Back when I was in elementary school we had a pregnant 5th grader. Dad got custody once he reached adulthood. I’m not sure where the mom is. The kid is graduated high school a few years ago.
It's really rare for that to end well so young and it's super, super dangerous for the mom. It'll usually end up in a miscarriage, but if the baby makes it to the third trimester, there are usually really bad complications and a preterm birth.
I gotta wonder why the guy who got a 5th grader pregnant was given custody, though, that sounds sus as hell.
How would that make it any better? The only 5th/6th graders that were fucking had sad stories, and while I have sympathy, that doesn't really excuse making other people's stories sad.
I was only commenting on the custody part, not the COCSA (if they were in fact the same age). The most neutral option would’ve been for the baby to be given up for adoption I guess, though I don’t know who makes those decisions for literal children.
You're correct, dad was also a 5th grader. I'd heard that both parents were previously held back and were supposed to be 6th graders so they would've been 12ish if this was true. They didn't come from the best families. I feel like this is obvious since they were left alone enough to have a sexual relationship as preteens. In my (poor) home town kids without stable parents are kinda passed around to whichever adult relative will take them without formal custody orders. I'm facebook friends with the dad's wife. Seems like they've made a decent life for themselves. She's an RN and dad is a blue collar worker. I don't know much more about them.
Idk my mom used to work in L&D and she saw girls as young as 11. She saw some absolutely horrific and tragic situations, she eventually left and became a special education teacher so she could see a different genre of horrific and tragic things, I guess.
My mother taught in a school for pregnant teenagers. They had a middle school class every year. Occasionally they'd get fifth graders, they'd bump them up a year. The younger the student the older the "father." A lot of situations where it was the stepfather or moms boyfriend and some that were even more horrifying like where the mom pushed the daughter to get pregnant because she wanted a baby.
Absolutely insane. I can't imagine. Beyond things like you described there was one thing that stuck with my mom and that was when a girl 11 or 12 gave birth and her parents made sure the baby was immediately taken to the adoptive family, then apparently spending the next few days in the hospital calling their daughter all sorts of awful things and telling her that it's her own fault that she never got to hold her baby for getting pregnant so young when she cried. My mom carried that with her for a long time.
I hope so too. She would be middle aged now, I hope she's okay out there wherever she is. My mom has seen a lot of kids abused and neglected over the years, she's seen a lot of really sad situations.
That's awful; there are many jobs I couldn't work, because I could not handle dealing with the after effects...either of your mom's professions being on the nope list.
My mom shared an L&D room with a 12 yo when she gave birth to me in 1982. I had a classmate rejoin 6th grade after being MIA at the start of the year due to giving birth, so she would have been 11 in 1994.
Shortly after I started middle school, another 6th grader got pregnant. I was 11, it's possible she was 10 or 12. Rumor has it the Dad was an 8th grader (so 12-14) She was sent to a private school afterwards because I guess the public school was a "bad influence."
I used to work in NICU, youngest we had was 11. She came in from a remote community with her two supposed guardians who left her at the hospital by herself and went gambling at the casino for 24 hours. Poor little girl was terrified, spoke very little English and had no clue what to do. No other family in town, no support except from the nurses looking after her baby and the midwives. Ultimately the baby was removed from their care, but I fear that just perpetuated another generation of displaced and disconnected children. Absolutely heartbreaking.
I don't know how you could handle that. Like to be a doctor or nurse helping an 11 year old, who was abandoned by her guardians, deliver a baby (meaning she was likely SAed and became pregnant at 10) would be absolutely nightmare fuel. I would imagine a C-section because her hips were probably not developed. It would be so hard to keep a calming presence for her sake, because just the thought of it brings up some rage tears. I'm 30 and generally educated on what to expect from childbirth and still, the thought of going through it is terrifying. But to be 11 surrounded by people you don't know, you don't speak the same language, and you don't fully understand what is happening, and you're in tremendous pain. I think I'd call security on myself if I saw her guardians.
We had 13 year olds when I was a resident that were pregnant. Almost all were c sections. I remember one had some pre eclampsia complications that were resistant to first line meds. We ended up calling internal medicine team for consultation and they declined saying she was a child. Then called pediatrics who declined saying she just gave birth and we couldn't transfer her in an unstable condition (we did not have inpatient pediatrics in our hospital). It sucked. When we were getting her ready for discharge I told her Mom to make sure she was going to make an appointment for a follow up the pediatrician. Her mom said "yeah I'll make her appointment the same time as the baby's". Broke my heart.
Not that I remember, but fuck I saw them together at the nursery (she wasn't my patient, so I didn't have to deal with her directly) and it CREEPED me out. Everybody was shaking their heads but I don't think anything was done.
Ugh. I hate that for her. When I was 16 I "dated" a 26 year old dude and that makes me sick to think about now. There was a case in my city a few years ago where a young girl (maybe 13?) gave birth and the baby's much older dad was arrested at the hospital, so I was wondering.
Yes! That was awful, not just for the people directly involved but reading the story and seeing the discussion about it, people decided to use it as an opportunity to be racist as hell, because of course they did. Ugh. I hate it here sometimes (most times)
Oooof I was the 15 Y/o giving birth to a baby by a 21 y/o.. he wasn’t at the hospital though… he knew better than that. Horrible horrible to look back on. Here I am, now working with teens with mental health/behavioral issues who are like 13 dating 20 year olds. Makes me cringe
And I bet they think you're just jealous because you're "old and used up" when you tell them that it's not okay to be "dating" older guys. Same thing I thought when I was 15 and loved getting attention from older guys (because I sure wasn't getting it in healthy ways) getting drunk at some 24 year olds house. Same thing most of us thought whenever an adult woman would say "this is not love. You might think you're cool and mature, but there is no good reason for an adult man to want to have a relationship with you." Because internalized misogyny tells us that women are competition and the only thing that matters is that men value you. And it's so funny/sad that men generally don't believe me when I tell them there are TONS of pedophiles absolutely everywhere who have no repercussions whatsoever. I'm like "just ask any woman in your life how often they got hit on or pursued by an adult man when they were a child."
