The Britwriters<\/a><\/em> blog I\u2019ve had comments to my previous article from Germany and India saying they had seen the story in their country. In fact, it had been front page news in India!<\/p>\nAs far as I\u2019m aware, the police have said that no one is going to be prosecuted for the act of sex with a minor because the person having sex with a minor is a minor himself. But I would ask what is the point of a law \u2013 in this case the age of sexual consent being 16 \u2013 if it\u2019s just going to be ignored even in a case as high profile as this one. It\u2019s not exactly a deterrent, is it?<\/p>\n
In fact, I\u2019d go so far as to say that this whole \u2018media storm\u2019 is going to encourage young people to have sex rather than deter them. It\u2019s a sad fact of our society but there are a great many young people who aspire not to having a good job or doing to some good in the world, but to simply being famous. The likes of Paris Hilton, who is famous for being famous, Jade Goody, more on her another day, or Jordan\/Katie Price, who is famous for having big boobs and showing them off in the papers, are the people that today\u2019s kids look up to and want to be like. These are people who have no real talent other than self-publicity (or hiring a good publicist) and have made fortunes for themselves through simply being themselves. They make it seem easy and every modern kid thinks they can do it too.<\/p>\n
Which brings us back to Alfie, Chantelle and the other two would-be-dads. Alfie and Chantelle are enjoying their five minutes and I believe that\u2019s all they\u2019ll get. I doubt, and this is a terrible assumption as I do not know them and am judging on appearances only, that either of them have the wherewithal to take this \u2018big break\u2019 and turn it into a media career. It may depend on which publicist they choose to employ, but let\u2019s be honest, neither of them are exactly photogenic are they? Hell, one of the might-be dads has said he thought she was ugly (I couldn\u2019t possibly comment). But if that\u2019s what he thought \u2013 why the hell did he have sex with her? I digress.<\/p>\n
You do have to admit though, either Chantelle, or more likely her parents, have made one good choice here. To name Alfie as the father. This story would not be in the spotlight, and indeed I would not be writing about it, had Alfie been a few years older. Or if one of the other two potential daddies had been named instead. A sixteen year old knocking up a fifteen year old is, sadly, not newsworthy in this day and age for the simple fact that it happens more often than any society should like, or indeed tolerate.<\/p>\n
And speaking of the two other boys involved. You have to question their motives. When I was that age, boys would run a mile at the suggestion that they had put a bun in some girl\u2019s oven and, if anything, would be demanding a test to prove they were NOT the father, not that they WERE the father. But then, in my day, we wouldn\u2019t have had the fear of prosecution taken away within days of the birth and we also wouldn\u2019t have expected to get our ugly mugs in the national papers and all over the TV news. What we would<\/em> have expected would be a good kicking from the girl\u2019s father, followed up by a kicking from our own father and a hastily arranged wedding day.<\/p>\nIn all honestly, reading the article linked to above is actually quite disturbing. It paints a picture of life which a worrying amount of the population lead, and a life that the rest of the population would rather not know about. And yet, the very people who are failing their own children are being quoted by the paper in such a way as to appear to be blaming the society they live in rather than accepting any responsibility themselves.<\/p>\n
Of the two new boys mentioned in the article, one is currently suspended from school (and has been for three months) because he has failed to conduct himself in the appropriate manner. He has, apparently, \u2018anger-management\u2019 issues. When I was at school this used to be called \u2018a bad temper\u2019. <\/p>\n
And, naturally, we get the quote about there being \u2018nothing for the kids to do\u2019. Oh well, in that case it\u2019s perfectly okay if they are staying over in random girls houses and having unprotected sex.<\/p>\n
It does come back to Chantelle\u2019s parents again though, doesn\u2019t it? What on earth were they doing allowing boys their daughter had know for just a few weeks stay in her room overnight? And why were they sitting downstairs watching TV while their daughter was upstairs getting knocked up by any number of boys?<\/p>\n
