As I hopped online and checked the headlines on MSN, as I always do, I was intrigued by the link to “baby faced boy is father”
As I clicked on the link I read a disturbing story. In Britain, a tabloid printed that a 13-year-old, baby-faced boy is the father of a newborn. One of the youngest reported.
The mother is a 15-year-old girl. Reportedly, she was on birth control but missed a day. At the time on conception she was a girl of 14, he a boy of 12. I didn’t know you could get birth control this early.
According to the article England is known for a very high teen pregnancy, not as high as the U.S., but high. But this, to me this isn’t teen pregnancy, this is child pregnancy.
The article describes how the young, four-foot tall boy impregnated the much older looking girlfriend. They didn’t want to tell anyone the secret and abortion wasn’t an option. The boy seems to think he can be a good father, and is allowed to sleep at his girlfriends every night — even now.
The young boy’s father said he wants to have “the talk” with his young son too so there isn’t another baby.
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Is this incredulous and disturbing and sick to anyone else? How is this allowed to happen? This isn’t a national crisis; this is a crisis in parenting. And if nothing else the school should be teaching children what it means to have sex, what it means to have a child.
The fact that this boy thinks he could be a father is hard to handle. He says doesn’t have much pocket money.
At 13, much less 12, I didn’t know what sex was. And reading the story, about how sad this boy was after having sex I wonder just how much of a choice it could be for this boy. I have a feeling his girlfriend may have known a lot more what she was doing.
I am more than anything, deeply saddened by this story and hope that parents will do their part to at least impart understanding of the responsibilities of parenthood and sex with their young children. This shouldn’t be happening, and even if it’s just once, an anomaly, it’s once too much.
I just hope that this PUBLICITY will not encourage CHILDREN around the world . My GOD have mercy on us DEAR parents!