As she proudly displays her pregnant bulge for the cameras, fifteen year old Soya Keaveney smiles indulgently despite the fact that she is indicative of the mess that society is in. Not that she cares, nor her mother, because that baby she is carrying will get her an income she will not be bothered about earning, or who has to pay for it. Her mother, Janis, is overjoyed at the prospect of what the new addition to her fractured family will bring…a new and bigger council house for them to live in. What kind of mother would be in any way happy or proud that her under-aged daughter was proudly displaying the result of her promiscuous behaviour for all the world to see…?

Soya - taxpayer funded irresponsibility.

Answer: the kind of mother who saw nothing wrong with her seven year daughter going out in public dressed in mini skirts and a face caked in makeup, dressing suggestively at the age of twelve and heading off to nightclubs, ‘modelling’ in bikini’s before she was thirteen – sleeping with her boyfriend under her own roof. There used to be a term for young girls like Soya – ‘jail bait’. That’s what men used to call them, they don’t any more because males no longer go to prison for indulging in sex with girls under the age of consent. Certainly the father of Soya’s baby, seventeen year old Jake Gray, wont be hauled before the courts for statutory rape even though it remains a criminal offence to do what he has done.

Soya and her pathetic irresponsible mother are examples of how badly the UK welfare system needs a complete shake up. The smug smiles need to be wiped from the faces of young girls like Soya Keaveny and there needs to be real consequences for parents like Janis Keaveny who allow and even encourage their children to behave so recklessly.Instead of despairing and wishing her child was planning to do her A levels she is looking forward to the rewards that her child’s brattish behaviour will bring her…or so she hopes. Benefits and a bigger council house for her brood to inhabit – at OUR expense. This has got to stop. Time to make young males like Jake Gray responsible for their behaviour – let HIM get a job – two, three jobs if need be – and support his under-aged girlfriend and HIS baby himself. We taxpayers have had enough of people like them, the system must be torn down and rebuilt so that girls like Soya are not rewarded for their disgraceful arrogance and mothers like Janis Keaveny no longer believe it is great to be a ‘cool’ mother by allowing their children to dress and behave like little tarts.

This child featured on an episode of Supernanny ‘Jo Frosts Extreme Parental Guidance’ two years ago at the age of thirteen, showing off her skimpy clubbing outfits to the camera and all under the indulgent eye of her mother. Clearly no parental guidance has been a feature of this girl’s life – and sadly the thoughts that went through my mind at the time have turned out to be true. If she is old enough to model her pregnant belly, she is old enough to feel the shame she deserves – and should – feel. But I doubt it.