Girl, 11, Gives Birth to Baby Boy

[Calypso 464]

Ah, I like what St. Paul tells us. He says something like celibacy is the best rule but if you couldn't keep yourself celibate due to calls of the flesh then you must get married. But 11 in the U.S. isn't an age for marriage and even grown ups like us didn't marry when we heeded the call.

Some villages in Nepal still practice child marriage when kids are 7 but they don't let the kids live together as man and wife until they reach their late teen years. The bride's family receives reasonable dowry when the right time comes (for the kids to live together) for keeping the girl a virgin after long years from the child marriage.

[mRx 16]

C'mon Booyah.

As in other highly developed countries (like Australia,) we have a social "safety net" that's designed to protect the less-than-fortunate.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Just think, when the newborn graduates high school, mom will be under 30 years old. She could be a grandma before she turns 35 (unless especially if her newborn also has a child at an early age***). And a great-grandma by 55.

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***Doing the math, he doesn't even have to be an early father--as he can be up to 24.

[Ali G. 37]

C'mon Booyah.

As in other highly developed countries (like Australia,) we have a social "safety net" that's designed to protect the less-than-fortunate.

Don't blame me for that, thank the lefties there.

However, as they are not the US, under such a similar situation, various government agencies would look into their circumstances and possibly take both the child and baby from the care of irresponsible parents.

Edited February 15, 2010 by Booyah

[rika60607 215]

It is okay, because when anyone is wronged, something should be done about it.

It is okay, because underage mammalians are treated with kid's gloves and do not have the same responsibilities as adults - it is not even a human law, but a law of nature.

Why is it okay for a parents to sue and cry murder when their child is allegedly wronged, yet hide and shift blame when the child does wrong?

[Niels Bohr 72]

How many people on VJ lost their virginity at a young age before the age of consent?

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Of course her baby will be fine. Uncle Bill here is the one that will be paying for its upbringing.

Yep, and you have no choice not to pay. So STFU and stop being a moaning old git.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Sex education, coupled with responsible parenting, seems to be working extremely well in this case. We hold schools and the rest of society accountable yet when it comes to negligent and irresponsible parents, they get a free pass; freedom of choice I believe. Well, where is my freedom to not have to support this child? She cannot even work for another five or six years.

In 2010, I think parents should be held personally accountable for the actions of their child, that is under 16. Why is it okay for a parents to sue and cry murder when their child is allegedly wronged, yet hide and shift blame when the child does wrong?

Practically, how do you imagine that the parents should be held "personally accountable" for this?

[Ali G. 37]

Yep, and you have no choice not to pay. So STFU and stop being a moaning old git.

Maybe I am missing something that but includes you.

This is where I got you, usually people with such limited views blame it on the old folk, whereas, I'm in my early thirties. Study after study reports an increase in teen pregnancies, which you seem to have a problem grasping and accepting.

[Ali G. 37]

Practically, how do you imagine that the parents should be held "personally accountable" for this?

Simple, when a kid is charged, for example, with murdering another child, his parent should also investigated for negligence. If they are found to be negligent before a court of law, they too serve time. The notion is quite simple for a civilized society. It's called legislating for the time.

Parents who have lived up to their responsibility have little to fear.

Edited February 16, 2010 by Booyah

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Maybe I am missing something that but includes you.

This is where I got you, usually people with such limited views blame it on the old folk, whereas, I'm in my early thirties. Study after study reports an increase in teen pregnancies, which you seem to have a problem grasping and accepting.

I'm not blaming it on anyone, BY. $hit happens - yes there are bad parents, but unlike you I have no interest in using news headlines as some arbitrary barometer of social degeneration.

You can take your outrage and stick it up your tight arsehole.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Simple, when a kid is charged, for example, with murdering another child, his parent should also investigated for negligence. If they are found to be negligent before a court of law, they too serve time. The notion is quite simple for a civilized society. It's called legislating for the time.

Parents who have lived up to their responsibility have little to fear.

Well the only charges that will be filed here will be against the father. But that only happens if the father is of legal age. If both are underage then there's no "crime".

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

There was a story this weekend in the St. Pete Times about a Guatemalan guy who knocked up an 11 year old girl who gave birth at 12. Neither he nor her parents thought that there was anything wrong with that. He's apparently getting a new trial - after having been convicted - because he only speaks some tribal language - Mam, I think it was called - and doesn't even understand Spanish. It's a fcuked up world - quite literally...

[Amor1 0]

The parents should be investigated for child neglect and abuse. It is conceivable that a close relative or boyfriend of the mother impregnated this child. Where is the local Child Protective Services agency? The mother is 100% to blame for this.

Edited February 16, 2010 by Amor1

[Marilyn. 340]

thought this was interesting...

http://www.thenationalcampaign.org/resourc...R_1940-2006.pdf

according to this teen birth rates were the highest in the 1950's (age 15 to 19)