Monday, February 16, 2009

Young Love

Meet Alfie Patten. At 13 years old, he's the proud papa of a bouncing baby girl. Mom's all the way 15 years old. They were 12- and 14-years-old when the baby was conceived.
Today, there was a wrinkle to the story. Two other teenagers have come forth claiming that they might be the father. It seems Mama got around.
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Kids. They grow up so fast nowadays. When I was 12, I was in 7th grade, and was still adjusting to the fact that girls no longer had cooties.

4 comments:

Amanda said...

What gets me is that JUST NOW people have started getting up in arms about stuff like this. Stuff like this happens all the time in San Antonio. My ex boyfriend, for instance, was born when his mother was 12. He was conceived at 11. His dad was only a year or two older than that. He had three younger brothers all from the same dad, because they got married after the first kid was born. It's hard to know that when we were dating, his mom was the same age I am now, if not younger. Yeah.

terry said...

you know, you're right. the only thing that makes this newsworthy is the fact that papa looks like he should still be in diapers. it's really not about his age.

it reminds me of the old Kidnapping maxim - if you're going to get kidnapped, make sure you're young, female, white, blonde, and buxom. if you're a black plain-looking male and someone kidnaps you, ain't nobody gonna come looking for you.

Anonymous said...

G'day mate,

Turns out that the babyface isn't the father of the nipper:

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25250230-663,00.html

Strike me rowan and stone the flamin' crows, who'd have thought it ;-)

Alf.

terry said...

I like the suggestion that Mumsy's family was scamming Baby-Face's family for some $$$. The family that preys together, stays together.