Alfie Patten and Chantelle Steadman with their newborn
(Looks to me like elder brother feeding his younger brother)
Today morning, I woke up to some disturbing news on Times Of India daily. A 13 year old becomes father, said the news. The news piece that featured a picture of the 13yo boy with his girlfriend who is 15 years of age, sent me to tizzy. I know that kids these days are stepping into maturity way sooner than earlier generations. I’ve long discussions with my friends quite often and we almost believe that it’s due to over exposure by media and sadly by over nutrition and chemicals pumped by cheeseburgers and those fried chicken kind of stuff, that children, these days are losing innocence way sooner and started experiencing basic instincts of life sooner than supposed to be(deep sigh).
It became very hard on my part to believe the story. Because the boy, Alfie Patten, in particular looked darn so cute maybe like a 7-8 year-old, so innocent with not even a single pimple popping out on his lovely cheeks. But, yes this 13-year-old whose name is Alfie Patten reported of saying that he will be a good dad and does care to be one. Acting way too big for his age. His girlfriend, Chantelle Steadman, who is just 15 is in a birth suite struggling to breast-feed her baby, Maisie Roxanne, while her peers are enjoying in school playground. What to wish these two father and mother duo Alfie and Chantelle, who left their childhood and embraced parenthood this early in their lives?
Alfie Patten whose face is still baby like holding his baby, Maisie Roxanne
I think Homo sapiens became a sick species by now and looks like mutating to something horrible (we have seen enough of paedophilics and enough of perverts but this is something indigestible). Isn’t this high time for parents, governments and media to take a pledge so we don’t see happening of such disturbing things in future?
3 comments:
Even my day started on the same lines!! After the reading the news.. me and my flatmates had a huge discussion on this..
I really don't understand onething(or may be being an Indian I am not very used to this).. Did the teenager's parents support them in this(When Mr. Patten said "I will be a good Dad"??
The world is moving really fast!! The Indian kids are not far behind.. As I speak to many kids.. I find a lot of difference between when I was 13 and the kids who now are 13(Keeping in mind that I am not very old!!)
I also feel that to avoid any such surprises in our life.. Its high time elder brothers/sisters and parents give enough freedom to kids.. so that they can come up and tell what exactly is happening in their life.. and we should start accepting that anything under the sun is not impossible..
You know what? When I was 13, all I knew was that when a girl is kissed on lips, she would become pregnant. That had been my sanity (or insanity)! But yes world changing so fast.
I get to know from my neighbor who works as a teacher in a Kendriya Vidyalaya that kids of 4th and 5th grades these days are proposing to girls of their respective classes. Children who should be otherwise busy playing are losing sanity. Whom to blame?
And, Britain has a bad reputation when it comes to teenage pregnancy, India is catching up with the statistics though. How innocent and child like Alife Patten looks? He suddenly became Mister Alife Patten from Master Alife Patten!
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