The incident of British 13-year-old teenager Alfie Patten becoming the world's youngest father has caused a great stir.正当人们纷纷指责 the young parents for profiting from the scandal, the media revealed doubts about the event being a scam. It was reported that an intimate friend of Chantel's parents disclosed that Penny, Chantel's mother, ordered her daughter to claim that Patten was the baby's father and not to mention any other boyfriend, so that the "story" would be more attractive, allowing Penny to sell the story to the media for a higher price.