jkefka
2009-03-27 05:43 pm UTC (link)

I wouldn't call my response "relieved." I mean, there's still the issue that these two were having unprotected sex at stupidly young ages and there's also the matter of whoever is the father. Regardless, they're both still caught up in this godawful mess since he seems to be the only male involved willing to take any kind of responsibility, albeit in a very juvenile way. Also everyone still seems to be trying to profit off the publicity. Unless all the money coming from this is going straight into the costs of raising the baby, the whole situation will continue to alarm me.

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	sheep 2009-03-27 06:15 pm UTC (link)
	That and all the comments about how the mother of the baby is a slut/whore/fugly etc., but few comments about all the boys involved. >:( (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	funwithrage 2009-03-27 06:57 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah. For all that Alfie might have been a li'l dumbass in re: having unprotected sex, I do kind of like his quoted sentiment. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

jkefka
2009-03-27 09:12 pm UTC (link)

I kinda have some tiny degree of respect for the kid. I mean, I think he's an absolute twit for getting in this mess in the first place in any number of ways, but it seems like he genuinely wants to take care of the baby and he's the only one who's said anything even on the topic of child-rearing. I mean, at 13 I'm not going to say he's fit to be a father, but he's at least trying to take some kind of responsibility. Everyone else just seems to be fighting for the spotlight with no regard for the kid.

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	funwithrage 2009-03-28 12:53 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, me too. And even the twitness...I mean, the kid was twelve. Everyone's a twit at twelve. (Where the hell were the parents in this scenario, anyhow?) And now that he's in this mess, he's doing a lot better than I'd expect from a kid of that age. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	vzg 2009-03-28 07:30 pm UTC (link)
	Where the hell were the parents in this scenario, anyhow? Just downstairs, from the sound of it. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	vzg 2009-03-27 08:50 pm UTC (link)
	This. And it's only going to get worse now. (Reply to this)(Parent)

sevendeadlyfun
2009-03-27 08:55 pm UTC (link)

You don't enjoy a good old-fashioned round of slut shaming? Tsk. Nothing puts the funtimes in teen pregnancy like some misogyny.

I don't have enough mad and sad faces for this massively unfunny business. I just don't. I've had to sit on my hands to keep from starting huge wankfests in multiple comms because of the unreal amount of slut shaming going on. The whole situation is bad for all the kids involved, but to state outright that she deserves international humiliation? Wow. DO NOT WANT.

See, this is why I need to keep sitting on my hands.

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	ariadne484 2009-03-28 05:40 pm UTC (link)
	Here, have some Internet Fruit. While you're holding it, you can't type, and its taste is soothing as one deals with slut shaming and other misogyny. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	lady_jafaria 2009-03-29 01:59 am UTC (link)
	Damn it, now I want a strawberry. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	lady_ganesh 2009-03-30 05:02 pm UTC (link)
	Am I the only one increasingly convinced that the real father is well above legal age, and possibly related to the poor girl? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nostariel 2009-04-01 08:06 pm UTC (link)
	That's the first thing I thought when I read this post. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	velvet_mace 2009-03-27 06:39 pm UTC (link)
	Seems pretty abusive to the 12 year old boy. I gotta say that puppy like happiness and pride at being a father just tells me he's still got a whole lot of little kid in him. (Reply to this)

	kenovay 2009-03-27 07:17 pm UTC (link)
	I'm not relieved at all, now it's even more of a mess. :( (Reply to this)

	persona 2009-03-27 08:03 pm UTC (link)
	I certainly wouldn't say I'm relieved, either. I wish that they would stop shoving these poor children into the spotlight, particularly in this manner. The entire way it's being reported is, really, painfully exploitive. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	loopywafflehead 2009-03-27 09:45 pm UTC (link)
	It really is. The whole thing is heartbreaking, especially the way Chantelle has been treated by everyone involved. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	miss_padfoot 2009-03-28 06:38 am UTC (link)
	The fact that we know their names at all seems off to me. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	felinephoenix 2009-03-28 08:03 am UTC (link)
	It really is. There's a reason most news outlets are supposed to have a rule against naming children in these situations (or sexual abuse victims in general), either implicitly or in writing. / angry journalism major (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kookaburra 2009-03-29 02:28 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, my step-sister is a journalism major too, and she can't even mention this case without getting really, really angry. It's horrible, just horrible all around. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sisterelwood 2009-03-28 01:16 am UTC (link)
	There will never be enough alcohol to make this okay. These parents are the biggest morons in this whole thing. Wait... not morons- opportunistic leeches. Yeah, that sounds about right. Those poor kids. (Reply to this)

	erototoxin 2009-03-28 02:16 am UTC (link)
	That must've been a huge hoodie. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	felinephoenix 2009-03-28 08:04 am UTC (link)
	I was thinking the same thing. That or really tiny print. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	pipssister 2009-03-28 01:05 pm UTC (link)
	You can see it if you click the second link. (Reply to this)(Parent)

octavia
2009-03-28 04:55 am UTC (link)

I don't see where relief comes in. That's quite a double standard there. I mean, apart from what the boy is going through after this revelation, there's a young girl with a baby, whose father is now unknown. He might look like a kid, the mom is still a kid too and even though she doesn't look quite as young, she is.

And they're all in the spotlight, surrounded by scheming people. It's profoundly sad.

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crazyace86
2009-03-28 04:04 pm UTC (link)

Y'know, back when this first broke, all I could think was that this was nothing knew. In my mother's seventh grade class, there was a boy named C. C knocked up his fourteen-year-old girlfriend when he was twelve; and there was no mistaking the child's father, as she was was the spitting image of him.

They eventually got married, and the daughter, who had been mostly raised by her grandparents, turned out fairly well-adjusted. So, happy ending in this case.

But all I can think is that these kids aren't going to get that chance at a happy ending. I am a little relieved that he's not the father, but overall I am simply saddened over it. This has no business being in the news at all, except maybe as anonymous example of teen pregnancy and related problems.

Also, instead of calling this girl a slut/whore, how about getting her some help because if she is sleeping around at that age, something is severely not right.

Oh, look at me using logic, for shame. /bitter, angry sarcasm

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	damien 2009-03-28 08:58 pm UTC (link)
	I have to admit, I'm glad that he's willing to stick around even though it's not his. Crazy amount of responsibility to take on, but from the sound of it, at least he cares about her and she's not going to have to deal with this mess alone? What a way to be thrust out of childhood, though. Those poor kids. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	bienegold 2009-03-28 10:13 pm UTC (link)
	Seriously, this kid's got some class. I'm not saying it's not a terrible situation, but what a good kid. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	tiye 2009-03-29 11:43 pm UTC (link)
	Oh my god. The boy looks like he's about 8 years old. These poor kids. (Reply to this)