This just breaks my heart. Three sisters, 12,14, and 16 have all had a baby in the last year. What does their mother have to say about it?
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.
How did this happen. How can three young girls have found themselves in this situation?
It happens EVERY DAY when young women, AND men, are not given the information they need, as young adults, to make better choices.
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.
Abstinence only education DOES NOT WORK. It's that simple. When you tell a young adult, with hormones raging, that abstinence is the only choice. They take that, walk out the door, and with one simple kiss, it's all gone.
You know how it worked. Your blood boils, you start to sweat, one more kiss and then one thing leads to another and when you do not have access to simple information, you don't know to wear a condom. You don't know to take precautions. All you know is that you failed the abstinence test, now what?
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."
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."
Teenage heartbreak is one thing. Teenage mothers are another. My thoughts are with these three girls as they learn how to be mothers at the same time they learn how to be women.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4572219.stm