Kids Giving Birth To Kids

In regards the depressing tale of thirteen year old Alfie Patten supposedly fathering a child with 15-year-old Chantelle Steadman, we now have a situation where it appears several teenagers have absolutely no fear at all of publicly anouncing that they have unlawfully shagged a 15 year old girl.

We have a law that nobody appears to have any interest in enforcing. We have schools giving out condoms to children so if they do break the law they will be supposedly 'safe'. Then if they do get pregnant they can have an abortion without the knowledge of their parents. WTF is all that about?

We could take this logic to another level. Assuming that some kids will at one point experiment with drugs, why not have schools give them a 'clean' stash so it's 'safe'? Of course if they accidently overdose we don't need to tell the parents.

Another thing about all this -

[quote]The implication of the rule is that anyone who has sex with a girl under 13 is committing what is termed "statutory rape". There is no defence to this charge - even if a boy says the girl was willing or that he thought she was older than she was, it would not matter.
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This law apparently only applies to boys having sex with girls under 13 but not vise versa, isn't that blatent discrimination against teenage boys?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/special_report/1999/02/99/e-cyclopedia/437789.stm

It appears to me that many teenagers want all the perks of adulthood (sex, booze etc) without any of the responsibilities.