3 sisters pg at 12, 14 and 16 - mother blames school for lack of sex education

[suzywong]

Of course it was in the Sun

I do not want to get in to the benefit angle at all, I just wonder if anyone else has any ideas about how to get the contraception message through to girls? I mean one of these kids was PG 3 times prior to this at under 16! Their mother blames the schools for not starting sex ed early enough.

What do you think?

I am soooooo sorry for this comment. No doubt i will get flamed. But so what.... It's sharon's husband by the way. NOT sharon so lerqave her alone.

How DARE the mother blame the school. Absolutely bang out of order. Parent who think that schools should teach moralks are no naive. By the time they get to school it's too late!

I know some schools have to teach kidfs to go to the toilet, and use a knife and fork (but not at the same time). The mother is obviously a complete slapper with NO morals. Who one earth hasn't taught their kids not to shag blokes at such a stupid dumb ass age? No excuse what-so-ever. A completely crap parent. Like many people say - you should have to hsve a license to have kids. You used to have to have a license to own a dog.

The parents should be busted for child abuse. they have obviously has failed all three of them. It's disgusting what parents let their kids get up to. And all for a quiet life. Pathetic

I am SO angry about this.

Anyone that gets turned on by such young kids needs their bits removed. With a pair of pliers.
Without anaesthetic.

Is it any womder the world is in such a mess when this sort of think is winked at? The fact that it makes news to titillate the masses appals me. Lock them up., The child molesting fathers of the children (because that what is amounts to - underage sex = child abuse) and the parent hwo can't @rsed to teach their kids to jeep their legs shut. DISGUSTING.

Erm

Well moving on. Nice weather we are hacving. Or not

AND Cant work mean cant be @rsed.

Can sponge enough money from taxpayers to make it worthwhiule siuttiong at home watching Jerry springer and moaning about my lot in life while ny kids sleep around.

Just think what tax you would be paying if we didn;t have to support the spongers and liars that plague our society with their deceit.

Boils my pish...

And yes stil sharons husband speaking.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!! Bring it on

I agree Bugsy, it has a lot do with aspirations and the area you grow up in. I went to a school where less than 5% of pupils left with 5 or more A-C GCSE's (the school has since closed). Most of my friends were sleeping with their boyfriends at a young age, most of them did not want to but did not have the confidence to say no. I always knew I wanted more than to live off benefits and a dead end job so I worked hard after I left school to build a career and to travel. Most of my friends left school and entered menial jobs and then got pregnant because that seemed to them to be the easier option. One of my old school mates allows her 14 year old boyfriend to sleep with his girlfriend because she was doing it at that age. The sad thing is I can remember that she was not emotionally mature enough at the time and turned to self harming herself because she thought she was 'cheap', it is a pity that she can't remember that herself.

I meant to say 14 year old son, not boyfriend!

Windermere that is so sad. When these stories are reported the girls are often quoted as saying that they'd like more for their child, don't regret having them but perhaps missing out on their fun now, but I fear that lesson gets soon forgotten.

I hadn't realised that the mother allowed her 11 year old to have sex in the house with her knowledge. Surely that should be reason for the mother to be charged, it is paedophilia.

I laugh at the thought she can't work because she is looking after her family. And a fine job she is doing of that. She should be out working not scrounging. Some of my friends are single mothers and to be classed in the same category as this woman is an insult. A couple work, one stays at home (with very young children and she actually does look after them.) Even in the article supposedly sympathetic to the family the mother still comes across as the class 1 idiot that she is.

If both sets of parents knew that the 11 year old was having sex then they should be held financially responsible for the child.

Family planning still gives away free condoms doesn't it?

This is Germaine Greer's take on those three girls' situation. It's different, anyway! Germaine Greer.

Disgusting!

The mother also has to take some of the blame but the children should know!

Its just common sense!

I'm shocked at some of the comments on here. They are frankly ignorant and offensive.

Did anyone actually see the programme that this family featured on? They seemed like a really nice, loving family who wanted the best for each other.

There are a lot of women who post on MN who obviously have less supportive and loving family environments in which to bring up their children.

Morning paper

2 of these gilr were breaking the law by having sex and getting ''knocked up''.

Would you like your DD to get pregnant at 12!

Of course it's a sad situation.

I'm sure there are plenty of MNetters who fished around in boy's trousers before their 16th birthday.

True

But does that make it right?

It's not ideal.

But they seemed like a very reasonable, loving family.

Camera's can lie.

Responsable. Having sex under the age of 16 isn't what I call responsable.

Plenty of irresponsible hussies here. I'm sure plenty of us were having irresponsible sex well into our forties.

(Didn't you have your first baby when you were 16? Why was that more 'responsible' than having it a few months earlier? Genuinely curious about what you think.)

mumof10 - no it's not responsible, but then a 12 yr old is a child and that's the whole point.

It's a sad situation and the mother should have acted differently in some ways but I think mp is right - it's not fair to judge the girls (or even the mother) too harshly.

Well

1.I had sex with a boy I had been with for 2 years who I loved more than anything

and

2. I did NOT have underage sex.I chose to have my child when I did. Not at 12 or 14.

Sorry to butt in but morningpaper they also came across to me as a very warm loving family and the fact of the matter is, it is done now and they are handling it the best way they can - whether the girls set out to get pregnant rightly or wrongly they each have a baby. Maybe it is just a good example to others not to go down the same route?

Well there you are - lots of teenage girls have sex because they think they love the boy 'more than anything.' I don't think it's a tragedy, whether they are 12 or 16.

There've been women here who have admitted that they have sex with their husbands so that they can buy more stuff! That seems more tragic to me.

I just don't see why we judge this family so harshly, and why it's so acceptable to throw mud at 'council scum'.

I agree Ruthiemum.

Anyway

Point is their mother is blaming the school!

First people complain children get taught too much sex education at school so eventually when they ton eit down there is complaints they didn't get taught enough!

mumof10 - about halfway down the thread it transpired that the mother didn't blame the school - she just said she thought sex education should start earlier. It was the Sun that decided that meant she "blamed" the school.

Oh, Sorry.