NEWS: Pregnancy Makes Her Skin Glow Like an 11-Year Old

If that is sarcasm I did not catch it.
If that girl instills the same morals and values as she had growing up that kid will be smoking a pack a day by the time he/she is 5, and knocked up/knocking someone up at like 8.

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I really think that it is terrible that a girl who is not even a teenager is having a baby, she has no idea how hard its going to be. i think that its kinda stupid that her mum is proud of her stupid and dangerous behavior.

"Yeah but no but yeah..."

That's exactly what I was getting at. Thank you.

That's what really gets me. If this was an eleven year old who got pregnant and decided she had to grow up fast to raise her kid, it would be one thing.

But all the quotes in the article imply that she's already not taking care of her child (how exactly could you 'find' it effecting your pregnancy?!). She also sounds like she thinks its going to be all pram shopping and swimming lessons too.

I place the blame for all of that on the mom though. When I was in grade five I pretty much needed my mom to force me to brush my teeth and wear clean clothes. I don't see how this girl could do it without a very very supportive and responsible parent.

And the mom seems proud in a strange way. Proud as in "Now my daughter and I can be mums together! We can take our kids swimming, and let them get drunk and stay out all night! AND, we're famous and in all the papers!"

I also agree with the poster who said it seems like pubesent pregnancy sounds like it could be fatal.

But extrapolate this backwards.

Some of you say her child will likely wind up the same way, and some of you blame her mother. I think the odds of her mother having children in very much the same situation as her is high. So do you blame her mother? Etc. etc.

I don't really think you should be allowed to have and/or keep kids if you have no possible way to support them.

The problem with that though comes with the fact that it's hard to draw a line between able and unable to support a kid like a while back there were some people who had their kids taken off of them cos they were apparently not smart enough to be parents or some such excuse since they had learning difficulties even though they were perfectly fine parents.

Gilmore Girls redux

I've seen younger:
5 years old


I also like how it says she "fell" pregnant, as if she had fallen ill or something.

Good article. It briefly reminded me of some relatives of mine in Georgia. They believe themselves to be humanitarians and, over the years, wound up adopting 10 children. 5 of them were Hispanic siblings from Texas. One of them at the age of twelve gave birth to actually a healthy, beautiful little baby girl. My relatives adopted this child and decided to watch their twelve year old like a hawk after that. That didn't work, however, because she got pregnant again a year later. They adopted this child as well. He was healthy, but very hard to raise with 11 other children...one of them being barely a year older than he was. Eventually, the court told them that they had to have an IUD implanted in her. Meanwhile, she's learned nothing and has no plans for her future. Life is just fucking depressing, when you think about it.

grandma by 22!

Wow...that had to have been rape. It makes me want to puke, when I think about someone who would do that to a five year old girl.

The worst part is the mother's pride. It's actually made me feel very uncomfortable.

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What, exactly, does crabbit mean?

[Edited on May 15, 2006 by Heathen_Dave]

I'm just speculating here but i think its someting along the lines of "icky"

Or "crabby".

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stupid html...
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She was getting regular periods when she was 3???

Statutory rape charges generally have age difference clauses. It's almost never simply a matter of age. Often one can get off (no pun intended) for ALSO being underaged, if close enough in age to the "victim."

Let's say a teen couple in a state where the age of consent is 18 have sex. He's 16, she's 15. Under most age of consent laws neither would be chargeable. If he were 17 and she were 13, he probably would be. She on the other hand would not.

this is a terrible situation, stunning. sounds like she doesn't even have anyone to fall back on to help and guide. not to mention the already addressed physical risks to her in this... wow. i've only spent short visits to the UK, do they not have some quality social services that can step in and help? seems like they would from what little i know of them. i realize, though, that effectiveness in particular areas is always questionable with any system... not much to say, just a terrible situation.


side topic'ed: i'm always, always, always, amazed to hear what other members were like when they were 11 or 12 or 16 when ages are discussed. most of you describe functioning at a 5-7year old level at 11 (and even 16 years old) whenever we talk about our younger years (not referencing just this thread, but in general)... no matter what subject got us going. i wonder whether this is inaccurate "back in my day"ing that every generation falls into or if that much slower of development is really more common than my personal and work experience has shown so far.

Truly, for me, I was just very much a goody two shoes type. But, even "the bad kids" I knew growing up don't compare to some of the things I've been hearing kids do these days. Sure, they did drugs and fucked and stuff......but not at 11.

at 11, I was having the odd snog with boys at the under 18 disco (the oldest patrons being maybe 14 or 15) but that was pretty much as far as it went. Heavy drinking didn't come til I was 14.. which isn't very early at all for Britain, at least where I live.
Obviously this girl has been exposed to elements of life at an earlier age than would be good for her.. but it's hard to say without seeing what she's actually like, as opposed to how the media is painting her. it's inevitable that any young girl up the duff in britain these days is going to get the Vicky Pollard comparisons.


I'd also like to make the point that a lot of you seem to be forgetting - that underage pregnancy is not exclusively the domain of "this demographic" - or the poor and working class, as those of us with more spade-calling tendencies prefer to say.