What's it all about, Alfie the 13-year-old father?

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2233878.ece

BOY dad Alfie Patten yesterday admitted he does not know how much nappies cost — but said: “I think it’s a lot.”
Baby-faced Alfie, who is 13 but looks more like eight, became a father four days ago when his girlfriend Chantelle Steadman gave birth to 7lb 3oz Maisie Roxanne.

He told how he and Chantelle, 15, decided against an abortion after discovering she was pregnant.

This is my favorite part:

Last night Michaela Aston, of the anti-abortion Christian charity LIFE, said: “We commend these teenagers for their courage in bringing their child into the world.

“At the same time this is symptomatic of the over-sexualisation of our youngsters and shows the policy of value-free sex education just isn’t working.”

. . . the her head melted like that Nazi dude in Raiders.

That picture of him - allied with the fact he's 4 foot dead - is chilling.

that's not some type of engagement ring he's wearing is it

lol purity ring

BOY dad Alfie Patten yesterday admitted he does not know how much nappies cost — but said: “I think it’s a lot.”

This would probly be my answer too

Well this article kinda squashes the whole "tell the kid she's just a younger sister" trick

What have we done with our lives? We could all have been great-grandparents by now.

*shudder*

Baby grow was his from weeks ago.
Joking aside, fucking hell!

xxxxx-post, no, that's his 1st wifes wedding ring, she fell off a roundabout and died.

You know, value-free sex education isn't actually a good idea. If you are going to teach kids about sex, you should also make sure they understand the potential outcomes/consequences of it and how those can be avoided. You should also make sure they understand that the only 100% effective way to avoid said consequences (like becoming a father at 13) is abstinence.

Actually, rereading this makes me realize that I think value-free sex-ed is a good idea, don't I? This is what it is, this is why people do it, these are the things that can happen, this is how you can minimize that happening to you. Stuff like this happens more often than not because kids just don't know what they're doing or what the consequences could be.

xp: lol

Alfie's story, broken exclusively by The Sun today has sparked a huge political storm with Tory leader David Cameron saying: "When I saw these pictures this morning, I just thought how worrying that in Britain today children are having children."

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f122/robhatchmiller/SNN1305AA-380_732314a.jpg

These two people. Having sex.

Ewwww.

I can't actually get my head around that photo

Let's fix that quote, by the way:

We commend these teenagers these teenager's parents for their courage sudden effectiveness in bringing their child into the world getting their kids to do what they say.

xpost OMG that picture makes the poor girl look like a child molester

jesus this article is a goldmine:

And Dennis, 45, said: “He could have shrugged his shoulders and sat at home on his Playstation. But he has been at the hospital every day.”

[...]

“I will talk to him again and it will be the birds and the bees talk. Some may say it’s too late but he needs to understand so there is not another baby.”

No way is that his. At 13, he doesn't even have a penis yet.

http://florenciab2011.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/medeival2.jpg

good lord, this situation is kind of exactly why god gave us abortion, I mean seriously.

I remember Britain's youngest father being 11 when the child was conceived, but at least he looked 13

I do not wish to think too much about the mechanics of this.

(not that this is any excuse)

Shit goole, that's too real!

“I will talk to him again and it will be the birds and the bees talk. Some may say it’s too late but he needs to understand so there is not another baby.”

Oh that goes in there.
Then that goes in there.
Then that goes in there.
Then that goes in there.
And then it's over.

OH DAN >:|

Foreplay was on the WII

(I am actually laughing btw)

Don't forget teabagging!

Listened to your sister
When she came home from school
Coz she was two years older
And she had boys in her room

people formed babby at this age for most of human history, and still do with some regularity. still family pic does give one big ol WTF heebie-jeebies

Chantelle’s jobless dad Steve, 43, and her five brothers in a rented council house in Eastbourne. The family live on benefits.
Dennis, who has fathered nine kids
a typical 13-year-old boy

The thing that's killing me about that picture is the probability that he rode home after that photo shoot on a Big Wheel.

Doesn't "Alfie's story, broken exclusively by The Sun" mean it's probably just a stunt and not actually true?

It means they thought who'll pay the most for the story and who'll actually print it.

oh. ok.

I'm not so fixated on how young he looks, but how miserable.

I think that's his serious-father-is-serious-about-fatherhood face tbh

"and she looks just like her father!"

"When I saw these pictures this morning, I just thought how worrying that in Britain today children are having children.you fucking beauty - something else we can blame on the government"

To be honest, he could've done better, she's a bit of a minger.

"and she looks just like her father!"

hahaha

To be honest, he could've done better, she's a bit of a minger.

incapacitated over here

It's not his, is it. He's a patsy.

I wonder if that pink teddy bear is his or his kid's. Kid's kid. Uh yeah. Christ, that boy looks like he just outgrew his diapers.

To be honest, he could've done better, she's a bit of a minger.

I was afraid to say this. But yeah. She really scored with this little feller. Literally.

Then again at least they have one and not eight like that Angelina Jolie wannabe.

