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Sisters give birth at 12, 14, 16
BBC ^ | 05/23/2005 | BBC

Posted on 05/23/2005 12:04:01 PM PDT by Truthsayer20

Sisters give birth at 12, 14, 16

Three schoolgirl sisters have given birth aged 12, 14 and 16.

The Williams sisters, who live with their mother in a council house in Derby, feature in a BBC3 documentary called Desperate Midwives.

Natasha, the oldest, Jade and Jemma, the youngest, are reported to receive £600 a week in benefits.

Their mother Julie Atkins, 38, who said the girls were too young and had ruined their lives, blamed schools for providing poor quality sex education.

Mother defiant

Jemma was first to give birth, to T-Jay in February last year, and weeks later Jade and Natasha discovered they were pregnant.

Natasha had daughter Amani in November and Jade followed with Lita in December. The younger sisters are still at school.

Mrs Atkins told the Sunday Mercury: "I don't care what people say about me. I blame the schools - sex education for young girls should be better."

The sisters feature in the BBC3 series Desperate Midwives: The real truth about childbirth, starting from 9pm on Monday.

Episode seven follows a midwife from the Derby City hospital as she helps the family prepare for the third child.

No going back

Mrs Atkins told the Sun that she still found it difficult to believe what had happened.

"They are still little girls and now they have babies of their own," she said. "But I don't care what people say, I love my kids and I'm here to help them.

"If I could turn back the clock, I would prefer them not to have children. Their education is so important."

Two of the girls are no longer in contact with their children's fathers.

Jemma is quoted in the Sun as saying: "I only told my boyfriend David, who was 14 at the time, but I didn't want to have an abortion.

"He was my first love but now I'm gutted because he doesn't want to have anything to do with me or T-Jay."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: educationnews; momsboyfriend; sluts; students; teenpregnancy; welfarestate
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Let's see:

Natasha, the oldest, Jade and Jemma, the youngest, are reported to receive £600 a week in benefits.

1000 USD in benefits? Talk about subsidizing irresponsible behavior.

Mrs Atkins told the Sunday Mercury: "I don't care what people say about me. I blame the schools - sex education for young girls should be better."

That's right. It's the school's fault that you are not able to keep you daughters under control.

T-Jay, Amani and Lita

No comment.

Two of the girls are no longer in contact with their children's fathers.

There's a big suprise.

1 posted on 05/23/2005 12:04:03 PM PDT by Truthsayer20
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To: Truthsayer20
They are married to the Government.
They have to find their sex elsewhere.
Only the tax payers have sex with the government, they get scr_wed.
2 posted on 05/23/2005 12:07:04 PM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ("In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit." AYN RAND)
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To: Truthsayer20

I'm just happy none of them "decided" to have an abortion, that is probably more irresponsible than bringing the babies to term.


3 posted on 05/23/2005 12:07:08 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (Don't hate me because I'm a player)
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To: Truthsayer20

12, 14, 16, 18,
The Williams sisters aren't waiting...


4 posted on 05/23/2005 12:08:10 PM PDT by mikrofon (Rhythm Method)
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To: Truthsayer20
Two of the girls are no longer in contact with their children's fathers.

Remove the Father and Big-Brother takes over.

5 posted on 05/23/2005 12:08:16 PM PDT by The SISU kid (Defiantly coloring outside the lines since 1964)
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To: Truthsayer20

Somewhere I read that the UK has a big problem with very young girls having babies.


6 posted on 05/23/2005 12:10:53 PM PDT by A Ruckus of Dogs
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To: Truthsayer20
T-Jay? T-JAY???? What the...?

Oh, and isn't it quaint how the school gets blamed. Hey mom, try a little PARENTING, YOU IDIOT!

7 posted on 05/23/2005 12:11:19 PM PDT by Romish_Papist (The times are out of step with the Catholic Church. God Bless Pope Benedict XVI.)
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To: Truthsayer20

***...I'm here to help them.***

"Well, sure..." she went on to say, "... I may not have 'been there' for them then, when they needed my help, but now, now I'm really here."

