A 13-year-old boy is set to become one of the country’s youngest fathers after his 14-year-old girlfriend became pregnant.
The two children, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, attend the same school.
But the girl, who is several months pregnant, is in the year above the boy.
It is the latest in a history of under-age pregnancies in Poole, Dorset.
In 1997, Jenny Teague became the country’s youngest mother when she gave birth, aged 12, to daughter Sasha.
Two years later, sisters Charlene, 17, and Miranda Way, 15, from Poole gave birth within months of each other.
The local authority has obtained a court order to stop the children in the latest case being identified.
Sean Stewart became Britain’s youngest known father when, in 1998, at the age of just 12, his nextdoor neighbour Emma Webster, 15, gave birth to their baby in Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire.
Earlier this year, another 13-year-old, Alfie Patten, from Eastbourne in East Sussex, was believed to have become a father after 15-year-old Chantelle Stedman conceived.
But DNA tests later showed that another 15-year-old was the father.
Earlier this year, Alfie Patten was believed to have become a father at 13 but the baby turned out not to be his
Teenage pregnancies are now at their highest for a decade.
And pregnancies among girls under 16 – below the age of consent – are also at their highest since 1998.
The Government has tried to cut teenage pregnancies by handing out free contraceptives and expanding sex education.
Most pregnancies among girls under 18 end in abortion.
Of about 40,000 pregnancies last year, more than 20,000 were terminated – the first time more had chosen this option than became mothers.
Abortions for teenagers have gone up by more than a quarter since Labour came to power in 1997.
Last year, the total number abortions in England and Wales topped 200,000 for the first time.
Sasha
October 25, 2009 at 14:20
Terrible
Riverside
October 25, 2009 at 15:28
What disturbs me is, how, the authorities, try to cover their identities. Why do it?? These children go against, adult advice,
insisting that they are old enough, mature enough and wise enough, to engage in sexual intercourse.
The result of sex is a pregnancy.
If the children want to play adult games, then, I believe their identities should not be shielded.
After all , it will become pretty evident that a girl is pregnant, after a few months, and 9 months later she will be pushing her
baby around in a push chair.
LUCY
October 25, 2009 at 15:51
WOT A SSMALL PENIS LOL
kennedy
October 25, 2009 at 16:37
this story is unbelievable, what parents would allow the children to have sex at the age of 13???????????
maria
October 25, 2009 at 16:49
this is gross at the age of 13 to 15 having a baby yuck why would you want a kid at that age
superdoggirl
October 25, 2009 at 17:32
okaaaay…..
charlie
October 25, 2009 at 18:05
im proud for you but thts horrid blaaaa :S
Hayley
October 25, 2009 at 18:25
look after him well xxx
alexis
October 25, 2009 at 18:30
I think teenage pregnancy is disgustin , and if your daughter as a baby at a young age it just make’s you look like a a low life , Its obviouse your parent’s dont care about their children , They should tell their daughter they cant have the child as she is too young , or mabye put the child up for adoption , , And as goas for they boys, use protection , or keep it in your trousers , Parents need to do more talk to their children as often as you can about protection and sex although they dont like it, If you dont like what i have said then add me on msn , or please write back to me on plaiboi101@hotmail.co.uk , but we are all entitled to our own oppion and that is mine , all im sayin is would you want your 12 year old daughter son , havin a daughter or a son , when there still being looked after by there parents i dont think it is fair the baby wouldnt get a proper looking after , it should be law not to have children under a certain age
chloe
October 25, 2009 at 21:16
it IS the law. but people ignore it.
alexis
October 25, 2009 at 18:31
I think teenage pregnancy is disgustin , and if your daughter as a baby at a young age it just make’s you look like a a low life scrubber , Its obviouse your parent’s dont care about their children , They should tell their daughter they cant have the child as she is too young , or mabye put the child up for adoption , , And as goas for they boys, use protection , or keep it in your trousers , Parents need to do more talk to their children as often as you can about protection and sex although they dont like it, If you dont like what i have said then add me on msn , or please write back to me on plaiboi101@hotmail.co.uk , but we are all entitled to our own oppion and that is mine , all im sayin is would you want your 12 year old daughter son , havin a daughter or a son , when there still being looked after by there parents i dont think it is fair the baby wouldnt get a proper looking after , it should be law not to have children under a certain age
oh dear
October 25, 2009 at 19:21
Can’t take care of themself, let alone a child because they’re still children themselfs.
KazKaz
October 25, 2009 at 19:52
That is just disgusting!
Who would want to have a baby at 12 years old.. I am 12!
