13 Year old becomes father.

Why isn't the mother in jail?

Would happen to a boy in a similar situation.

A 13 year old gets more action than most of TSR

fair play to him

Knew it was a mancunian story soon as you read "chuffed to bits", true manc phrase.

The individuals identities were kept confidential.

I dont think its illegal for an older girl to have sex with a yonger boy, as i understand it, correct me if im wrong, but the age of consent is only relevent to girls?

i swear this story is quite old?

Read the last line of my post and have a look at the video in my sig. Most of these 'fathers' are useless chavs as well. However, young girls represent a much bigger problem in the UK today, especially wrt alcohol. My point was in reference to the bit of the article where the girl did not know who the father was. That makes her a slag.

Why are you getting so defensive? Did you also get pregnant at 13 or 14?

We need better sex ed. Everything I learnt about sex came from magazines, and we certainly had no decent sex ed until we were about 15, which is ridiculously late. Most of the girls in my class could have taught the teachers a thing or two by then! I find it wierd that kids so young are having sex, but just saying 'it's illegal until you're sixteen' just presents a challenge and makes it cool if you do it before then. Thats not to say that there shouldn't be the age of consent, but that kids should have proper education well before they start hitting puberty.

I dont think its illegal for an older girl to have sex with a yonger boy, as i understand it, correct me if im wrong, but the age of consent is only relevent to girls?

Those accused of child rape can no longer argue that the child consented. Any sexual intercourse with a child under 13 will be treated as rape. Other non-consensual offences against children under 13 are sexual assault by penetration, sexual assault, and causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.

There are new offences of sexual activity with a child under 16. These cover a range of behaviour, involving both physical and non-physical contact. As children and young persons commit sexual crimes on other children, these offences apply also to persons under 18.

Prosecution of those under 18
The age of consent is 16. Because children can and do abuse and exploit other children, the Act makes it an offence for children under 16 to engage in sexual activity, to protect children who are victims.

However, children of the same or similar age are highly unlikely to be prosecuted for engaging in sexual activity, where the activity is mutually agreed and there is no abuse or exploitation.

The Crown Prosecution Service has issued guidance to prosecutors, which sets out the criteria they should consider when deciding whether or not it is in the public interest to bring a prosecution.

WTF does "chuffed to bits" mean?

I agree so much, the UK has the highest teen pregnancy rate in Europe and it's because we have crap sex education. It's all very well saying "oh he wasn't mature enough to use a condom" or "she's a slag" ( ) but if kids have never been taught how to deal with these things then we can't put all of the blame on them, they've been completely failed by their schools/parents who haven't given them proper sex education.

I mean, I really could never fault a 13 year old for not knowing to use a condom when we were only really told this at the age of 14. It really is far too late, I mean it doesn't do any harm to give kids the information sooner but it does a lot of harm to give it to them later. In fact it probably does them good to give it sooner, because it will be more ingrained and will be second nature rather than something new they are learning.