Posted on 05/23/2005 12:04:01 PM PDT by Truthsayer20
Sisters give birth at 12, 14, 16
Three schoolgirl sisters have given birth aged 12, 14 and 16.
The Williams sisters, who live with their mother in a council house in Derby, feature in a BBC3 documentary called Desperate Midwives.
Natasha, the oldest, Jade and Jemma, the youngest, are reported to receive £600 a week in benefits.
Their mother Julie Atkins, 38, who said the girls were too young and had ruined their lives, blamed schools for providing poor quality sex education.
Mother defiant
Jemma was first to give birth, to T-Jay in February last year, and weeks later Jade and Natasha discovered they were pregnant.
Natasha had daughter Amani in November and Jade followed with Lita in December. The younger sisters are still at school.
Mrs Atkins told the Sunday Mercury: "I don't care what people say about me. I blame the schools - sex education for young girls should be better."
The sisters feature in the BBC3 series Desperate Midwives: The real truth about childbirth, starting from 9pm on Monday.
Episode seven follows a midwife from the Derby City hospital as she helps the family prepare for the third child.
No going back
Mrs Atkins told the Sun that she still found it difficult to believe what had happened.
"They are still little girls and now they have babies of their own," she said. "But I don't care what people say, I love my kids and I'm here to help them.
"If I could turn back the clock, I would prefer them not to have children. Their education is so important."
Two of the girls are no longer in contact with their children's fathers.
Jemma is quoted in the Sun as saying: "I only told my boyfriend David, who was 14 at the time, but I didn't want to have an abortion.
"He was my first love but now I'm gutted because he doesn't want to have anything to do with me or T-Jay."
I was a welfare worker for five years. What you say is compelling. And it compelled me to get the flock outa there!
Yep...my wife is from Manchester and every one of her friends still there is single with one or more kids (if multiple kids, almost invariably from multiple fathers) living in council (i.e. public-funded) housing...which, my wife tells me, you qualify for by having a child out of wedlock
My wife left England just for that reason...a bunch of young women with no goals in life other than to get pregnant whereupon you get your very own council house (well...not really your own...but you get to pretend it is)
Talk about spawning!
Sounds to me like all three of them learned quite a bit, actually.
Ummmmmm...£600 a week in benefits and can't purchase birth control? And keeping your legs closed costs nothing. I just don't get it. [sigh]
Red
Hatch a out a kid every five to seven years or so and almost be set for life.
Guess liberalism pretty much wiped out shame. Look at that picture they all look so smug, 12 for the love of mike when i was 12 i was into riding bikes and watergunning geez lawheez where have kids gone.
You have learned a valuable lesson here. Get the RING and the LICENSE before you make babies. Now, don't make the same mistake a second time. Use the help the government and charities give you to make something of your life for your son, and don't get caught with your pants down a second time.
There's an old song, "You Gotta Shop Around" that says it real clear. That's SHOP, not sleep.
Already these freeloaders get the attention they crave by having their picture in a newspaper or tabloid.
Next the poor taxpaying folk of England will be told (by the media) how hard it is raising a little one and making sacrifices....
..it will be a frontpage bleeding heart story.
No where...no way....will any of these liberal rag newspapers ever suggest some childless couple could give these babies the home they deserve.
These babies didn't ask to be welfare recipients, but you can be sure they will, if no one intervenes.
"And who's going to teach the babies of the teenagers to abstain?"
Or at least use protection. Either method would've prevented these children from being born. Regardless, I'm glad they all "Chose Life".
But this is a timely topic, given how heated the topic of abortion can be.
If it's ever outlawed in this country, expect LOTS of similar stories to pop up. Do we, as a society based on Christian values, turn our backs on young, unwed mothers? Or do we try to assist them? It's unrealistic to hope that no unwed teens ever get pregnant. It's not Christian to throw those that do out on the street (Mary herself was unwed at conception!). It's foolish to assume that all parents will be as effective and caring as mine were/are. I think some sort of assistance is necessary.
(Note: None of the above is directed at you personally - just me thinking aloud)
Nah... they got that down pat. Anyway, like breathing and eating... it's already on the hard-drive when 'yer born.
That is... except for the queers.
These "children" should have their babies placed in orphanages and all government benefits immediately cut off. This is the ONLY policy that will stop this behavior. We - whether it's us or the Brits, enable this kind of disgusting and irresponsible behavior. These girls would stop having kids pretty quick if they realized that the children would be taken away and they would receive no benefits.
Back when I was substitute teaching in Omaha, I was called regularly to go to an elementary school in the north part of the city, and it wasn't unusual at that school (as well as a few others in that neighborhood) to find pregnant 10 year olds, and girls as young as 7 who were both sexually active and running with gangs (the two frequently go together). This is the spawn of Franklin Roosevelt and his "New Deal" welfare state: the destruction of American society. The Brits just had to deal with Labour on a more frequent basis than we did with the Rats, but the results are the same.
Where's the father of these little whores anyway? I think the girls are just taking after mom anyway.
7?!!?!? Eventually it will keep going lower and lower. Why cant kids enjoy being kids instead of trying to grow up faster and faster, thats what i cant understand.
I would like you to know that I have 6 children, with two girls about the age of your pregnant ones. They have never even held hands with a boy. They have learned, not from school (as they homeschool and go to private Christian school) but from ME, their MOTHER, what is right and wrong regarding sexual activity. And furthermore, they have NEVER had the opportunity to be ALONE with some HORNY TOAD looking to take advantage of some young girl's feelings or passions. SO blame yourself, idiot, for screwing up the lives of your three girls. Cordially, Conservatrix
That would be pitiful if they all had the same father but thats probably not the case
sounds considerably like old Victorian England of the Jack the Ripper days. I guess they're moving backwards through time.
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