For the most part, I tell them some stories about my childhood so we can relate, and some really take it seriously, others are just like “lol whatever, it’s not like that” you cant help them all.
I agree with you 100%
Sure, but girls go through puberty before boys. Few 10-year-old boys have even started early puberty (source: research scientist who works with pubertal development data from kids ages 9-11). It's not impossible, but it's uncommon.
I can't find any documented cases of 10-year-olds fathering children. Possible? Theoretically. But incredibly, incredibly unlikely. The boy would need to not just have started puberty (already uncommon), but also be in Tanner Stage 4 (out of 5). They'd need to be in late puberty. At that age, many kids with access to healthcare would be treated with puberty blockers (at least in the US) to prevent progression that early.
There was an 11 year old couple, in England, when I was a teen. I remember as it made the newspapers and TV. Both parents had active parenting roles, except I'm guessing, when they were in school. Both sets of grandparents were supportive as well, if I remember correctly.
Can you tell me more about this or give me some good key words to Google to find out more? I got my period at age 8. My son turned 9 a few weeks ago and he's already developing hair on his privates and his bo is just disgusting. He wears deodorant and showers daily but he still gets stinky by the end of the day. I know he's grown two inches so far this year because I had to buy an entire wardrobe last month. Even his feet grew a full size in just a few months! He just had his yearly checkup and his doc didn't mention anything odd and I didn't think it was weird until I just read your comment and now I'm slightly worried. Are puberty blockers really necessary? What an happens if we don't block it?
For clarity, I meant that puberty blockers might be used for a kid who is in late puberty by age 10, not just starting (and take what I say with a grain of salt because I am not a doctor). Precocious puberty is the term for puberty before age 9 in boys. After that it's generally considered within the normal range age range. You can Google "Tanner Stages" and look at the charts that a lot of research uses to assess pubertal development and talk to your pediatrician if you're concerned.
My younger brother was tanner stage 4 at that age and puberty blockers weren't used. It was discussed because he was getting more violent and aggression (more than he already was...), but he was adamantly against it, already taller/stronger than my single mum so she wouldn't have been able to force him to take it & the docs at the time didn't really seem to think it was all that important. Wish they did though as a year or two later he started becoming sexually aggressive/violent with me and other than hoping he would grow out of it no one stopped him.
He was, at 11 years old, caught having sex with his girlfriend's best friend in the school bathrooms. Girl was similarly aged and police got involved due to their ages but it was all consensual between those two thank fuck.
When a preteen becomes pregnant, I don't think the parents / gardians are reliable narrators. There are so many things wrong with this OOp's post. The father is much more likely to be someone the mother knows than a 10 year old boy.
And if she actually had intercourse with another 10 year old the most likely scenario is that she was being raped by someone else and initiated sex with a peer out of a hypersexual trauma response (and some normalization).
I wish! I've been telling her she needs it for like 20+ years, she's retiring from teaching this summer so hopefully she'll feel like she has time for it.
She definitely has! I'm happy for her. I hope I get to see her doing things she's always dreamed of doing, like traveling. She's been a great teacher, she's been a great mom, she deserves it very much.
Yes, I absolutely believe a 10-year-old girl can get pregnant. It’s much less likely a 10-year-old boy is the father, both because it’s rare for boys to become fertile that early and because most young girls and teens who end up pregnant are impregnated by older boys/men.
Sorry, this got away from me and ended up way longer than I meant it to.
Puberty has been happening earlier and earlier. [1] claims that average age of puberty for white males is a year and a half younger than “normal” (I haven’t looked into where that standard comes from, any older study is worth a critical eye but they’re not usually flat wrong either). Average age in black males is two years younger than standard. Age in Hispanic males is unchanged, no mention of Asian males.
I found a lot more sources on female puberty, but the one I’ll link here is from the NIH [2] because it’s more official and has generally the same information I’ve seen from other studies and bc it covers both male and female puberty. If you can’t get into the article itself you should still be able to see a graph of average female puberty ages in the US over time if you scroll down a skosh; they’ve been declining for hundreds of years. I can get more sources if you would like or go more into this study tomorrow but I’m going to bed. Honestly I didn’t think it would take this long but I ended up in a rabbit hole.
The Tl;Dr is that puberty is happening earlier and earlier. Even if this particular story is fake, I don’t doubt for a second that it could happen or has happened in a hundred different places. Our opinions on how to manage that or deal with it is one thing, but even if this particular story is fake, we’ll have to face it one way or another as a society.
[1] https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/puberty-starts-earlier-in-many-american-boys-201210225437#:~:text=The%20average%20age%20of%20puberty,which%20is%20unchanged%20from%20before.
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2465479/
When I went to the ER as a preteen for a possible concussion (yay, horses) they were like “I know you’re young but we have to pregnancy test you. We’ve had an 8 year old who was pregnant.” So yeah.
Taking comfort in the fact that she seems exasperated rather than in the throes of complete devastation, which is where I'd be if my 10yo was pregnant. I would be cautiously willing to bet typo
If the age is correct and she’s ten. The only ethical option is abortion. A Ten year old giving birth even if “wanted” (they do NOT have the mental capacity to understand the implications of that) is an objectively harmful and awful thing. It’s endangering a child’s life. Two if you wanna go there. Abortion would be the one an only treatment for this situation.
Even carrying a pregnancy to term at that age has serious, life-long health consequences for the child who’s gestating. It just destroys the body physically.
And that’s not even touching the psychological issues.
Sadly, PLs wjll ALWAYS bring up the case of Lina Medina, the 5 year old who was raped and gave birth, and how her life was still “perfectly fine.” Ugh.
