When the Former Fundamentalists alerted us to this story, we asked for her reaction:
This news is old, by a few weeks now. After my intense reaction to the photos which accompanied the article, I felt I should comment on it and was asked to comment on it. Alas, it disturbed me so profoundly, I sat on its implications stunned and bewildered.
Just click on the link. Don't even read; just look at the pictures. That baby-faced, spud of a teen – not even close to the maturity required of a father – his image left me unsettled. Shocked. After the shock wore off, I only felt pity and sadness. A boy – a new family – failed by his upbringing, his education, his church - stood before a life he never should have stumbled upon.
That's weird for me. The usual response is red-faced anger. How do the images make you feel?
March 4, 2009
A Hard Lesson at 13 Years: Sex Make Me Baby
2 comments:
I completely agree with this post; I feel utter sadness toward this little boy dad. Perhaps it is because he is so small and looks so young. But a great deal of my feeling does stem from the fact that he has been failed by his family, his community and society at large. He is barely a teen, with a child's voice, and yet he felt like he had to have sex with his girlfriend. For what? Perhaps to prove he is as much as a man as his friends or his heroes on television or in film. Only when we as a society start to re-think how the social norms that we accept on a daily basis are damaging not only our adults but also our children will real change in areas such as teen pregnancy rates be possible. Until then, sad-faced children like little Alfie's will become increasingly common, I think.
It is so disturbing. Ugh. That photo plus the Octo-Mom birthing video (eek) is enough to drive any girl to a sextoy, or BIRTHCONTROL!!!
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