Posted on 11/08/2009 3:59:23 PM PST by myknowledge
A GIRL, 12 who fell pregnant to her 15-year-old live-in boyfriend has given birth to a baby boy.
Earlier this year, the NSW Department of Community Services (DoCS) was forced to apologise when it was revealed the girl's father had warned them his daughter was sleeping with her boyfriend at her mother's house.
The girl's father told Woman's Day he didn't think his daughter was up to the task of being a mother.
"She is only a baby herself and now she's got a baby," he said.
"She has no maternal instincts at all. She never even played with dolls when she was younger. She never played at being a mummy. This breaks my heart."
He said the girl was "petrified" when she went into labour and had to have an emergency caesarean.
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And the 15 year old boyfriend is an underage dad. Unbelievable too.
Decades ago, underage parents like these two would have been scorned. These days, people conveniently turn a blind eye.
“Falling pregnant,” is that like ‘falling ill’?
Believe it or not this is nothing new. It happens in the United States too. In fact, some by the time they are 14/15 they have already had a couple of babies.
Why is this under “breaking news?” This is no surprise..and I’m sure there are many — dozens at least — of American citizens who gave birth at the age of 12.
most likely the entire family is on the dole.
How would it help for them to be “scorned”? Placing the baby for adoption with an adult married couple is what would help.
My husbands grandfather lost his wife and had 4 young boys. His second wife was 12yrs old and was given to him in marriage by her father. Not saying it is a good thing but it happened alot back in those days.
Something the left liberals want: Families on the dole instead of productive and contributing families. Think of the Duggar family in Arkansas. 19 children + 1 grandchild and none of them on the dole.
True story, my daughter was in the seventh grade in 1985 and invited to a classmate’s baby shower given by her mother! I won’t bother to tell you her race, but you get the picture. So this is nothing new, just shocking every time I recall the incident.
I’ve taught 7th grade for 15 years.
I’ve had two 7th grade mothers.
One was pregnant while she was in my class.
The other was already a mother when she arrived.
It stops you in your tracks when you get an excuse note from a student who couldn’t come to school because they couldn’t find a babysitter.
I don’t think they turn a blind eye. It was the girl who was punished for this and never the boy. Today, it is not what I would say accepted however...the girl is not chastised as she would have been. We DO need to stand by our own kids if this happens to them. What else would one have them do...turn them out onto the streets? They need the love and support and most importantly...the new baby needs to feel love and support more than ever. God bless them all.
I don’t think they turn a blind eye. It was the girl who was punished for this and never the boy. Today, it is not what I would say accepted however...the girl is not chastised as she would have been. We DO need to stand by our own kids if this happens to them. What else would one have them do...turn them out onto the streets? They need the love and support and most importantly...the new baby needs to feel love and support more than ever. God bless them all.
amen. However, if there are adults that could help...I would prefer to see the child remain in a family and perhaps they would all “grow up together” and be able to take responsibility for their actions both mom and...dad.
I became a father in the 7th grade. I was 28. 7th grade was hard!
Not really.
:-)
No names were mentioned, so I assume they’re Pakistanis.
This is in Australia, not the UK.
Yes, if the baby could be reared by his grandparents along with his mother, that wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing. However, the parents of the infant's parents have demonstrated extremely poor judgment.
Happened in this country ?
sure.
My great grandmother married a 35 year old man when she was 15. his first wife died. Lost his kids too. Had 12 or 14 more with my great grandmother. 8 of them lived. Both my great grandmother and my great grandfather were ethnic germans born in america.
They lived in kansas.
And be $500 to $1000 richer according to the Dems latest plan. Geeez!
It was common in the old days. My great-grandmother emigrated from Europe and was married in the U.S. at around age 13... to a man who was around 28.
It was still common within certain families and in certain areas in my generation. I don’t think girls should be married or sexually active at such a young age. It’s sad that it still happens.
Yes. In Missouri.
I was going to be a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) volunteer but when I checked it out I knew I couldn't keep my mouth shut about the 'parents' lifestyle and why they couldn't get their *hit together and raise their own kids since they decided to bring them into this world.
No, I was not suitable to do that because of my BIG MOUTH!
"She is only a baby herself and now she's got a baby," he said.
I'm going to go out on a limb and assume the girl's father wasn't up to the task of being a father!