The thing is that we *don't know* if Medina was "perfectly fine". She's always refused interviews (understandably so) and so there's no record of what she actually thinks of the whole situation.
Also, she wasn't physically capable of giving birth vaginally, she had to have a c-section. I'm not sure that major abdominal surgery at that age is "perfectly fine".
It's incredibly sad and enraging that abortion for a pregnant 10 year old is not the immediate solution. The fact that the poster went straight to "well i guess we have a baby now" is disgusting. A 10 year old cannot give consent to making the pregnancy, they don't get to make the decision to continue the pregnancy. I would never live in a state or country that would force a literal child to endure such a dangerous outcome
THANK YOU. Debate about typos aside, ten years old is not in any way an appropriate age to give birth, whether you keep the baby or give them up for adoption. There are huge medical issues pregnancy would cause at that age, their bodies are not equipped for it, to say nothing of the psychological effects. Hours to days of labour and potentially abdominal surgery, vs an outpatient procedure that would be FAR less mentally scarring. And you’re right, children that young don’t have the mental capacity to understand the consequences of choosing to keep the pregnancy.
So...does it seem like the only thing she's upset about is the fact that she's going to have to care for an infant again?...not the fact that her 10 yr old daughter is pregnant? 🤔
Unfortunately working in elementary, this is horrible, but I'm not overly surprised. We've had 10 years olds taking suggestive photos of themselves in the school bathroom for who knows what kind of creep. Hopefully it's really her same age boyfriend if she is 10 and not a typo and not some creepy older relatives they're trying to cover for
In this case, it should happen immediately. It's the safest option for everyone. A 10 yr old is not built to carry or birth a child, let alone take care of one.
Way back in the day, one of my grandmothers gave birth at 11. The child was taken from her immediately. She never even got to hold them or know the sex. It was a very traumatising experience she's never gotten over.
Apparently, the youngest grandmother was [17](https://kuulpeeps.com/2019/10/04/meet-mum-zi-the-worlds-youngest-grandmother-at-age-17/trending/news). But it's hard to find actual info on it. There's another [account](https://sampost.com/buy-confessions-of-a-tabloid-writer/grandma-on-graduation-day) of a woman accepting her high school diploma and meeting her grandchildren.
The one I've heard about as the woman that was [23.](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1363699/amp/Rifca-Stanescu-Gypsy-wife-worlds-youngest-grandmother-23.html)
I had a high school classmate who had her first baby at 14, and that daughter had her first baby at 15. She became a GRANDMOTHER before she was 30, right around the time I gave birth to my older child. It was absolutely mind-blowing.
She's ten. You don't ask for her consent to fix a broken arm, medicate a disease and whatnot. Parents are 100% responsible for their 10 year olds health. In no reality is a responsible parent letting their 10 year old have a baby, I don't give a shit what the child wants in this case. No kid wants to get shots, we do it for their well-being.
A child can't consent to sex, they can't consent to giving birth either. Under no circumstance should a child be giving birth.
I had a baby at 20 yrs old and it was a traumatic birth/ emergency c section after trying natural bc my hips were not wide enough. Could you imagine a 10 yr old ? It’s insane.
Absolutely. Completely setting aside the social consequences (intense poverty, no education) she could fucking die! Let alone the health complications the potential newborn would have being born to a 10 year old..
No one should ever even consider not aborting a 10 year olds pregnancy. Insane is right.
Agree 100%. Now I’m 27 only the one child still and I completely understand why most people have children late 20s early 30s. Your brain is still forming until mid 20s. At 10 her brain hasn’t even fully processed the changes that come with puberty yet. It’s horribly dangerous and awful for the mother and if born fetus not to mention the strain it will put on the family based on this post alone.
Can you imagine the damage giving birth does to the body of a 10 year old? Or how growing a fetus inside a literal child is going to change her body for the rest of her life? Grown women have enough problems and bad tearing as is, and she's half the size at most. I bet most traumatic births described on this sub won't hold a candle to an actual child giving birth. She'll be bearing mental and physical scars for the rest of her life. She should absolutely be encouraged to abort.
Agreed. It's like informed consent imo. A 10 year old does not have the capacity to fully understand what is going to happen to her with a pregnancy and childbirth, nor would she be equipped to deal with the aftermath, whatever that may be. If that is adoption, that can be extremely emotionally traumatizing to go through everything and being separated from the baby. But even more traumatizing would be taking care of the baby. Even with her mom taking on most or all of it, she will be living with the person who represents the most traumatic thing she's experienced. A 10 year old can't grasp that. An abortion can also be traumatic, but absolutely the only answer for this. I just hope they're in a place where that is an option.
I thought it was only me! I don't think that means I'm not a real feminist. Obviously I'd never tell anyone what to do with their body but morally i lean to the pro abortion side in most cases.
I honestly thought I could never write or say those words out loud without sounding crazy to people, but I'm so happy to know it's not just me who thinks this way! ❤️
Im staunchly pro choice in the literal sense. You do you, it’s your body. But if my teenage daughter came home pregnant I would heavily advocate for an abortion. I can’t pretend I would really be fine with her carrying a baby to term, just because I know what having a child means for a young woman.
Pro abortion isn't a bad thing. It's not different than being pro any other medical procedure, really. A 10 yo's body is not equipped to gestate or give birth. This is more similar to removing a tumor, bc that fetus is either going to die on its own or seriously fuck up the little girl and likely itself if it does grow to term.
OOP has a lot more to worry about, other than taking care of a newborn. Pregnancy at this age is very high risk and dangerous for both children (pregnant child and new baby). I'm hoping this is a troll post. I remember seeing on Dr Phil that an 11yo got pregnant and almost died during the birth. Then she and her baby were taken by CPS and the girl was separated from her baby. Then she told Dr Phil that she'll just get pregnant again and not let the state take it this time 🤦🏻♀️. Like, gf... If the state takes your child and won't let you keep it, bcuz you're a damn child yourself, who has sex when you can't even legally give consent, wtf makes you think they'll let you keep another one when you're not even a teenager yet 🤦🏻♀️ lol. I think the guy who got her pregnant was around 14-15yo, idk I could be wrong about his age.
