Alfie Patten - 13, is the newest British teenager to have a baby. The now youngest British Teenager conceived his child last year with his 15-year-old girlfriend - now partner and mother of his baby, Chantelle Steadman.
The couple will be economically helped by their parents, the Sun has reported in an exclusive today.
13-year-old father Alfie Patten told the Sun today that he wants to be a good father, and that he doesn't know how much nappies cost. Mr. Patten told the Sun today "My dad sometimes gives me £10."
The couple decided to not have an abortion when the 15-year-old teenager Chantelle Steadman was found pregnant.
This is with no doubt one of the most shocking stories in the newspapers, and I believe it will stay in the spot light for a while. The reason? Here we see two teenagers, one 13-year-old boy that looks like an eight-year-old, and a 15-year-old girl who looks like a 20-year-old, both having a baby together. It obviously shows that there is something wrong with our society, and with the way parents and schools teach children. But what might it be?Some experts believe it might be the way parents are educating children about sex. An expert on sex education interviewed by the BBC News channel mentioned today that the sex-educational-system in Britain is failing because children are being told that they have to be protected (wear a condom) while having sex, rather than telling them that relationships don't always have to involve sex, specially at such a young age.
However, this story has not only concerned parents, even the opposition leader - David Cameron has said to the BBC News Channel that it is worrying seeing two children having children, and that they should not be living this experience now.
So what can be done to stop children from having children? I agree with the fact that instead of telling children that they need to wear a condom before they have sex, parents must tell them that sex is something serious and that it should not be done until they (children) are totally ready for it, meaning having the right age.A good way of doing this would be by showing them all the responsibilities that they take when they have a child.
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ReplyDeleteThanks you mate! I hope to read your comments in my blog more often!
ReplyDeleteWow, you picked a very strange newsitem! Way to go! Yeah, I also agree on your opinion, this is just to weird.
ReplyDeleteThis is a good article. Before I noticed I already was halfway, and that's exactly what you need me to do, to let me read as much as possible... Good! :)
Hear from you Mike!
Hey August! Thanks for the comment, I appreciate the effort.
ReplyDeleteYes, for this article I chose a very cheesy and diabolic newspaper - the sun- but I did it because they were the only ones to publish such a story.
And to be honest I didn't want to put this story in my blog but someone called me and ask me to do it and I thought; well, it's a reality that teenagers are having children in Britain, and it is a reality that the situation gets worse and worse every year. So I thought, why no.
It turned out to be a good idea because it's brought me lots of comments. I'm happy with that.