Dad at 13?

[R1Geezer]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/arti cle2233878.ece
Jesus, Mary and Joseph! WTF is going on? the lad's kin 13 for christ sake and it's game over! A miserable existance on benefits for him and his older woman for the rest of their natural. What's the legal position?

[BRIGHT SPARK]

Well I think someone put him up to it !!!

[LoftyLottie2]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090216/tuk-dad-at -13-alfie-will-get-dna-test-on-45dbed5.html

[Joolee1980]

and now other boys are saying THEY are the father. what a squalid little story

[sandmaster]

More scroungers.

[LoftyLottie2]

I know, I know, it's the Daily Mail and I am not saying it is true, but isn't this what several of us on here have suspected all along.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-114852 1/Teenage-mother-told-say-13-year-old-Alfie-ba bys-father-cash-story.html

Also, saw on the news last night that the mother is being prosecuted for keeping him out of school.

[k8bailey]

Thunderchild I think this is a bit extreme:
"Child benefit should be given to people of a minimum age (like 25+ because even at eighteen its too soon !!!)."

Im a 24 year old mother, own my own house, have a job, this is the only benefit I am recieveing.

Cocinelle' s comment was possibly the saddest, that Maisie will grow up knowing that she wasn't really wanted.

[Thunderchild]

well them maybe only give it to stable couples above 18, frankly we are at the mercy of people that take advantage of benefits because no matter what rules are made someone will find a way around them and some one will loose out. Really it needs deciding on a case by case basis but we know wjat happens to that in this country