Boy fathers child at twelve and girl at fourteen

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...cle2238252.ece

It's only really the tabloids that are covering this one. Thought I might as well post it up (I'm making a habit of backroom posting).

Thing is this sort of story is all too common across the UK. This one only happened to get to press after a family member shopped them to the Sun (who had a four page article on them yesterday). The families, both of them, although particularly the mother's, appear to be members of the ignorant "Jeremy Kyle Show" underclass that exists across Britain - in other words, council housed, unemployed and living off benefits. That translates as a useless burden on the state in my book.

The question is what should be done about it? Sex education isn't making a difference, it's existed since the sixties and teen pregnancies have been on the rise since. I don't really understand how it works, but perhaps its message opposing young sex isn't clear enough or indeed real enough. It's probably just a couple of cartoon drawings where the real side of having a kid isn't shown - maybe adding interviews with teen mums and their families on how hard it is and how damaging to their lives it has been could have a positive effect.

Of course, there is another option, start convicting parents maybe, but I don't think that would really make any difference either - modern children don't listen to their parents (not really always a bad thing though with the kind of parents we have nowadays). Punishing the children themselves would be morally wrong IMO, so that in my eyes isn't really an option.

Anyhow, thoughts?