She looks a lot like Ben Linus from "Lost", doesn't she?

http://www.room111heroes.com/elizabethI05.jpg

inspired by queenie and shaved off her eyebrows in sheer desperation of having to take care of two kids

I'm quite sure the baby is shutting his eyes and thinking "where is mummy and daddy? why are my brother and sister playing with me?"

"These two people. Having sex."

I wonder if he asked her, after he came, "Was that an orgasm?"

I think that is Benjamin Linus in drag, it's another one of his crazy schemes!

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00466/Karen-Matthews_466240a.jpg

ahhhh :(

you have to wonder why they didn't do this on the first day (at least of the news, of whatever, before that tabloid printed it)

Lucky little bastard! I hope he's learnt his lesson.

I guess he won't have :(

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/03/26/alfie-truth-proved-by-a-300-baby-test-115875-21228412/

Pretty sure Jeremy Kyle would've done this for nowt.

Slept with 6 boys ay?

To be honest, she’s doing the right thing getting it now as she ain’t going to get prettier.
Plus, she’ll be set up for life with a nice council flat waiting for her when she’s old enough, free money and some maintenance.

Still plenty of scope for Jeremy Kyle to get involved

But who WAS forming babbies with Chantelle then?

I don't know, but I expect we'll now be treated to another round of outrage and soulseraching from the media. Oh joy.

But who WAS forming babbies with Chantelle then?

That's what I meant about there still being scope for Jeremy Kyle to get involved

cartman's father style expose has real potential.

Oh, I wasn't aware of who Jeremy Kyle is. Sorry. (Xpost)

Oh boy. Was Alfie used as a cover-up? Hiding a dark perverted family secret? Inquiring minds want to know!

Plus, she’ll be set up for life with a nice council flat waiting for her when she’s old enough, free money and some maintenance.

― not_goodwin

Aye she's got it fucking made eh?

emphasis on "fucking"

no, she's a victim here of ___________

Mrs Thatcher

Aye she's got it fucking made eh?

― the innermost wee guy (onimo),

it was sarcasm

She's a victim of her whoremoans.

so was mine xp

You guys

babies having babies hurts everyone

'ow is babby formed, mate?

the REAL father:

http://www.computermuseum.li/Testpage/AlphieII.jpg

smiling.

Isn't Maisie pregnant yet?

Alfie's taking her out tonight to get back at Chantelle.

Alfie, the German version (Kathrin is 13, Christian is 15, they'll be Germany's youngest elders)

Zärtlich drückt er seine Freundin an sich, streichelt ihren kugelrunden Bauch.

sounds good in Deutsch!
;)

at least Kathrin looks like 25 to me. (also i'm willing to bet that Bild will feature nude photos of Deutschland jungsten Mutter, when she's 18 and in desperate need of some dough)

Christian has some bad 80s footballer hair going on there.

wow yeah i would have guessed she was 18-19 and he was 22-23

Christian has a shirt that says "GABBA" on it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8056700.stm

yeah, i was gonna post earlier when press gazette announced reporting restrictions had been lifted. but reading the thread, the mirror had let the cat out of the bag anyway. courts continuing to do an awesome job of maintaining press freedom in the internet age then.

Children's Secretary Ed Balls

LOL

oh man do I so want the inside story on how this one went down

my general advice to all pregnant women is that if you can either identify the father as a 13-year-old or a 15-year-old, go with 15, trust me

Poor Alfie ;_; He thought he was a man!

Damn Crutis beat me to the Ed Balls zole.

oh man do I so want the inside story on how this one went down

my general advice to all pregnant women is that if you can either identify the father as a 13-year-old or a 15-year-old, go with 15, trust me

― nabisco, Tuesday, 19 May 2009 00:19 (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

you know the general outline right? the parents colluded in saying the younger kid was the father because he looks even younger than 13 and they knew they could sell the story.

A+ parenting

A+ news reporting also

From the Mirror...

A downmarket newspaper reportedly paid Alfie’s dad Dennis, 45, for the story of how his son became one of Britain’s youngest dads after a night of unprotected sex with Chantelle.

>:(

"A night of unprotected sex with Chantelle."

This is just so sad. How do kids parent kids? :-( That said, I recently read that research has shown that teenage moms sometimes do better (than expected/girls without babies).

My brother (and sister-in-law) were teenage parents and their children are lovely. And had left home by the time my brother was 40.
MASSIVE WIN!

who will think of our children's children?

Ned, my parents as well: but there's a difference between 13 yo dad and 19 yo dad.

Yes, massive win of course. And becoming young grandparent as well! Unless you have a kid like me who waits till she's in her 30s. hah

My brother was 16 (17 when his daughter was born). It was hard at the time but being nice middle class people we did the right thing and had the child brought up by our servants as their own.

lol @ Mirror calling other tabloids "downmarket"

also lol @ this http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/05/19/tory-issues-apology-after-calling-labour-rival-a-c-115875-21371710/

"cunt" = typo for "councillor"