Cyaaa
KazKaz
October 25, 2009 at 19:53
It’s just disturbing.. no offence to ppl who like having children at the age of 12/13/14/15/16/17/18…
Brook
October 25, 2009 at 19:53
This is shocking i am disgusted by this i was 25 when i had mine
paul rumble
October 25, 2009 at 20:26
Your too young to be getting jiggy, im 17 and havent got any. bollocks to karma
sean
October 25, 2009 at 21:32
The correct term is statutory rape.
having sex with either gender under the age of 16 is a crime,funny though the police do not prosecute because “its not in the pubilic interest” the female at 14 is too young to consent to sex and the boy is a child of 13. the parents of both should be prosecuted for child endangerment and the offspring should be taken intoocare and forcibly given up for adoption…
Charlotte
October 26, 2009 at 09:26
If thats your solution, then a whole lot of babies will be in care, and not enough parents. the mothers who gave birth to them will get depressed because, despite your belief, they will and do care about thier child; its instinct. the will miss and pine and beg for thier child baack, then the gov says no, they lash out and go for another one.
its not going to help
F
October 25, 2009 at 21:46
um.. how disgusting.. what have kids come to now.. *sighs*
Hee
October 25, 2009 at 22:06
wow he looks like 10 years old
Millie
October 25, 2009 at 22:32
I can’t people my age ( im 13 ) would want to have a baby ,, or sex . The joy of being a child is freedom and not having to care for something , having a baby underage means you lose your freedom and have to care for something.
I do want kids but I want to be at least 22 when I do!!
It’s just disgusting what teens get up too!
karen
October 25, 2009 at 22:38
i blame the parents for neglect. They obviously havent got a clue what their children are up to, and if they do then they should be punished for allowing such things. What is the country coming to,.
Shell
October 25, 2009 at 22:46
Admittedly, I was one of these many kids who engage in sex in what is considered ‘too young’, but I was careful about it and I had what I’d consider a pretty respectable relationship at the time. I don’t regret it to this day but I’m pretty much a big hypocrite and hate the idea of anyone else having underage sex. I think getting pregnant under the age of like.. 25, is just a waste, and I know for a fact, if my mum was really young, I’d be really embarrassed of it :l
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October 25, 2009 at 23:06
sounds fuckin hawt
james
October 25, 2009 at 23:32
thats just discusting. me and my girlfriend have sex like all the time but i always use protection so insidents like this dont happen! Im 16 and would never want a baby at 13!!! thats ridiculous
Megan
October 25, 2009 at 23:36
Well I am 13 and someone my age getting someone pregnant.. Well thats wrong, yeah but they should hand out more birth control stuff such as Condoms, Pills and stuff. If Britain want less Teen Pregnancy more Protection must be given out and more Sex Education about Diseases, Pregnancy and How to be safe. The Goverment should also influence teens not too have sex.
Megan, 13, Wales
janey
October 26, 2009 at 02:18
Sean: What gives you the right to say that because a child has child before they are 16 that they have to have that said child, taken into and put up for adoption hu, if they have a supportive famil that wil not happen, so please don ot judge everyone okay
janey
October 26, 2009 at 02:23
Alexis: What gives you the right to call a teenage girl a lowlife scrubber, I have a neighbour who is 17 and she lives with her Fiance and he works to provide for his daughter okay , so please before you say things like this think okay , you are implying that all teenage girls sleep around and do not know who the father to their baby is.
janey
October 26, 2009 at 02:29
Alexis: Another thing is that my neighbour who is 17 year old is a very good mother okay and for saying she is too young I do not thinks so do you, that child is very loved by her and her family .
jonathan
October 26, 2009 at 06:23
The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog.
Jade
October 26, 2009 at 07:11
He has ruined his life. Because now, instead of blasting zombies on the computer or playing footie, he’ll be nursing his baby. He’ll be up all night, with night feeds and crying and nappy changes. The two best options, really, are to when the baby is born, give him / her up for adoption, or have the girl’s parent’s book the girl an appointment to have an abortion at a doctors.
netty375
October 26, 2009 at 08:14
where in the hell are the parents of these 12 year olds that are getting pregnant and getting girls pregnant, I have 5 children, 4 girls and 1 boy my oldest 2 are 17 and 14 and I still know where they are and what they are doing while they are out,, if they dont tell me where they are going they dont go out its simple as that, these parent need to start being parents and take control and bring their children up the way they ought to be brought up, not letting them run riot.
netty375
October 26, 2009 at 08:18
I had my youngest at 39 years old he will be 2 in january and I find it hard now so god knows how they think they are going to cope at 12 years old,
courtney
October 26, 2009 at 08:25
i think its horrible have a baby at 13 years old its sick they still a child there selfs and still at school
abana
October 26, 2009 at 08:26
i think it is ridiculous to sex educate children at age 10…this is clearly the result what we getting out of it! we not preventing the under age sex and pregnencies the governement actually gives them the tool…free pills etc. who in the right mind want to have a baby at age 12???? well done to sex education! you boys and girls should be playing with your barbies and ur action-mans!!! i wonder how they gonna feed the child? how they gonna cloth the child? aaaah….i know, us tax payers should pay for it? yeah? big no can do!!!!! why should we who work hard and pay taxes pay for them who at age 12 -18 cant keep their pants on or lags closed???? no thank you!!!
