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In 2009, there was a news event in United Kingdom that shook the whole country: a 13-year-old boy became a father and the child's mother was a 15-year-old girl.
They gave birth to a daughter.
Although both are only junior high school students, their attitudes towards children are surprisingly consistent: the girl is determined to give birth to the child, and the boy is determined to raise the child.
The girl is the mother of the child, but the 13-year-old boy is not the biological father of the daughter!
He's just being used by others as a cash cow.
13-year-old father
Most people have the impression that United Kingdom is a more open country than many other countries.
Openness has made it more inclusive, but it has also made it more problematic.
One of them is the precocious behavior of teenagers.
In the United Kingdom, it is not uncommon for young people under the age of 18 to secretly eat forbidden fruit.
On the contrary, among the adolescent group, it is very popular, although most people do not yet know what responsibility it means.
Due to the lack of relevant physiological education, the teenage pregnancy rate in the United Kingdom has long been among the highest in the world.
In 2006 alone, more than 40,000 teenage girls became pregnant in the United Kingdom.
Only a very small percentage of them will choose to have a child.
In United Kingdom history, the youngest recorded father appeared in 1998, when a 12-year-old boy and 15-year-old girl secretly ate forbidden fruit and became parents.
Excluding this 12-year-old father in the 20th century, Alfie is the youngest father in United Kingdom.
In 2008, when Alfie was 12 years old, he had sex with his 14-year-old girlfriend Xander.
Subsequently, Xander found out that she was pregnant and insisted on giving birth to the child.
On February 9, 2009, Xander gave birth to a baby girl.
At this time, Xandel was 15 years old and Alfie was 13 years old, and they were both still students in school.
Compared with Xander, Alfie is only 1.2 meters tall, and he is completely an out-and-out child.
After the child was born, her parents loved her very much, although the two of them may not know what father's love and mother's love are.
But Alfie has decided to take on his responsibilities by visiting his daughter, loving her, breastfeeding her, and taking many fatherly photos with his daughter.
Unlike the calm of the two parties, their families and the United Kingdom media, United Kingdom society, and even the United Kingdom Prime Minister have extremely unsettled attitudes towards the matter.
Since the United Kingdom media publicly reported on the incident on February 13, many have wanted to follow the follow-up of the incident.
Alfie's father and mother, who are divorced, believe that Alfie is simply not capable of raising a child, and he doesn't even know what that means.
At the end of the day, raising the baby is entirely the responsibility of both parents.
But soon, Alfie's parents discovered that there was a huge business opportunity in their son's trouble.
Paternity tests and cash cows
In 2009, a 13-year-old boy in United Kingdom became a father and raised his daughter for a year, only to learn of a collapse that the daughter was not her own, and she had eight other fathers.
Even the fact that he became a father was arranged by someone, everything was fake, only his parents and the girl's parents wanted to use him to make money.
On Alfie's side, it was his father who reacted first.
The media that reported the incident on 13 February 2009 was The Sun.
In order to be the first to cover the story, The Sun made a deal with Alfie's father to buy the story for $36,000 long before the baby was born.
Not to be outdone, Alfie's mother soon began to sell her son and granddaughter to the media at a clear price.
For this, the United Kingdom media are willing to pay, which is rare big news, and they can dig up many selling points.
Some estimate that 13-year-old Alfie was able to make a profit of $720,000 from the incident.
However, just as Alfie's parents were happily planning, the media dug up the news:
The child may not be Alfie's.
On February 18, The Independent reported that in addition to Alfie, there were eight other teenagers who could be the fathers of the children.
The child's mother, Xander, quickly admitted to the incident.
Everyone discovers that Cindell's life is even more chaotic than they imagined, and even her parents don't care about her at all.
On March 26, 2009, the Daily Mirror reported that after the paternity test results came out, Alfie was indeed not the father of the child, but another 15-year-old boy.
Soon after, there were media reports that Cindell's parents knew that the child's father might not be Alfie.
But they bite the 13-year-old boy.
It's just that among all the boyfriends of Xandro, Alfie is the youngest, and he can attract everyone's attention to the news and profit from it, and they are also laissez-faire for all the sexual acts of their daughter.
Because the Cinder's family is poor and depends on government handouts to survive.
The whole news also fell into the dust as the truth emerged little by little, and no one paid attention to it anymore.
Only Alfie, a 13-year-old father, was pushed into the screen for no reason, and fell out of the screen, only to understand that he had no children at all, and everyone just wanted to make money with themselves.
But it's one thing to understand, it's another thing to come out.
Since then, Alfie has been immersed in the affair and has never been able to come out of it.
What happened to Alfie now?
In 2014, five years after the original news farce, Alfie was approached by the media again to interview him about his current situation.
At this time, Alfie was 18 years old and had just reached adulthood.
In the past, whenever there was any news of early teenage pregnancy in United Kingdom, Alfie would be brought out as negative news and criticized by the public.
Although there is no longer jaw-dropping news on his body, Alfie has never been able to get out of the public's discussion and criticism.
He said that his life had been ruined by the news, and he would never be able to get out of the days when he was 13 years old.
Today, Alfie has no way to work, so he can only live on welfare payments.
In 2019, the 23-year-old Alfie was in the news again, and it was still negative news.
This time, Alfie was sentenced to 24 months of probation for stealing and other acts.
In the same year, Alfie was again sentenced to one month of probation for drunkenness.
Compared with the ignorant, innocent, and ignorant baby face at the age of 13, the 23-year-old Alfie has a gray and haggard face, as if there is no light in his life.
Although the original incident was just a man-made oolong, and Alfie did not become a father, the name of "Teenage Dad" will follow Alfie for the rest of his life and haunt him for the rest of his life.
As early as 2009, when the news first broke, the United Kingdom Prime Minister paid attention to the matter and severely condemned the behavior of early teenage pregnancy.
But United Kingdom, which has a lot of habits, wants to change its way and completely put an end to such incidents, which is not an overnight thing.
On the contrary, as society becomes more and more open, there is no guarantee that similar incidents will not happen again.
The Alfie incident is a profound lesson about the need for young people to be properly educated and disciplined.
At the same time, from Alfie's tragedy, in addition to society and school, we also see the importance of family education.
In the process of growing up teenagers, there will be many temptations and unexpected difficulties, which require the patient guidance and education of adults to keep them on the right track and avoid tragedies.
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Alfie · Parton: Can I Be a Good Father at 13, Qianjiang Evening News, February 23, 2009 05:10
British "Teenage Dad" Becomes "Money Cow" Leads to Moral Controversy, Xinhuanet, February 16, 2009
Pregnant 14-year-old girlfriend 13-year-old boy in United Kingdom about to become a father, City Evening News, October 26, 2009