"::darkshadows::" <blood@thirsty.net> wrote in
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> U.K. boy becomes dad at 13, newspaper says
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> The Associated Press
> 3:57 PM EST February 13, 2009
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> A British schoolboy fathered a child with his then 14-year-old
> girlfriend, making Alfie Patten one of the youngest parents ever in
> Britain, The Sun Times reported on Friday.
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> He's 13. He scarcely looks 10. And according to a British tabloid,
> he's a father.
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> Baby-faced and only 4 feet tall, the boy, Alfie Patten, was just 12
> when he impregnated Chantelle, now 15, The Sun reported Friday. Shown
> in a video posted Friday on the tabloid's Web site, the diminutive
> Alfie takes the newborn girl in his arms.
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> Asked what he would do to support the child financially, Alfie asks in
> a small, high-pitched voice, "What's financially?"
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> The girl was taking birth control pills but missed one, the newspaper
> reported. Friends and relatives left the family home near Eastbourne,
> about 70 miles southeast of London, Friday without speaking to
> reporters gathered outside. The teenagers could not immediately be
> contacted.
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> The Sun did not say whether any tests were conducted to prove the
> boy's paternity. The paper did not offer any immediate comment when
> asked whether it had paid the family for the story.
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> Police and child services in Eastbourne, in southeast England, said in
> a statement that they were "aware of a 14-year-old girl that had
> become pregnant as the result of a relationship with a 12-year-old
> boy," adding that they were offering support to both young people.
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> Alfie's front page picture has sparked renewed debate about teen
> pregnancy in Britain. The country has one of the highest teen
> pregnancy rates in Europe, and government figures show that about
> 39,000 girls under age 18 became pregnant in 2006. More than 7,000 of
> those girls were younger than 16.
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> "I don't know the individual details of the case, but of course I
> think all of us would want to avoid teenage pregnancies," Prime
> Minister Gordon Brown said Friday.
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> Britain had 27 births per 1,000 women aged 15-19 between 2000 and
> 2005, according to a report published by Population Action
> International. Comparable figures are 10 per 1,000 for Spain, 8 in
> 1,000 for France, and 5 in 1,000 for The Netherlands.
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> Britain's teen pregnancy rate, however, is still far below that of the
> United States, which registers 44 births per 1,000 women aged 15-19
> and are more line with English-speaking countries such as Australia
> and New Zealand, which respectively have 17 and 27 births per 1,000
> women between 15 and 19, according to the report.
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> But the country's reputation as Europe's teen pregnancy capital has
> been an embarrassment to politicians.
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> In 1999 then-Prime Minister Tony Blair described Britain's record on
> pregnancies as shameful and vowed to turn it around.
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> "Put simply, you are still a child when you are 14 and, in a civilized
> society, children should not be having children," he said at the time.
> The government has since poured millions of pounds (dollars) into
> advertising and educational campaigns.
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> Educating youngsters
> Brook, a U.K. group that provides sexual health advice to people under
> 25, said teen pregnancies had fallen by about 12 percent since 1998,
> but more had to be done.
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> "It can be easy to concentrate on young women but young men need as
> much support and information," Brook's chief executive, Simon Blake,
> said.
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> In a move last year to tackle the high teen pregnancy rate, British
> education officials announced they would start introducing sex
> education earlier in English schools. Beginning next year, children as
> in grades as low as kindergarten will be given basic sex education.
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> Tony Kerridge, of the sexual health group Marie Stopes International,
> praised the move, but local lawmaker Nigel Waterson said the pregnancy
> raised "huge questions" about whether British children were being
> educated about sex - at the expense of learning about healthy
> relationships.
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> 'We made a mistake'
> Chantelle and Alfie have reportedly pledged to raise the child as best
> they can.
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> "We know we made a mistake but I wouldn't change it now," Chantelle
> was quoted by The Sun as saying.
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> Alfie's father, Dennis - who reportedly has nine children - said his
> son told him it was the first time he had sex. He was reportedly
> allowed to sleep over at the girl's house.
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> "It hasn't really dawned on him," Patten, 45, was quoted as saying in
> the paper.
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> "I will talk to him again and it will be the birds and bees talk," he
> said. "Some may say it's too late but he needs to understand so there
> is not another baby."
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> Britain's youngest-known father was said to be a 12-year-old boy in a
> suburb north of London who impregnated a young neighbor in 1998.
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These filthy little bastards and all like them should be sewn up or
castrated. The only difference between these and dogs on the street is
that dogs have 4 legs. Another burden for the bloody taxpayer.
Mercury.
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