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Sisters give birth at 12, 14, 16

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4572219.stm

"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. "

How can she blame the school!!!!! Surely the school can not keep tabs on them 24 hours a day.
People like this really annoy me :evil:
Poor quality sex education does not count when you allow your 11 year old out of your sight for long enough that they are having sex anyway!
Grrr, this one got me mad.
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"poor quality sex education"

This obviously did not include saying "12 year olds having sex is illegal as is a 14 year old having sex" or "use some contraception" or "keep your bloody legs together and don't be such a hussy."

evil
It's amazing how many parents refuse to accept responsibility for their children, preferring instead to "pass the buck". Absolutely ridiculous of her to blame the school for it's "poor quality sex education". With a mentality like that, her children were already at a gross disadvantage! roll
From the BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4572219.stm

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.

[snip]

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."

[snip]

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."

/well, duh. What do you think a 14 year old boy is going to do?
Aren't they just sooo cute and clever? GRRRRRRRRR! evil

Those poor babies will end up just like their mothers.....and so it goes...
Wow, we have white trash in Britain now too? "T-Jay"? What sort of f***in name is that? Oh wait, it's a name given by someone who would normally be naming DOLLS.

I thought the exact same thing when I read the report late last night but I was too tired to hang around and post it here. It's a joke. The woman should be jailed for child abuse. A sort of passive, ignorant, uncaring, sit-on-your-arse child abuse.

East17 Wrote:
Wow, we have white trash in Britain now too? "T-Jay"? What sort of f***in name is that? Oh wait, it's a name given by someone who would normally be naming DOLLS.

I thought the exact same thing when I read the report late last night but I was too tired to hang around and post it here. It's a joke. The woman should be jailed for child abuse. A sort of passive, ignorant, uncaring, sit-on-your-arse child abuse.



Hasn't there always been the equivelent to "white trash" in England???
Hasn't there always been families with young teen pregnancies as well? It
just wasn't glorified so much by the media before. Having worked in health care in the 70's and 80's in the UK I can tell you it was not unusual for very young teens to be pregnant but I guess their parents were not so outspoken and brazen about the whole situation :roll: :D

cel Wrote:
Hasn't there always been the equivelent to "white trash" in England???.... Having worked in health care in the 70's and 80's in the UK I can tell you it was not unusual for very young teens to be pregnant but I guess their parents were not so outspoken and brazen about the whole situation :roll: :D

I guess that's what makes them "trash", the fact they want to blame the schools for it. Next they'll be blaming the Catholic church for not letting them wear one of those little rubber things.

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