What kind of half-witted weakling allows a twelve year old child to have a fifteen year old boyfriend, let alone a live-in boyfriend?
This so-called parent failed miserably!
The minimum legal marriage age for girls in at least one state (I think it was New Hampshire, not sure) was still ELEVEN in the 1970s. I remember reading this in a World Almanac when I was about 11 and finding that pretty amazing. By that time, it was certainly only with both parental and court approval, which probably wasn’t given (or asked for) anymore. But the law dated to an era when state legislators had to vote on minimum marriage ages, and voted for 11 for girls (I think it was 14 for boys in the same state). And I think quite a few other states had minimum marriage ages of eleven or twelve into the mid-1900s.
Back in college, I had a part-time job with a family-run sports business owned by a British couple who’d moved here decades ago. She was thirteen when they married in England, and for her it was a ticket out of a depressed coal town (husband was heading off to train with a national sports team somewhere else in the UK at the time). When I knew them, she was working as the executive assistant to the headmaster of a very good private school, so we’re not talking illiterate lowlifes here. They were sensible, responsible, hard-working people.
Some things made sense back then that don’t make sense now.
There is a vast difference between a 12 year and 15 year old girl. But 100 years ago this was afar different country
What’s unusual here is that this girl had a parent who had registered a complaint with social services about what the girl was being allowed to do under her mother’s roof, and no action was taken.
When I taught HS in TX I had several incoming freshmen students who had children at home (they were 14 year olds, so they were unlikely to have been more than 13 when they got pregnant). And a couple of times they were already pregnant again. Something is direly wrong when we turn a blind eye to this.
The girl lived with her mother, who allowed the boyfriend to live with them. The father tried to warn the authorities, to no avail. He was probably pushed out of the girl’s life when he separated from the mother.
Me, neither.
I always preferred playing a werewolf!
My hair was perfect.
It’s sad to me that it’s so infrequently the chosen option. Sounds like the girl has no common sense (sleeping with her 15 year old boyfriend and getting pregnant does not show much maturity) and it sounds as if she is not surrounded by mature adults. I think her Mother should be cited for child neglect and lose her parental rights.
I spoke to soon. For some reason, I'm less shocked when this happens in the mother's home.
It happens way too often.
12? It happened, but I don’t think it happened a LOT.
I know. The world is so torn and damaged isn’t it? All due to PC and other silly nonsense. Now we pay for it but more importantly and sadly...it’s the children that will pay. Always the children.
I’d love to meet your tailor.
If she was 15 or 16 maybe, but a 12 year old? I think not, she would likely be better off if she were allowed to be a child and grow up.
Heck, it happened to me last week!
(just kidding, folks)
LOL.
LOL you are clearly silly!
No sleep and two HUGE energy drinks did it to me.
It’s a common British expression. Like “standing” for election.
I imagine back East where the women were so prim and proper they didn’t get married at a early age, but I think in the Midwest and West when they were settling the land it was more prevelant.
I imagine back East where the women were so prim and proper they didn’t get married at a early age, but I think in the Midwest and West when they were settling the land it was more prevelant.
Much like the Irish.
I think *something* should be done other than leaving a helpless baby with these people!
Probably. I just don’t know anything anymore. Everything is out of control and just so damned sad. Parents need to be parents or not have children. Children need to be disciplined and there needs to be rules of the house. They should not be out on school nights etc...but...who even gives a damn about those kinds of things anymore. People are out 24-7 anymore. No wonder there is so much crime and fights etc. Very sad world we live in anymore and I cry tears for our own country with this jerk in the white house. God spare us all.
Probably. I just don’t know anything anymore. Everything is out of control and just so damned sad. Parents need to be parents or not have children. Children need to be disciplined and there needs to be rules of the house. They should not be out on school nights etc...but...who even gives a damn about those kinds of things anymore. People are out 24-7 anymore. No wonder there is so much crime and fights etc. Very sad world we live in anymore and I cry tears for our own country with this jerk in the white house. God spare us all.
“And be $500 to $1000 richer according to the Dems latest plan. Geeez!”
My niece says that the girls in her school are intentionally getting pregnant for the government money. They have no desire to marry the father. They would lose the money.
We had a mexican kin in Jr High that was 29 and still trying!
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