For the record, Chantelle denies having slept with so many boys. But she would, wouldn\u2019t she? After all, this 15 year old mother wouldn\u2019t want to earn a reputation as a slut. Heaven forbid, unless there was some more money from the papers in it.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m sorry to go on about this, but for me it\u2019s one of the worst commentaries on Britain that I\u2019ve seen since I started this blog getting on for three years ago. Some of our political representatives use terms like \u201cBroken Society\u201d and then get criticised for it by their opponents. Well, I\u2019m sorry, but you can\u2019t look at this situation and tell me all is well. Because, quite frankly, it isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The story of 15 year old mum, Chantelle, her baby, Maisie and the father, 13 year old Alfie, just gets worse and worse. This weekend, The Sun\u2019s sister newspaper, The News of the World, ran a piece in which it is claimed that Chantelle was sleeping with \u201cas many as eight\u201d boys around the time that Maisie was conceived and that two other boys have come forward demanding paternity tests to prove they are the father and not 13 year old Alfie. A 16 year old and a 14 year old are both claiming that they are the ones who, and I’m sorry to put it this way but it links in to the rest of this piece, have broken the law by having sex with a minor and getting her pregnant. Of course, the legality of what has or hasn\u2019t taken place here is being ignored by the whole of the media as they scramble to make the most of this story, which has, so I\u2019m told, been heard around the world. On The Britwriters blog I\u2019ve had comments to my previous article from Germany and India saying they had seen the story in their country. In fact, it had been front page news in India! As far as I\u2019m aware, the police have said that no one is going to be prosecuted for the act of sex with a minor because the person having sex with a minor is a minor himself. But I would ask what is the point of a law \u2013 in this case the age of sexual consent being 16 \u2013 if it\u2019s just going to be ignored even in a case as high profile as this one. It\u2019s not exactly a deterrent, is it? In fact, I\u2019d go so far as to say that this whole \u2018media storm\u2019 is going to encourage young people to have sex rather than deter them. It\u2019s a sad fact of our society but there are a great many young people who aspire not to having a good job or doing to some good in the world, but to simply being famous. The likes of Paris Hilton, who is famous for being famous, Jade Goody, more on her another day, or Jordan\/Katie Price, who is famous for having big boobs and showing them off in the papers, are the people that today\u2019s kids look up to and want to be like. These are people who have no real talent other than self-publicity (or hiring a good publicist) and have made fortunes for themselves through simply being themselves. They make it seem easy and every modern kid thinks they can do it too. Which brings us back to Alfie, Chantelle and the other two would-be-dads. Alfie and Chantelle are enjoying their five minutes and I believe that\u2019s all they\u2019ll get. I doubt, and this is a terrible assumption as I do not know them and am judging on appearances only, that either of them have the wherewithal to take this \u2018big break\u2019 and turn it into a media career. It may depend on which publicist they choose to employ, but let\u2019s be honest, neither of them are exactly photogenic are they? Hell, one of the might-be dads has said he thought she was ugly (I couldn\u2019t possibly comment). But if that\u2019s what he thought \u2013 why the hell did he have sex with her? I digress. You do have to admit though, either Chantelle, or more likely her parents, have made one good choice here. To name Alfie as the father. This story would not be in the spotlight, and indeed I would not be writing about it, had Alfie been a few years older. Or if one of the other two potential daddies had been named instead. A sixteen year old knocking up a fifteen year old is, sadly, not newsworthy in this day and age for the simple fact that it happens more often than any society should like, or indeed tolerate. And speaking of the two other boys involved. You have to question their motives. When I was that age, boys would run a mile at the suggestion that they had put a bun in some girl\u2019s oven and, if anything, would be demanding a test to prove they were NOT the father, not that they WERE the father. But then, in my day, we wouldn\u2019t have had the fear of prosecution taken away within days of the birth and we also wouldn\u2019t have expected to get our ugly mugs in the national papers and all over the TV news. What we would have expected would be a good kicking from the girl\u2019s father, followed up by a kicking from our own father and a hastily arranged wedding day. In all honestly, reading the article linked to above is actually quite disturbing. It paints a picture of life which a worrying amount of the population lead, and a life that the rest of the population would rather not know about. And yet, the very people who are failing their own children are being quoted by the paper in such a way as to appear to be blaming the society they live in rather than accepting any responsibility themselves. Of the two new boys mentioned in the article, one is currently suspended from school (and has been for three months) because he has failed to conduct himself in the appropriate manner. He has, apparently, \u2018anger-management\u2019 issues. When I was at school this used to be called \u2018a bad temper\u2019. And, naturally, we get the quote about there being \u2018nothing for the kids to do\u2019. Oh well, in that case it\u2019s perfectly okay if they are staying over in random girls houses and having unprotected sex. It does come back to Chantelle\u2019s parents again though, doesn\u2019t it? What on earth were they doing allowing boys their daughter had know for just a few weeks stay in her room overnight? 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