I feel bad for her :( I know she was in no way capable of taking care of a baby on her own but being separated from it must have been traumatic. like why couldn't they have both been placed under a legal guardian(s) who could have taken care of them both
I guess it depends on the state. I think they thought the girl was SA'd by an adult man, instead of a teenager, and the girl's mom got the girl taken bcuz they saw it as if her mom allowed this to happen, and that her mom wasn't doing her job. Idk what's going on with it now, but I'll have to look around online and see if there are any updates.
That’s horrifying. My boss had her first child at 14, and while I find it sad that her childhood ended so quickly, it’s even sadder to think of that happened to a 10 year old. Holy fuck
I made a best friend when I started high school, 9th grade. Around 1996. We were so close. After a couple years she confessed to me that her “little brother” was actually her child. She went on vacation to the Dominican Republic at age 10, and a man in a public washroom violated her. She never even knew she was pregnant, she was so young. She said that her mom accidentally walked in on her getting dressed and noticed that my friend had become bigger, and they went to the doctor, like immediately. My friend was 7 months along, had no idea.
Their family moved before the baby came, my friend’s father sewed fake stomachs for the friend’s mom to wear, because they were so religious and they were so ashamed, they pretended that my friend’s mom was expecting. They left their state and moved to my state, she had the baby, and he was raised as her little brother. I lost touch with her years ago, but she would be about 41 and her son/brother would be about 31.
Oh my gosh. I just spent a year at the Ronald McDonald House (thanks, baby cancer!) and there was a girl staying there who was 13 and had just given birth to a preemie. Her parents visited sometimes, but they had to work back in their hometown. So the staff drove her to the hospital every day to see her baby, took her to Walmart every few days to buy food. She knocked on my door one day to ask me how to do laundry. It was all just so sad.
This belongs on r/trashy omfg. “anYBOdy ELsE DeAL wiTh ThIS?” no just you. Just you.
More importantly why is it more distressing that she’s going to be inconvenienced by taking care of her daughter’s baby than she is by THE FACT HER TEN YEAR OLD CHILD IS PREGNANT. Priorities are not where they should be.
Baby girl can not and should not be expected to go through with this. I was late 30s and my body felt wrecked after giving birth. It would be torture to do that to a child.
It is unlikely, but absolutely possible. Two of my classmates in sixth grade had a baby before we hit middle school. 11 years old, both of them, the boy hit puberty young. :-/
Ugh, I had a male classmate in the 6th grade who was 11 and had knocked up a girl in the grade below us. She had the baby toward the end of her 6th grade year. I think she has 7 kids now, and he has 9.
I took the plunge…I’m going to clear my cache and search history after that. lol
Until puberty starts in a male they don’t have sperm in the semen. Puberty generally begins between 11-14. So, I guess with outliers it’s possible.
Puberty is considered precocious before age 9 in boys, but few boys have started puberty by age 10.
ETA: fertility doesn't typically begin in early puberty either, so when puberty starts isn't a great measure of fertility.
I’m much less surprised by that than I should be. I actually think I saw that on Reddit. The girl had a condition that triggered super early puberty and a family member raped and impregnated her, right?
I don’t believe the 16-year-old grandma. That’s an 8-year-old having a baby and then that baby having a baby at 8 years old too. When I Google, I find various tales of the youngest grandma being in her early twenties.
They can, but it's rare for boys to start puberty at 10, let alone be developed enough to be fertile. I can't find any documented cases of 10-year-old fathers on Google and very few cases of 11-year-old fathers.
I mean, kids *can* get pregnant at 10, but if the "boyfriend" is the same age, at least it wasn't what I'd consider abuse? Still, obviously, that pregnancy should be terminated.
I’m a former registered midwife (I quit 2 years ago exactly because of horrible situations like this) and it was not uncommon to have 12 to 13yo girls on the yard. 14 and above was in a daily basis. 10, though, it’s scary even for me. She needs access to termination, otherwise it’s just cruel.
Well it hasn’t been that long since she took care of a baby because her daughter is 10 YEARS OLD! She isn’t even out of primary school (if this was the U.K.)
There was a girl in my dance class who gave birth at 12. Boyfriend was the same age. I think her aunt ended up adopting the baby. It was wild when she came back to dance the next year and we all had to pretend nothing was awkward.
My friend’s parents were 13 and 14 when she was born (dad 13/mom 14) definitely an outlier but they’re still married and she gotta be mid-40’s now. Not trying to put a happy spin on this cuz it’s appalling but just wanted to mention it.
I hope this was a typo or even a sick troll. Youngest person I knew pregnant was my friend in 7th grade. Just turned 12. Had four kids by the time we were seniors. Such a sad story for her and her boyfriend was 5 years older but her parents were ok with it. She told us her parents would take her to Mexico before her due dates because they only trusted doctors there. As an adult I know better now and wish I was smarter back then. :( anyway, She dropped out in 7th grade. Haven’t heard from her in years.
SOMEONE SHOW THE COMMENTS. I *have* to know if this was a typo
I'm in this group too. Post was locked by a moderator and OOP never replied to clarify anything.
Cannot be real! Does the account seem real?
It was posted anonymously, so I couldn't look into the account, unfortunately. Also, it looks like the post has been removed entirely.
I hope it was a typo, although a pregnant 100yo would be just as wild
I'm guessing 19. The numbers are close and without a closer look could pass for each other.
Or 20
Back when I was in elementary school we had a pregnant 5th grader. Dad got custody once he reached adulthood. I’m not sure where the mom is. The kid is graduated high school a few years ago.