Mrs Atkins, last seen headed to the bank with her youngest daughter, was heard to say, "Oh yes, I'm really here to help them now...".


8 posted on 05/23/2005 12:12:50 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: Truthsayer20
Coming soon to a US city near you...
9 posted on 05/23/2005 12:14:05 PM PDT by raivyn (ATTENTION: My /sarcasm is broken - please don't take ANYTHING I say personally!)
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To: A Ruckus of Dogs

They have had this problem for a long time. The govt. subsidies are fantastic. They will pay for your apartment and give you money for food & bills. It is free ride. I used to date a man from London & his sister got preganant at 16 so she could move out & get away from the mom (the dad had left them years before). The cycle continues.


10 posted on 05/23/2005 12:15:06 PM PDT by Feiny ( I hate the very sight of liquor, which is why I hide it in my stomach.)
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To: Truthsayer20

Natasha, Jemma and Jade Williams
with children Amani, T-Jay and Lita

11 posted on 05/23/2005 12:15:22 PM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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To: feinswinesuksass

Damn, I should learn to type. Apologies for my typos!!!


12 posted on 05/23/2005 12:15:48 PM PDT by Feiny ( I hate the very sight of liquor, which is why I hide it in my stomach.)
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To: Truthsayer20
Their mother Julie Atkins, 38, who said the girls were too young and had ruined their lives, blamed schools for providing poor quality sex education.

Nope, nothing to do with poor parenting.

13 posted on 05/23/2005 12:15:49 PM PDT by RockinRight (Conservatism is common sense, liberalism is just senseless.)
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To: Truthsayer20

The mother is a product of life long socialist indoctrination...this is what happens when nanny-state socialism infects society.

Did you see the pic of the girls? They look so much older then their ages! (and they are all overweight)


14 posted on 05/23/2005 12:15:50 PM PDT by FeliciaCat (I like my money where I can see it...hanging in my closet.)
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To: Truthsayer20
Very, very sad. Why was only the mother quoted? Where is the girl's father?

How sad is it that the girl's mother blames the school. Who is the parent? Who is responsible for the values and education of their children? The gubmint'?

One can almost understand one of these girls becoming pregnant as a mistake in personal judgment, but all three girls! Girls who are 16, 14, and 12? This is more than a lapse in personal judgment, or somehow the fault of the school. I would be curious to see the bacjkground of this "mother" explored a bit more in detail.
15 posted on 05/23/2005 12:15:55 PM PDT by Obadiah
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To: Truthsayer20
Two of the girls are no longer in contact with their children's fathers.

That never happens!

16 posted on 05/23/2005 12:15:58 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity (Proud infidel since 1970.)
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To: The SISU kid
Exactly.

"Their mother Julie Atkins, 38 ..., blamed schools for providing poor quality sex education."

Somewhere Howard and Hilly are licking their lips at the thought that the thought that American voters will become that stupid.

17 posted on 05/23/2005 12:16:10 PM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: A.A. Cunningham

Dumb, dumber and dumberer.


18 posted on 05/23/2005 12:16:52 PM PDT by BenLurkin (O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
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To: TattooedUSAFConservative

Poor kid. That's what happens when your mother is a 12 year old and gets to name you.


19 posted on 05/23/2005 12:17:23 PM PDT by RockinRight (Conservatism is common sense, liberalism is just senseless.)
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To: Truthsayer20
Mrs Atkins told the Sunday Mercury: "I don't care what people say about me. I blame the schools - sex education for young girls should be better."

Sounds to me like sex ed did what it was supposed to do: Taught the little skeezers how to do the deed. If she didn't want them screwing around, she should have kept a tighter rein on them. Sounds like a mother from the north side of a city I know only too well....

20 posted on 05/23/2005 12:18:01 PM PDT by Bombardier (Let 'er buck!)
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