Daytek <Daytek@isp.com> wrote in
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> And WingedMessenger did psot words of wisdom:::
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>> "::darkshadows::" <blood@thirsty.net> wrote in
>> news:blgcp4l3r9dvvogau1bha0qeb0dd630tnt@4ax.com:
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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.
>> >
>> >
>> > He's 13. He scarcely looks 10. And according to a British tabloid,
>> > he's a father.
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> > Asked what he would do to support the child financially, Alfie asks
>> > in a small, high-pitched voice, "What's financially?"
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> > "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.
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> > But the country's reputation as Europe's teen pregnancy capital has
>> > been an embarrassment to politicians.
>> >
>> > In 1999 then-Prime Minister Tony Blair described Britain's record
>> > on pregnancies as shameful and vowed to turn it around.
>> >
>> > "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.
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> > "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.
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> > 'We made a mistake'
>> > Chantelle and Alfie have reportedly pledged to raise the child as
>> > best they can.
>> >
>> > "We know we made a mistake but I wouldn't change it now," Chantelle
>> > was quoted by The Sun as saying.
>> >
>> > 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.
>> >
>> > "It hasn't really dawned on him," Patten, 45, was quoted as saying
>> > in the paper.
>> >
>> > "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."
>> >
>> > 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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> HEY! Slow down. My first sex was with a much older girl who forced me
> to do it. She forced me to do it several times with her. And she said
> she would tell on me if I told anyone. I was afraid of my parents, my
> church, and the cops coming after me - so I never told. I thought it
> was always the boy's fault for doing it with a girl. I've never been
> the same since. Look what she turned me into - a pussy addict! Girls
> have no shame!
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I stated my opinion, my democratic right, as indeed have you.
Mercury.
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