[mewzilla]

What challenges do such young mothers face and how do they cope?

How about their kids?!

[D1X1E]

14 year old UK girls get pregnant on purpose to collect welfare

The UK is behind the times. Been going on here in the USA for generations.

[2banana]

"I wanted a baby, I wanted to be a housewife and I thought it would bring me and my boyfriend, Danny, closer together," she says. "He was 17 at the time and he wasn't saying I had to use contraception. But once I got pregnant he wasn't happy then and told me to get rid of it."

Such sadness, moral bankruptcy, closed hearts and longing for something better - all in one short paragraph.

[IronJack]

"Congratulations, Miss. You're the mother of a 7-pound, 8-ounce, bouncing baby lunch ticket."

[tvguru]

Well... at least its better than them getting abortions.

[Doogle]

ah yes, the American way.


Doogle

[Doogle]

"He was 17 at the time and he wasn't saying I had to use contraception. But once I got pregnant he wasn't happy then and told me to get rid of it."

..yeah "it" should cost DANNY 10 pounds a week

Doogle

[MaryFromMichigan]

I don't have contact with Ayeasha's Dad but I have help from my parents and there's nothing else I wanted to do with my life.

Hey, on the bright side, how many 14 year olds are already living their dreams?

/s

[Clock King]

Chav Lifestyle

[Graybeard58]

She's got a ticket to ride

but she don't care

My baby don't care

Old enough to remember that?

[-YYZ-]

Call me crazy, but I don't think minors should be allowed to keep their babies unless some responsible person is willing and able to provide for them. I remember seeing a story on the news with some homeless girl from Toronto living in a shelter with her baby. How can being homeless with a baby not be considered child abuse. How can someone who can't even support themselves be allowed to take on the responsibility of caring for a baby? Bleeding hearts will cry that you can't deprive people of their children just because they're poor, but when their poverty is a result of their own unwillingness or inability to provide for themselves, I think "Yes, you can."

[napscoordinator]

Don't they know that the welfare money would not even pay part of the upkeep of raising a child right. I don't get it. I believe that they think they will have extra funds to party and have no idea that you actually need to spend money on the baby. Well at least Europe is getting a few kids out of it....very sarc.

[Aquinasfan]

girls get pregnant on purpose to collect welfare

Stop me if you've heard this one before...

[sandbar]

No wonder there are 40,000 births, there are no consequences. You got yourself knocked up (where are the 'fathers' of the babies) and you get accomodations made for you to even continue school. And a 'checque'.

[Lancey Howard]

[14 year old UK girls get pregnant on purpose to collect welfare]

Huh. That's how the Democrats here in the US destroyed the urban black family unit.

[gcruse]

The crowd who thinks demography is destiny should be all in favor of this, eh wot?

[Lou L]

How could any of these young mothers ever vote for a candidate that stands for "more personal responsibility" vs. "government handouts?"

[hosepipe]

Isn't socialism great?.... Slavery by Giverment...

[Teacher317]

"Education is the key to it," she says. "If we can get them through their GCSEs and help them finish their schooling we can give them and their children far better lives."

Sounds like they've learned the government's lessons rather well (rather than what the government says they are trying to teach)

[ut1992]

"Olivia has no regrets about having her daughter Ayeasha at 15. "She's the best thing that ever happened to me," she says. "If I had to do the same again I would. I don't have contact with Ayeasha's Dad but I have help from my parents and there's nothing else I wanted to do with my life."

Ayeasha!?! Geez, you've got to be kidding me. Dad not in the picture and then giving your kid such an asanine name. She should really have asked her counterparts in the U.S. how that combination (no dad & stupid name) just breeds success.