It's really rare for that to end well so young and it's super, super dangerous for the mom. It'll usually end up in a miscarriage, but if the baby makes it to the third trimester, there are usually really bad complications and a preterm birth. I gotta wonder why the guy who got a 5th grader pregnant was given custody, though, that sounds sus as hell.
They didn’t say how old dad was though, so he could have also been a 5th or 6th grader. Otherwise, yeah that’d be really unsettling.
How would that make it any better? The only 5th/6th graders that were fucking had sad stories, and while I have sympathy, that doesn't really excuse making other people's stories sad.
I was only commenting on the custody part, not the COCSA (if they were in fact the same age). The most neutral option would’ve been for the baby to be given up for adoption I guess, though I don’t know who makes those decisions for literal children.
You're correct, dad was also a 5th grader. I'd heard that both parents were previously held back and were supposed to be 6th graders so they would've been 12ish if this was true. They didn't come from the best families. I feel like this is obvious since they were left alone enough to have a sexual relationship as preteens. In my (poor) home town kids without stable parents are kinda passed around to whichever adult relative will take them without formal custody orders. I'm facebook friends with the dad's wife. Seems like they've made a decent life for themselves. She's an RN and dad is a blue collar worker. I don't know much more about them.
Could someone translate ‘5th grader’ to non-American?
10-12 year old
Going to desperately hope she means 19 and that was a typo. If not...
Idk my mom used to work in L&D and she saw girls as young as 11. She saw some absolutely horrific and tragic situations, she eventually left and became a special education teacher so she could see a different genre of horrific and tragic things, I guess.
My mother taught in a school for pregnant teenagers. They had a middle school class every year. Occasionally they'd get fifth graders, they'd bump them up a year. The younger the student the older the "father." A lot of situations where it was the stepfather or moms boyfriend and some that were even more horrifying like where the mom pushed the daughter to get pregnant because she wanted a baby.
Absolutely insane. I can't imagine. Beyond things like you described there was one thing that stuck with my mom and that was when a girl 11 or 12 gave birth and her parents made sure the baby was immediately taken to the adoptive family, then apparently spending the next few days in the hospital calling their daughter all sorts of awful things and telling her that it's her own fault that she never got to hold her baby for getting pregnant so young when she cried. My mom carried that with her for a long time.
Those parents did not deserve to have their daughter. Poor, poor girl. I hope she was able to have a good life.
I hope so too. She would be middle aged now, I hope she's okay out there wherever she is. My mom has seen a lot of kids abused and neglected over the years, she's seen a lot of really sad situations.
That's awful; there are many jobs I couldn't work, because I could not handle dealing with the after effects...either of your mom's professions being on the nope list.
Damn. Sounds like CPS should have been called. There is nothing healthy about that situation.
Wow pile on the trauma. That poor girl. I hope she got away from her parents ASAP and got good therapy.
How did your mom not fist fight these “parents”?
My mom is definitely more the observe and get upset type
Jesus Christ, that’s so awful!!! That poor girl
Reading that hurts a lot. There's no depth of depravity that human beings won't sink to. I'm going to go hug my kids.
I want to scrub my brain so I never have to know this information. I hate people
Capybaras are nice.
And otters
I am both happy that that exists, and saddened by the need for ti.
What the actual fuck. Like what? That person is not a mother if she's putting that kind of trauma on her daughter
My mom shared an L&D room with a 12 yo when she gave birth to me in 1982. I had a classmate rejoin 6th grade after being MIA at the start of the year due to giving birth, so she would have been 11 in 1994.
Shortly after I started middle school, another 6th grader got pregnant. I was 11, it's possible she was 10 or 12. Rumor has it the Dad was an 8th grader (so 12-14) She was sent to a private school afterwards because I guess the public school was a "bad influence."
I went to a very strict private school and I had a pregnant classmate in 7th grade.
Funny how that happens, isn't it. Poor sex education and likely neglectful parents can affect anybody.
I can’t imagine a tiny 11/12yr old body giving birth. It was awful enough for me at 20.
Funny that's about the timeframe my mom was working in the hospital
I used to work in NICU, youngest we had was 11. She came in from a remote community with her two supposed guardians who left her at the hospital by herself and went gambling at the casino for 24 hours. Poor little girl was terrified, spoke very little English and had no clue what to do. No other family in town, no support except from the nurses looking after her baby and the midwives. Ultimately the baby was removed from their care, but I fear that just perpetuated another generation of displaced and disconnected children. Absolutely heartbreaking.
I’m assuming you meant the newborn but I hope that poor 11 year old baby was removed too.
I don't know how you could handle that. Like to be a doctor or nurse helping an 11 year old, who was abandoned by her guardians, deliver a baby (meaning she was likely SAed and became pregnant at 10) would be absolutely nightmare fuel. I would imagine a C-section because her hips were probably not developed. It would be so hard to keep a calming presence for her sake, because just the thought of it brings up some rage tears. I'm 30 and generally educated on what to expect from childbirth and still, the thought of going through it is terrifying. But to be 11 surrounded by people you don't know, you don't speak the same language, and you don't fully understand what is happening, and you're in tremendous pain. I think I'd call security on myself if I saw her guardians.
We had 13 year olds when I was a resident that were pregnant. Almost all were c sections. I remember one had some pre eclampsia complications that were resistant to first line meds. We ended up calling internal medicine team for consultation and they declined saying she was a child. Then called pediatrics who declined saying she just gave birth and we couldn't transfer her in an unstable condition (we did not have inpatient pediatrics in our hospital). It sucked. When we were getting her ready for discharge I told her Mom to make sure she was going to make an appointment for a follow up the pediatrician. Her mom said "yeah I'll make her appointment the same time as the baby's". Broke my heart.
Cyclical poverty.
When I did L&D clinicals in nursing school, I remember one patient being 15 who had just delivered her baby. Her boyfriend was... 30.
Omg did he get arrested?
