Holy ethics part 2

Things surely can't get any worse? First we had octomum and lets be honest, her story was pretty low on the moral chart. Now there is a new shocker.

Aflie -as pictured- is a proud father. He is still a child himself. He is 13. Yes 13 and his blushing girlfriend is 15. Where do I start?

This is a prime example of the wearing away of Britain's moral values. Alfie was 12 and Chantelle 14 when they conceived. Really? I was playing with Barbie dolls at Emma Magee's house up until age 11. Not to mention, Alfie looks like he's eight or nine and I don't mind saying what you are all thinking. How literally did it happen? She looks a lot older. If he looks like this at 13 imagine how much younger he looked a year ago.

This story is such an embarrassment.

So you have just found out your 13 and going to be a father. What do you do next? Tell your parents of course. Yes. And what do said respectable parents do? Sell your story to the highest bidder- silly. Make a laughing stalk of your life and the biggest mistake you'll probably ever make. Although this may not turn out to be Alfie's only mistake given his obvious lack of support network.

Apparently they now have a publicist and like Miss Octomum are awaiting the pay check.

Children make mistakes and it's an easy cop-out to blame the parents. But.. In this case, they are making the whole thing worse. Alfie is not the first 13 year old father in Britain, he just has the added misfortune to have numskull scummy parent's who are happy to exploit him.

Not to mention the blushing new mother. The latest news is that several other boys have come forward saying they could be the father. Well isn't she the apple of her parent's eye.

14 and inviting all the local boys around. Now poor Alfie says he wants a paternity test. How the plot thickens. Next, we'll see the headline, 'Chantelle: 'my bleeding heart for Alfie''

Give me a break!!!!

Surely we need to look at ourselves? What is going on when children as young as 12 are having sex? Earlier I said it's the easy option to blame the parents. In this case I think we have to. Are they being told as youngsters 'have sex, have babies, get a house, go on the dole, it's easy, the gov will pay?'

In one of his many 'exclusive' Sun interviews Alfie said this weekend:

"I thought it would be good to have a baby"

"I didn't think about how we would afford it. I don't really get pocket money. My dad sometimes gives me £10"

"I didn't know what it would be like to be a dad. I will be good, though, and care for it."

I recently re-watched the film the Magdaline Sister's. If you haven't seen it, it's about the Magdaline Asylum's which existed in Ireland up until 1996. These 'asylums' were used as dumping grounds for pregnant unmarried women. Families who couldn't bare the embarrassment of pregnancies would forcibly place girls and women in these institutions. Nun's ran the asylum's as work houses. By all accounts, they were not pleasant places to be and the film at least was extremely harrowing.

The film got me thinking whilst reading this 13 year old dad story.

In forty years look how far we have come on moral issues. We have come from hiding pregnant women in asylums to flaunting 13 year old dads on newspapers. Is either better or worse? Is it not as shaming to humiliate a child like Alfie on a paper cover, as to commit a pregnant girl to an asylum? And clearly whatever we are doing to promote sex education is working as well as telling children it's a mortal sin. In fact maybe we should resort back to lying. Maybe by telling them they will burn in hell, little Alfie's might keep their trousers on. It appears we have regressed to the 60's. Things today are no better than the asylums and shaming of the 60's. We can't stop them getting pregnant and we have terrible methods of dealing with it when they do.