Anna
October 26, 2009 at 08:27
Why would that 12 year old girl want to have sex??? It’s horrible and awful parenting.
Bernadette Roeber
October 26, 2009 at 09:03
Breaking the law IS a crime. Punishment should apply.
The family of these so young kids ought to be made “to pay” for All costs in taking care of the new ‘comer’ if the child’s pregnancy is not being made terminated, or abortion, and this is, virtually, my opinion.
In no case, should the general public be helping or feel sorry and having to pay for ‘that’.
It is entirely a problem with the totally irresponsible parents, where ‘action’ should be ‘severely’ taken by the Authority, so the Police to step in! – will the full use of taking it as a given ‘example’ to a New regime in the true lacking of such a ‘system’ – This would potentially improve and re-direct people’s mind, to a more positive, definitively educative to both Parents and kids in all publicly eyes. – And ‘kids’ would probably not want so much to be playing much mummies and daddies, if rules apply. As for now, it is all too much contradictive. This ought to be stopped ‘now’ – or we will be faced, (with so much publicity and encouragements in a sense) with a continuing growing numbers! – Just like the development of drugs!
What is annoying me the most is; not only there is a strong ‘evidence’ in the ‘disregarding’ in the standing of the Law (under 16) is = NO Sex. – In another hand, there you have it ‘Condoms’ freely made available for (young kids) anyway! – Who is there doing something terribly wrong? – It is honestly a bit like ‘drug’ rightly so is ‘illegal’ but, here you have it, the ‘pusher’ who says “Here you can have some!” – It is made too, available! –
If this country is a mess, well, the chances are, if ‘action’ is not taken now, this will get worse!
B
October 26, 2009 at 09:11
I don’t think it is the parents fault entirly.
I’m 15 years of age, and the majority of the boys and girls of my age are going round behind their parents backs having sex.
Pretending their just going out to play footy, or to a party etc.
It is disgusting and wrong.
If anyone is to blame, its no the parents.
kacey
October 26, 2009 at 09:18
hi, i was a teenage mother i fell pregnant at 16 and had my son by the time i was 17, yes i look back and think i was young and my life stoped!! but i wouldnt change him for the world i love him so much now im 22 married,he has a 2 year old brother, own my own house and me n his dad still going strong after 8 years, i dont agree with getting pregnant that young its wrong and more should b done to help stop it! its hard being a teenage mother its not a dolly like some girls think, i no a few girls who has had kids n there mothers look after them while they still act like a child themselfs, how i look at it if your old anouth to lay on ya bck ure old anough 2 look after it!!!
Charlotte
October 26, 2009 at 09:20
I’m a young mum, got pregnant at 16, gave birth at 17.
I finished that year in college, got equivilant of 3 b’s and an a, and intend on returning after a year out. I was working until 7 months, and now my baby boy is 5 months old. I love him so much and cant imagine life without him.
However, I am not saying its ok. If I didnt know that both my parents and his parents would be there to help no matter what if needed, and I thought that I wasnst mature enough, or if I didnt know where the next pay check was coming in, or if I didnt know if my partner would stick around, I wouldnt of kept danny. Many teenagers who have children end up sumping it on thier parents, which we are not.
The majority of people believe that its a horrendous thing and only look at the failures, not the successes. I’m coping fine, doing it all on my own, and I love it.
sharon
October 26, 2009 at 09:34
did u ever listen to ur parents no most of us have done things we shouldnt have these poor children made a mistake we all like to explore. it ujust a lesson to us all dont poke the fire with ur fingers u will get burned poor babies…..
Caitlin-Louise
October 26, 2009 at 09:35
oh mii god,, bless ermm,, i hope it all goes well,, but it was defo too early for them xx.
ope
October 26, 2009 at 09:45
I know some people are sayin that the parents of the kid should hav arranged an appointment for an abortion but if they had done that they would hav committed murder and is that any diffrent from killing an actual person because the way i see it havin an abortion is ending someone’s life before it has even begun.