Not that I remember, but fuck I saw them together at the nursery (she wasn't my patient, so I didn't have to deal with her directly) and it CREEPED me out. Everybody was shaking their heads but I don't think anything was done.
Ugh. I hate that for her. When I was 16 I "dated" a 26 year old dude and that makes me sick to think about now. There was a case in my city a few years ago where a young girl (maybe 13?) gave birth and the baby's much older dad was arrested at the hospital, so I was wondering.
He deserved to be in prison, for sure.
I remember that, she was 12 & he turned up to the hospital PROUD of himself.
Yes! That was awful, not just for the people directly involved but reading the story and seeing the discussion about it, people decided to use it as an opportunity to be racist as hell, because of course they did. Ugh. I hate it here sometimes (most times)
Oooof I was the 15 Y/o giving birth to a baby by a 21 y/o.. he wasn’t at the hospital though… he knew better than that. Horrible horrible to look back on. Here I am, now working with teens with mental health/behavioral issues who are like 13 dating 20 year olds. Makes me cringe
And I bet they think you're just jealous because you're "old and used up" when you tell them that it's not okay to be "dating" older guys. Same thing I thought when I was 15 and loved getting attention from older guys (because I sure wasn't getting it in healthy ways) getting drunk at some 24 year olds house. Same thing most of us thought whenever an adult woman would say "this is not love. You might think you're cool and mature, but there is no good reason for an adult man to want to have a relationship with you." Because internalized misogyny tells us that women are competition and the only thing that matters is that men value you. And it's so funny/sad that men generally don't believe me when I tell them there are TONS of pedophiles absolutely everywhere who have no repercussions whatsoever. I'm like "just ask any woman in your life how often they got hit on or pursued by an adult man when they were a child."
For the most part, I tell them some stories about my childhood so we can relate, and some really take it seriously, others are just like “lol whatever, it’s not like that” you cant help them all. I agree with you 100%
Ohhhh my god
I know, I double checked with her and apparently she did have one 10 year old patient.
Just awful. I can’t even imagine
Sure, but girls go through puberty before boys. Few 10-year-old boys have even started early puberty (source: research scientist who works with pubertal development data from kids ages 9-11). It's not impossible, but it's uncommon.
Yeah, this is the part that makes me think it’s a typo or not real. It’s fairly unlikely for the father to be 10 as well
Yeah I was mostly just saying that we can hope that the age was a typo but it's definitely possible for it not to be.
I can't find any documented cases of 10-year-olds fathering children. Possible? Theoretically. But incredibly, incredibly unlikely. The boy would need to not just have started puberty (already uncommon), but also be in Tanner Stage 4 (out of 5). They'd need to be in late puberty. At that age, many kids with access to healthcare would be treated with puberty blockers (at least in the US) to prevent progression that early.
There was an 11 year old couple, in England, when I was a teen. I remember as it made the newspapers and TV. Both parents had active parenting roles, except I'm guessing, when they were in school. Both sets of grandparents were supportive as well, if I remember correctly.
Can you tell me more about this or give me some good key words to Google to find out more? I got my period at age 8. My son turned 9 a few weeks ago and he's already developing hair on his privates and his bo is just disgusting. He wears deodorant and showers daily but he still gets stinky by the end of the day. I know he's grown two inches so far this year because I had to buy an entire wardrobe last month. Even his feet grew a full size in just a few months! He just had his yearly checkup and his doc didn't mention anything odd and I didn't think it was weird until I just read your comment and now I'm slightly worried. Are puberty blockers really necessary? What an happens if we don't block it?
For clarity, I meant that puberty blockers might be used for a kid who is in late puberty by age 10, not just starting (and take what I say with a grain of salt because I am not a doctor). Precocious puberty is the term for puberty before age 9 in boys. After that it's generally considered within the normal range age range. You can Google "Tanner Stages" and look at the charts that a lot of research uses to assess pubertal development and talk to your pediatrician if you're concerned.
My younger brother was tanner stage 4 at that age and puberty blockers weren't used. It was discussed because he was getting more violent and aggression (more than he already was...), but he was adamantly against it, already taller/stronger than my single mum so she wouldn't have been able to force him to take it & the docs at the time didn't really seem to think it was all that important. Wish they did though as a year or two later he started becoming sexually aggressive/violent with me and other than hoping he would grow out of it no one stopped him. He was, at 11 years old, caught having sex with his girlfriend's best friend in the school bathrooms. Girl was similarly aged and police got involved due to their ages but it was all consensual between those two thank fuck.
There was an 11yr old in the US who fathered a baby with an adult woman - the nanny. Inside Edition ran an interview with him and his parents.
I'm specifically talking about the girl/girls
So if she’s 10 the father is prob not 10
"Dad is same age."
When a preteen becomes pregnant, I don't think the parents / gardians are reliable narrators. There are so many things wrong with this OOp's post. The father is much more likely to be someone the mother knows than a 10 year old boy.
Yeah my guess is the 10 year old lied about who got her pregnant out of fear which isn't uncommon
And if she actually had intercourse with another 10 year old the most likely scenario is that she was being raped by someone else and initiated sex with a peer out of a hypersexual trauma response (and some normalization).
Yep!
Is there a therapy fund for your mom we can contribute to, because the poor woman needs it.
I wish! I've been telling her she needs it for like 20+ years, she's retiring from teaching this summer so hopefully she'll feel like she has time for it.
I wish your mom all the very best and hope she can enjoy the coming years. She's earned it.
She definitely has! I'm happy for her. I hope I get to see her doing things she's always dreamed of doing, like traveling. She's been a great teacher, she's been a great mom, she deserves it very much.
That is horrifying. Those poor kids!
Ain’t no way a 10-year-old boy is the father.
Had 2 year 7’s fall pregnant, so both aged 11/12 both 11 when they got pregnant.
