I was listening to the radio the other day and this topic was naturally being discussed. There were several people ringing in with the usual opinions being stated.
Then a gentleman called who said his daughter actually got preganant at 13 by a boy a year older. Instead of excusing her behaviour he was brutally honest and said he had failed her as a parent and she had been bloody stupid. Both he and his wife had tried to convince her to have an abortion but she refused. The father of the baby naturally disappeared sharpish. He said that the media were harrassing them 24/ 7 and offering them obscene amounts of money for the 'story' but he felt this was a private family matter that was not for public consumption and also felt quite personally ashamed of the situation.
Now some 6 years later he said he was proud that his daughter coped with so much at such an early age but without the support of the family she would not have been able to do so.
The circumstances between the 2 stories are very similar but the outcomes extremely different. This now just appears to be a media showcase and the 1 person at the centre of this whole story, the baby, seems to have been lost between numbers, the ages of the children and the amounts of money being paid to the parties involved
