boy, I only dreamed of having sex with teenage girls my age or older. Too bad he or she didn't use birth control so that they continue without having coitus interuptus due to the pregnancy. She sounds like a right little tart.