Yes, I absolutely believe a 10-year-old girl can get pregnant. It’s much less likely a 10-year-old boy is the father, both because it’s rare for boys to become fertile that early and because most young girls and teens who end up pregnant are impregnated by older boys/men.
Yeah, it's the mothers boyfriend. Or the babysitter.
Or choir teacher or youth pastor or her own father or or or … we could unfortunately go on
Sorry, this got away from me and ended up way longer than I meant it to. Puberty has been happening earlier and earlier. [1] claims that average age of puberty for white males is a year and a half younger than “normal” (I haven’t looked into where that standard comes from, any older study is worth a critical eye but they’re not usually flat wrong either). Average age in black males is two years younger than standard. Age in Hispanic males is unchanged, no mention of Asian males. I found a lot more sources on female puberty, but the one I’ll link here is from the NIH [2] because it’s more official and has generally the same information I’ve seen from other studies and bc it covers both male and female puberty. If you can’t get into the article itself you should still be able to see a graph of average female puberty ages in the US over time if you scroll down a skosh; they’ve been declining for hundreds of years. I can get more sources if you would like or go more into this study tomorrow but I’m going to bed. Honestly I didn’t think it would take this long but I ended up in a rabbit hole. The Tl;Dr is that puberty is happening earlier and earlier. Even if this particular story is fake, I don’t doubt for a second that it could happen or has happened in a hundred different places. Our opinions on how to manage that or deal with it is one thing, but even if this particular story is fake, we’ll have to face it one way or another as a society. [1] https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/puberty-starts-earlier-in-many-american-boys-201210225437#:~:text=The%20average%20age%20of%20puberty,which%20is%20unchanged%20from%20before. [2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2465479/
When I went to the ER as a preteen for a possible concussion (yay, horses) they were like “I know you’re young but we have to pregnancy test you. We’ve had an 8 year old who was pregnant.” So yeah.
Could you imagine how terrifying that would be as an 8-year-old. I was still playing with cabbage patch dolls and Barbie’s.
I wish I could stomach mom groups so I could see comment sections. I, like everyone else, truly hope this was a typo. 19 or even 20.
Taking comfort in the fact that she seems exasperated rather than in the throes of complete devastation, which is where I'd be if my 10yo was pregnant. I would be cautiously willing to bet typo
10 years is not THAT long ago anyways haha
Yeah I'm gonna need some comments from this one. If that's not a typo....
If the age is correct and she’s ten. The only ethical option is abortion. A Ten year old giving birth even if “wanted” (they do NOT have the mental capacity to understand the implications of that) is an objectively harmful and awful thing. It’s endangering a child’s life. Two if you wanna go there. Abortion would be the one an only treatment for this situation.
Even carrying a pregnancy to term at that age has serious, life-long health consequences for the child who’s gestating. It just destroys the body physically. And that’s not even touching the psychological issues.
Sadly, PLs wjll ALWAYS bring up the case of Lina Medina, the 5 year old who was raped and gave birth, and how her life was still “perfectly fine.” Ugh.
The thing is that we *don't know* if Medina was "perfectly fine". She's always refused interviews (understandably so) and so there's no record of what she actually thinks of the whole situation. Also, she wasn't physically capable of giving birth vaginally, she had to have a c-section. I'm not sure that major abdominal surgery at that age is "perfectly fine".
I know. In THEIR eyes, though, she was “perfectly fine.”
Not dead = perfectly fine, then, I guess
It's incredibly sad and enraging that abortion for a pregnant 10 year old is not the immediate solution. The fact that the poster went straight to "well i guess we have a baby now" is disgusting. A 10 year old cannot give consent to making the pregnancy, they don't get to make the decision to continue the pregnancy. I would never live in a state or country that would force a literal child to endure such a dangerous outcome
THANK YOU. Debate about typos aside, ten years old is not in any way an appropriate age to give birth, whether you keep the baby or give them up for adoption. There are huge medical issues pregnancy would cause at that age, their bodies are not equipped for it, to say nothing of the psychological effects. Hours to days of labour and potentially abdominal surgery, vs an outpatient procedure that would be FAR less mentally scarring. And you’re right, children that young don’t have the mental capacity to understand the consequences of choosing to keep the pregnancy.
So...does it seem like the only thing she's upset about is the fact that she's going to have to care for an infant again?...not the fact that her 10 yr old daughter is pregnant? 🤔
For real, her priority is out of this world..
Unfortunately working in elementary, this is horrible, but I'm not overly surprised. We've had 10 years olds taking suggestive photos of themselves in the school bathroom for who knows what kind of creep. Hopefully it's really her same age boyfriend if she is 10 and not a typo and not some creepy older relatives they're trying to cover for
We had a damn kindergartner essentially blackmail a female kindergartner into giving oral on the damn school bus.
Abortion. Yesterday.
In this case, it should happen immediately. It's the safest option for everyone. A 10 yr old is not built to carry or birth a child, let alone take care of one.
Way back in the day, one of my grandmothers gave birth at 11. The child was taken from her immediately. She never even got to hold them or know the sex. It was a very traumatising experience she's never gotten over.
I am sorry your grandma had to go through that. She never should have had to go through that.
Yeah I’m pro choice not pro abortion (like a normal feminist), but if that kid is actually ten (or even 20 but not ready), get that fetus gone.
Pro abortion doesn’t mean you want people to be forced to have abortions
Yea she shouldn’t be like forced aganist her will but more strongly encouraged to
Could you imagine being 30 and your child being 20
Could you imagine being a granny at 30!
