How young is too young to be a parent?

[mcknia07]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2233878.ece"

Really young parents!

 

[Cyrus]

Want a baby Mcknia?

 

[mcknia07]

Umm, nope, I don't think so! Do you??

 

[binzing]

Holy (expletive(s))...

Thats really all I have to say.

 

[rootX]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2233878.ece"

Really young parents!

He looks like 6 to me But the girl looks like 10 year older.

 

[Cyrus]

Umm, nope, I don't think so! Do you??

How about making a baby, without the end product.

 

[Cyrus]

He looks like 6 to me But the girl looks like 10 year older.

I thought that girl was his mom!

 

[mcknia07]

They must be teaching a lot more in schools now a days, than I had ever thought.

 

[Proton Soup]

wow, that's creepy-looking. but i have to say I'm impressed.

 

[mcknia07]

What's to be impressed about?

 

[Math Is Hard]

They must be teaching a lot more in schools now a days, than I had ever thought.

Or maybe they aren't teaching enough!

 

[rootX]

Only one word came to my mind: a**-****! I felt like they were influenced by movies / other media ... (just an indefensible feeling)

I think it should be illegal to have kids before 18 or 22 (they should do compulsory abortions).

 

[mcknia07]

Or maybe they aren't teaching enough!

That could be it, too. But when I was that young, I knew nothing about sex.

 

[mcknia07]

I think people need to take a test to be allowed to have children!

 

[Proton Soup]

What's to be impressed about?

dude's a stud.

 

[rootX]

I think people need to take a test to be allowed to have children!

Agree!

Something like
- how good is their relationship going
- if they can afford a kid
- how psychological fit they are

(will solve lots of problems)

 

[mcknia07]

And I think a mandatory drug test should be administered, that will weed out a lot of people. Let's put our idea into effect

 

[Proton Soup]

oh yeah, baby, BRING BACK EUGENICS!

 

[mcknia07]

dude's a stud.

Well this "dude" you so speak of, is like how much younger than you?

 

[Proton Soup]

Well this "dude" you so speak of, is like how much younger than you?

i'm thrice his age.

 

[mcknia07]

I'm pretty sure you don't want to be like him? Did you want a kid at that age?

 

[Proton Soup]

no, i like to think i was smarter than that. but i do think having sex with a girl two years older than me at his age would've been quite the confidence builder.

 

[mcknia07]

I'm not sure it was that much of a confidence boost, I mean it did say that the girl and her family are on government funding as it is now, with how many children. Sounds as if they both were looking for attention.

 

[Proton Soup]

I'm not sure it was that much of a confidence boost, I mean it did say that the girl and her family are on government funding as it is now, with how many children. Sounds as if they both were looking for attention.

eh? i remember being 15 and wanting to get in a girl's pants. it wasn't about attention, it was about sex. i certainly didn't want to get caught by adults, either.

 

[mcknia07]

Maybe guys think about it way more than girls do, I was never that way!

 

[Proton Soup]

Maybe guys think about it way more than girls do, I was never that way!

yes, that is the joy of testosterone.

 

[mcknia07]

Thank God I don't have those problems, (Ah, the joys of being a female!)

 

[mplayer]

I think people need to take a test to be allowed to have children!

1 test:

Show them a map of the world and say: "point to where you are".
If you aren't within, say, 150 miles of where you currently are in the world, you automatically get sterilized

Think that is reasonable?

 

[mcknia07]

1 test:

Show them a map of the world and say: "point to where you are".
If you aren't within, say, 150 miles of where you currently are in the world, you automatically get sterilized

Think that is reasonable?

Ah, too easy! It needs to be fairly large and very detailed. Oh, plus they should be timed!

 

[mattmns]

WOW! I had read the story, but never seen a picture of the little boy - that is just ridiculous!

 

[Proton Soup]

this is getting more Jerry Springerish by the minute

http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?13-year-old_dad_has_rivals_to_parental_claim&in_article_id=537584&in_page_id=34

 

[cristo]

Sigh.. I love how the only British news stories worth talking about are things like this. I have to say I was pretty shocked when I saw this the other day, since the guy looks about 8, and the girl about 16! There was one picture in the Sun yesterday with the child in the boys arms, while he was holding a playstation controller, staring at a TV screen and giving the kid absolutely no attention. The poor baby; he really doesn't have much of a chance. It really makes me sick that this family is cashing in on the 'novelty' when it's a child's life that's at stake here. For the past four days, the Sun has had a story on this, with about 6 pages devoted to it yesterday. Oh, and you should see the picture of the girl's mother!