If you saw The Sun last Friday while picking up your weekly Diss Express, I am sure you will have been shocked at the photograph of a little boy holding his baby daughter.
Alfie Patten, 13 – but looking more like he's eight – had fathered a child with a 15-year-old.
The Sun, in breaking the story, also wheeled out columnist Jane Moore, who spoke with particular outrage and venom about what it said about our society.
"When boys as emotionally and physically child-like as Alfie start creating babies, it's the thin end of the wedge that will break the existing cracks in society so wide open that there'll be no hope of repair," she commented.
There is no doubt that if boys as young as Alfie routinely become fathers, the social effects would be grave.
But the story's wider moral issue is not clear – is it sex education in schools? Is it poor parenting?
Obviously people are rightly concerned about teenage pregnancy.
But late last year, an Ipsos MORI poll found people massively over-estimated the teenage pregnancy problem in the UK, with just five per cent knowing the actual rate.
The most up-to-date Office of National Statistics figures for England show under-18 conception rates in 2006 were at their lowest for 20 years.
Ms Moore described the story as a damning indictment of sex education in schools, but does a 13.3 per cent drop in under-18 conception rates in nine years represent her "thin end of the wedge"?
Is Alfie representative of our nation's decline morally or is his case actually incredibly rare?
Well, Britain has the highest teenage pregnancy rates in Western Europe and considering we have the second largest economy, it's not something to be proud of.
But to make a 13-year-old the cherubic face of all that is wrong with kids today is perhaps too simplistic and too convenient.
