BethFromVA 5 Posted February 15, 2009 Could you imagine growing up and finding out you were the baby in this story? *shudder* Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
plain 12 Posted February 17, 2009 Like bat faced baby and elvis is alive type stuff You mean that stuff isn't real?!? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jaffa 5 Posted February 17, 2009 "what are things coming to these days" It really isn't all that surprising to me. Heck, it has really only been the last 200 years that a girl didn't get married by 15. I'm not saying that's a good thing, just that in all of the history of humans, it has been a only recent development that people don't have sex until they are a little older. I think far more children are having sex then people want to believe....you just know for sure, when a baby pops out. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
skittles108 1 Posted February 17, 2009 Two more boys have come forward claiming they slept with this girl about the time of conception and could be the father. Stay tuned. It's definitely getting more interesting. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pattygreen 5 Posted February 17, 2009 "what are things coming to these days" It really isn't all that surprising to me. Heck, it has really only been the last 200 years that a girl didn't get married by 15. I'm not saying that's a good thing, just that in all of the history of humans, it has been a only recent development that people don't have sex until they are a little older. I think far more children are having sex then people want to believe....you just know for sure, when a baby pops out. You are soooo right. In other countries it is perfectly 'normal' to get married at the onset of puberty. I'm not saying I feel it's ok, because in America, people have set a legal age for this and that. But, God obviously doesn't have a problem with having babies at a young age, for he made the woman to be able to reproduce at the onset of menstruation.( he does not approve of sex outside of marriage, so please don't misunderstand what I'm saying here.) But,If these 2 'kids' were married, this would be ok with God. It is man's law that marriage is not ok until you are older. Not God's. After all, Mary had Jesus at the young age of 14. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
*susan* 1,709 Posted February 17, 2009 So, based on God's law, I could have gotten married when I was 9!! If only I had known then what I know now. Shucks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gone 4 ever 6 Posted February 17, 2009 O.K. Children here in the states have babies all the time. Gimme a break. If ya'll don't realize this then you need to wake up and smell the roses. I feel for the kids, but I am glad so many boys are stepping up to the plate and saying I might be the father. They are willing to try to take responsibility. Is it right she slept around...no. But she did. She now has a baby herself. Will I call her a tramp. no. I was sexually active at a very early age. I was sexually abused and fat. I wanted love. So that is how I tried to get love. I didn't get pregnant though until I was 18. So I feel blessed about that. I don't see why this was such a big news story. Not with the teenage pregnancy rate in the states and the world. And before anyone starts to critisize me on this, it is MY OPINION! not up for debate or arguments. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BethFromVA 5 Posted February 17, 2009 Two more boys have come forward claiming they slept with this girl about the time of conception and could be the father. Stay tuned. It's definitely getting more interesting. Two more in addition to the eight that were in the follow-up article I posted?? :tongue2: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BethFromVA 5 Posted February 17, 2009 You are soooo right. In other countries it is perfectly 'normal' to get married at the onset of puberty. I'm not saying I feel it's ok, because in America, people have set a legal age for this and that. But, God obviously doesn't have a problem with having babies at a young age, for he made the woman to be able to reproduce at the onset of menstruation.( he does not approve of sex outside of marriage, so please don't misunderstand what I'm saying here.) But,If these 2 'kids' were married, this would be ok with God. It is man's law that marriage is not ok until you are older. Not God's. After all, Mary had Jesus at the young age of 14. Good lord, woman, you just can't have a conversation without putting YOUR skewed version of religion into it, can you? "IF... THEN." We're not talking about what if. We're talking about a TWELVE YEAR OLD BOY who may have fathered this baby in a day and time when 12-year-olds have no business becoming fathers. Nor 14-year-olds becoming mothers either. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Daisalana 33 Posted February 17, 2009 I remember being shocked by the first article, then reading the follow up yesterday about all the other potential kid daddies. Could you imagine being the girl's parents? All these little boys are coming forward saying "Gee golly, I put my thingie in her thingie, maybe I'm the daddy!!" :tongue2: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
babygrl1234 6 Posted February 17, 2009 In the case of little Maisie....Alfie you are NOT the father. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BethFromVA 5 Posted February 17, 2009 Also, Patty, as far as Jesus' time and Mary being pregnant at 14, that was common because the average life expectancy wasn't much beyond the age of 40. It's all relative. If old age was 40's, then absolutely people were getting married and starting families in their teens. Today life expectancy is MUCH higher, so the expectancy of marriage and childbirth has also gone up. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BethFromVA 5 Posted February 17, 2009 O.K. Children here in the states have babies all the time. Gimme a break. If ya'll don't realize this then you need to wake up and smell the roses. I feel for the kids, but I am glad so many boys are stepping up to the plate and saying I might be the father. They are willing to try to take responsibility. Is it right she slept around...no. But she did. She now has a baby herself. Will I call her a tramp. no. I was sexually active at a very early age. I was sexually abused and fat. I wanted love. So that is how I tried to get love. I didn't get pregnant though until I was 18. So I feel blessed about that. I don't see why this was such a big news story. Not with the teenage pregnancy rate in the states and the world. And before anyone starts to critisize me on this, it is MY OPINION! not up for debate or arguments. Sorry, G4E, no disrespect intended. I have my own past myself. The tramp thing came about because we're talking 8-10 boys right now may have had sex with her at about the same time. I just can't get my mind around that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gone 4 ever 6 Posted February 17, 2009 Sorry, G4E, no disrespect intended. I have my own past myself. The tramp thing came about because we're talking 8-10 boys right now may have had sex with her at about the same time. I just can't get my mind around that. No need to apologize Beth. It wasn't aimed at you exactly. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kat817 19 Posted February 17, 2009 (edited) These boys all claim to have spent the night with the girl in her home, on the weekends. So seems to me, the parents had no issue with it, regardless what they say. Never once did any of the boys say they snuck around under the bleachers, or the back seat of a car-----seems like this was not uncommon for her to have boys around. Alfie kept a spare school uniform over there? Didn't Mom & Dad notice he spent more time with her than the brothers??? Times have changed patty. Our kids have so many more opportunities. Even the girls!!! And as has been pointed out countless times before on the other threads this always gets brought up in, the bible is an interpretation, and time/years are not necessarily viewed the same then as now. I mean how many 900 year old women do you see giving birth today??? Kat Edited February 17, 2009 by Kat817 spelling correction Share this post Link to post Share on other sites