Emma
October 26, 2009 at 10:04
i thought i’d leave my view as some of the views on here seem a little blunt and without thought (and oddly the so called voices of reason don’t seem to be able to spell better than children themselves which i couldn’t help but pick up on and wonder what it says about them !)
i had a great deal of respect for my parents as a child and they did their best to guide me, but it didn’t stop me feeling ready for a physical relationship with my long term boyfriend at the age of 15, my mothers view was that it is impossible to stop a teenager from having sex because they will just do it in secret so it is far better to try to protect them from pregnancy / infection etc when the time comes and to know that they are safe and who they are with. i myself settled down with someone at 17 moved in and i had my first child at 18, i personally was ready for that and my partner was 24 at the time , i am now 31 married, own my own 5 bed house and have the old traditional lifestyle that i always wanted , my husband earns the money which he feels is his role and i take care of our 3 children (with number 4 on the way !) i wouldn’t change a thing and would still like to adopt a child in the future.
to all the people saying that these babies should be forcibly taken into care and adopted , i’m not sure that you have put enough thought into that childs welfare, not all children taken into care get adopted especially the non white british in england as they tend to only adopt children into families reflecting that childs racial heritage, these children aren’t so easy to place, i know this as i have applied to adopt myself . not all placements are happy , the children can grow up with all sorts of questions and issues that wouldn’t arise if they hadn’t been adopted, the most typical being the feelings of worthlessness and the “why didn’t my parents love me ” questions all of this can make a psychological impact on that child, don’t get me wrong adoption can be a fantastic thing when in the best interest of a child but you have to ask yourself “is youth of the parents a good enough reason if the parents have family support?”
i think in this country we are too quick to just kill unwanted fetus’s and more should be done to discourage teens from having sex in the first place, it is all over tv these days in many shows that children watch, the soaps are constantly full of it along with many rediculous storylines, lots of which include teens , it is being made normal and commonplace, maybe with a little less attitude and sexual exposure on tv we might not have such a problem !
for the record my son is 13 now and i’m pretty confident that he has been taught common sense and is educated enough and doesn’t even think about that kind of thing yet !
but i would like to point out that it IS NOT always the fault of the parents !
angelousdesir
October 26, 2009 at 16:32
can u even imagine your mom or dad only being like 10 or 12 years older then thier kid talk about messing up the chain of generations
Stef
October 26, 2009 at 18:06
It’s simply amazing how almost none of the people making comments can spell worth a damn.
I don’t the law over there “across the pond”, but in the US, the age of consent in most states is 16. You’re not legally considered an adult until age 18.
It seems like a problem of epidemic proportions that so many 12-15 year olds are having sexual relations and producing children. Maybe the parents of these teens don’t know any better, maybe they were teen parents themselves and that’s considered “normal”. Personally, I don’t think I’d want to be a grandmother at the age of 30. I’m 45 and I don’t yet have grandchildren. Maybe I did something right so that my sons decided to wait to procreate. I was married, and had my oldest son, at nineteen. I could have become a grandmother at (using the ages of the teens in this post) the earliest, 33 years of age. That’s a scary thought!
There needs to be either tougher laws to prevent this from happening, or better sex education… but the bottom line is, teenagers are going to experiment with their sexuality whether we like it or not.
thomasvickers
October 26, 2009 at 18:21
People seem to think that teenage pregnancy is a new thing! The only difference between now and 10, 50, 100 years ago is that now, when a young girl becomes pregnant, it makes the Evening News and it makes a Top Blog on WordPress.
My family has several stories of teenagers having babies. So many years ago, kids got married in their teens. And to think that unmarried teenagers didn’t have sex “way back when”? Just ask your grandparents. I can only imagine the stories they’d tell–IF they are honest with you.
When I was in highschool 20 years ago, there were pregnant freshmen IE 14 years old or so. At that time, it was the business of that girl’s family and the school only got involved to help her finish the school year since she couldn’t attend school after her pregnancy began to show.
As a mother of two teenage boys, I would be the first to jump in and try to educate and, bribe, cajole, threaten, etc., if neccessary, to prevent kids from having sex too young, and especially unprotected sex. But to think that kids have more sex today than so many years ago–that may be a bit naive.
Today, people just broadcast WAAAY more.
LaVerna Vickers
Rain Racer
October 27, 2009 at 17:43
So what do we think is going on here? These kids are having sex because their parents were open and honest with them about it and the kid went out and did it based on right information from Mom and Dad? Or do we think these parents didn’t talk to their kids about sex and the kids made a mistake on their own?
Educating your child about sex is one of those core parenting decisions.
Bryan
October 27, 2009 at 17:48
I’ve known about this situation for several months already; the baby has been born, and after a DNA test, it was shown he was not the father. A lie detector test revealed that they had not, in fact, ever had sex, which means the boy couldn’t have been the father in any case.
In the future, you should check your sources.
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