Kids are Skanks Too

Amanda: Ha, Don, I got the better color.

Alfie Patten is allegedly a father at age 13 - so says the British rag "The Sun." I've got a few problems wrapping my head around this whole thing.

Donny Walnuts: Heh... I'm sensing another two candidates for a bunch of democrats to deem my money is better spent on than myself...

Amanda: 1) It's "The Sun." They run stories about alien abductions and finding Atlantis and their website reads something like an anime episode that gives seizures to children. The whole piece is highly sensational and while it is theoretically possible (and probable), I'm rendering a guess that we're not getting the whole story here. Especially when more credible news outlets have been hesitant to follow the story (two posts on CNN, a bunch on Fox [who is calling BS], and none in the NYT).

2) IF the story IS true, a 15-year-old having a baby with a 13-year-old boy isn't anything new. I went to school with a girl who got pregnant in 9th grade. Kids are having sex younger and menarche occurs in girls younger too and the combination is lethal (well, technically not lethal, since it's bearing babies). But in such cases, where are the parents? If I came home knocked up NOW my mom would ship me straight to Planned Parenthood to "abort mission" - she probably would have skinned me alive if I were pregnant at 15.

Donny Walnuts: I ask this same question and have this exact line of thought process with many kids these days. Not only that, but I have that same thought with a lot of adults actually... you're barely living off of what you have now and you're going to afford a child? The fact that you think that also shows your lack of responsibility... another reason why a child should not be brought into the world under these circumstances. Amanda, I think that I would love to be around when you presented such information, either that or really far away. I think your dad would be very profound... or very profane.

Amanda: My dad doesn't really talk about sex/babies. My mom, on the other hand, is vehemently against anyone under the age of 28 having a child. When one of my sister's "friends" got pregnant, she flipped out and said that she'd have that thing "sucked out faster than a hooker sucking dick." (I really wish I was kidding...)

Anyway, number three: The bible thumpers are up in boots because this story is the "perfect reason why comprehensive sex ed doesn't work." My question to them is: "Does abstinence-only sex ed work?" I wrote a 10-page thesis on why it DOESN'T - because, by numbers, it doesn't. You can't stick your head in the sand and pretend kids won't have sex, but the more you say "DON'T DO IT YOU'LL DIE OF AIDS AND BABIES" the more kids will WANT to do it. At least give them the smarts to use contraceptives when the time comes...

Donny Walnuts: I heard the same thing, I don't even know if at age 13 I got a "comprehensive sex ed." though. What I do know is that I wasn't taught about sex in the sense of the actual education of what part goes where and what happens when. I was taught about the responsibility that was required to take care of one, and what a financial requirement it was to take on a child. Both by my parents.

I've always thought to myself that I wanted to spoil myself before I deticated my life to having a family... even if that family is limited to just Morgan and myself. I have yet to spoil myself or fall into a bucket of money that would constitute conception of a child much less raising one (although I have not been deturred from the physical act of conception ....surprisingly ...not really.). At age 13 I wasn't thinking about sex... I don't think I was anyways. I was too worried if the girl I like actually liked me back, much less the thought of getting in her pants... forget her dropping full trau and us bumping uglies. What the hell is going through this kids head at age 13?

Amanda: I agree. I just wanted a boy to like my pimply face and terrible fashion sense. I didn't have a boyfriend 'til I was 15 and it took us three months to even kiss in the first place.

Donnie Walnuts: ...do you think Ron Jeremy or Peter North were like that at age 13?

I'm a horny bastard but never have I been out of control to the point of stupidity (I.E. - lack of contraception).

Amanda: And that's the bottom line in the whole thing.