I can remember watching Dixon of Dock Green in the late fifties, when I was about ten years old. One episode was about a fourteen year old girl who had become pregnant. Even as a ten year old, I was just as shocked as PC Dixon even though I was very innocent and probably didn't have much idea how it happened, something to do with cabbage plants I seem to remember my mum telling me. Then came the Sixties and the sexual revolution. Half a century on, I suspect that a lot of fourteen year old girls lead a very active sex life and it is blinkered to pretend otherwise.
Put yourself in the position of a spotty eighteen year old boy in a disco late at night, plastered to the eyeballs, can't believe his luck when he pulls this gorgeous apparition dolled up to look at least his age. Somehow neglects to check her I.D., passport, gas bill, whatever, and gets treated to a wham-bam-thankyou-mam kneetrembler in the doorway of McDonalds. Wakes up in the morning with a thumping hangover wondering where he was last night.
Some time later she discovers she is pregnant, proud father one of many possibilities. What to tell mum and dad? Finger said spotty youth and say she was led astray. Turn up in court in school uniform and pigtails. Spotty youth blacklisted for life as a sex offender. This is the other side of the coin and a world away from predatory paedophiles.
"Evening all"
