UPDATE: several other teenage boys claim they are the baby’s father. This story is getting worse…..
Another day, another example of the travesty that says you need a licence to drive a car but any idiot person can bring a child into the world.
Meet Alfie Patton and his girlfriend Chantelle. He is 13 years old although he looks more like 8 and his voice hasn’t yet broken. Alfie became a father four
days ago when his girlfriend Chantelle Steadman gave birth a little girl, Maisie
Roxanne. Chantelle is an older woman. She is 15. They had sex once when Alfie was 12. Oh Lord give me strength to keep typing…….
Alfie has told how he and Chantelle decided against an abortion after
discovering she was pregnant.
Reports The Sun:
The shy lad, whose voice has not yet broken, said: “I thought it would be good
to have a baby. “I didn’t think about how we would afford it. I don’t really get pocket
money. My dad sometimes gives me £10.”
Alfie, who is just 4ft tall, added: “When my mum found out, I thought I was
going to get in trouble. We wanted to have the baby but were worried how
people would react.
“I didn’t know what it would be like to be a dad. I will be good, though, and
care for it.”
Alfie’s dad Dennis told how the lad does not really understand the enormity of
his situation — but seemed desperate to be a devoted and responsible father.
Top Comments
It's just sad and it's just how things are done in other places - which does not mean I'm advocating young kids having kids themselves, who will probably end up locked in a cycle of council housing, young parenthood, no skills and poverty. But when you're surrounded by people having kids at a young age, it doesn't seem as odd as it does when you're surrounded by people have kids in their 20s and 30s. And when you don't have a lot of hope in your life, a baby can be one way of having someone who is "all my own".
I have a lot of family in Dublin. My brother teaches in an inner-city working class primary school where the last-day-of-school tradition, when school breaks up for summer, is for the oldest girls to bring their baby brothers/sisters/nieces/nephews to school to show off. Not infrequently, my brother remembers the parents when they were at primary school, not so many years previously.
I don't know what we can do about it.
I was discussing with my gf's yesterday what we were doing when we were 13.... monopoly anyone??