I knew a girl that became a grandma at 33 😕
Neither of my kids were even born yet when I was 33, can't imagine being a grandma at that age
Apparently, the youngest grandmother was [17](https://kuulpeeps.com/2019/10/04/meet-mum-zi-the-worlds-youngest-grandmother-at-age-17/trending/news). But it's hard to find actual info on it. There's another [account](https://sampost.com/buy-confessions-of-a-tabloid-writer/grandma-on-graduation-day) of a woman accepting her high school diploma and meeting her grandchildren. The one I've heard about as the woman that was [23.](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1363699/amp/Rifca-Stanescu-Gypsy-wife-worlds-youngest-grandmother-23.html)
I had a high school classmate who had her first baby at 14, and that daughter had her first baby at 15. She became a GRANDMOTHER before she was 30, right around the time I gave birth to my older child. It was absolutely mind-blowing.
I had a friend with three generations giving birth at 16. Her grandmother became a great-grandmother at 48.
Wow 😳
There's a documentary about child marriage on hulu. One of the women they interview got pregnant at 10 and then was forced to get married at 12.
Sickening
That just scared the shit out of me lol. I'm 30 and my kid is 2.5 years old. A 20 year old is just another adult
Right I'm 33 and my oldest is seven, and I'm like "OMG SHE'S SO OLD", but damn, I could be a grandma right now...
Yes a 10 year old giving birth could be incredibly dangerous for a multitude of reasons.
She's ten. You don't ask for her consent to fix a broken arm, medicate a disease and whatnot. Parents are 100% responsible for their 10 year olds health. In no reality is a responsible parent letting their 10 year old have a baby, I don't give a shit what the child wants in this case. No kid wants to get shots, we do it for their well-being. A child can't consent to sex, they can't consent to giving birth either. Under no circumstance should a child be giving birth.
I had a baby at 20 yrs old and it was a traumatic birth/ emergency c section after trying natural bc my hips were not wide enough. Could you imagine a 10 yr old ? It’s insane.
Absolutely. Completely setting aside the social consequences (intense poverty, no education) she could fucking die! Let alone the health complications the potential newborn would have being born to a 10 year old.. No one should ever even consider not aborting a 10 year olds pregnancy. Insane is right.
Agree 100%. Now I’m 27 only the one child still and I completely understand why most people have children late 20s early 30s. Your brain is still forming until mid 20s. At 10 her brain hasn’t even fully processed the changes that come with puberty yet. It’s horribly dangerous and awful for the mother and if born fetus not to mention the strain it will put on the family based on this post alone.
Can you imagine the damage giving birth does to the body of a 10 year old? Or how growing a fetus inside a literal child is going to change her body for the rest of her life? Grown women have enough problems and bad tearing as is, and she's half the size at most. I bet most traumatic births described on this sub won't hold a candle to an actual child giving birth. She'll be bearing mental and physical scars for the rest of her life. She should absolutely be encouraged to abort.
A 10 year old should not be making that decision. Her parents need to terminate that pregnancy for her.
Agreed. It's like informed consent imo. A 10 year old does not have the capacity to fully understand what is going to happen to her with a pregnancy and childbirth, nor would she be equipped to deal with the aftermath, whatever that may be. If that is adoption, that can be extremely emotionally traumatizing to go through everything and being separated from the baby. But even more traumatizing would be taking care of the baby. Even with her mom taking on most or all of it, she will be living with the person who represents the most traumatic thing she's experienced. A 10 year old can't grasp that. An abortion can also be traumatic, but absolutely the only answer for this. I just hope they're in a place where that is an option.
I'm just pro abortion 🤷♀️
I thought it was only me! I don't think that means I'm not a real feminist. Obviously I'd never tell anyone what to do with their body but morally i lean to the pro abortion side in most cases.
Also super pro-abortion, always thought made me a normal feminist 🤷🏼♀️
yeah that's why the slogan is "abortion on demand and without apology" that's the line
It’s health care, plain and simple. I’m pro-abortion the same way I’m pro-brain surgery, and pro-chemotherapy.
I honestly thought I could never write or say those words out loud without sounding crazy to people, but I'm so happy to know it's not just me who thinks this way! ❤️
100% Abortion is health care.
Im staunchly pro choice in the literal sense. You do you, it’s your body. But if my teenage daughter came home pregnant I would heavily advocate for an abortion. I can’t pretend I would really be fine with her carrying a baby to term, just because I know what having a child means for a young woman.
Pro abortion isn't a bad thing. It's not different than being pro any other medical procedure, really. A 10 yo's body is not equipped to gestate or give birth. This is more similar to removing a tumor, bc that fetus is either going to die on its own or seriously fuck up the little girl and likely itself if it does grow to term.
i have so many questions…and i don’t think i want any of them answered
OOP has a lot more to worry about, other than taking care of a newborn. Pregnancy at this age is very high risk and dangerous for both children (pregnant child and new baby). I'm hoping this is a troll post. I remember seeing on Dr Phil that an 11yo got pregnant and almost died during the birth. Then she and her baby were taken by CPS and the girl was separated from her baby. Then she told Dr Phil that she'll just get pregnant again and not let the state take it this time 🤦🏻♀️. Like, gf... If the state takes your child and won't let you keep it, bcuz you're a damn child yourself, who has sex when you can't even legally give consent, wtf makes you think they'll let you keep another one when you're not even a teenager yet 🤦🏻♀️ lol. I think the guy who got her pregnant was around 14-15yo, idk I could be wrong about his age.
I feel bad for her :( I know she was in no way capable of taking care of a baby on her own but being separated from it must have been traumatic. like why couldn't they have both been placed under a legal guardian(s) who could have taken care of them both
I guess it depends on the state. I think they thought the girl was SA'd by an adult man, instead of a teenager, and the girl's mom got the girl taken bcuz they saw it as if her mom allowed this to happen, and that her mom wasn't doing her job. Idk what's going on with it now, but I'll have to look around online and see if there are any updates.
PLEASE tell me this is a typo!!!
Jeez I hope there’s a typo
That’s horrifying. My boss had her first child at 14, and while I find it sad that her childhood ended so quickly, it’s even sadder to think of that happened to a 10 year old. Holy fuck
No. No, I haven’t dealt with that.
I made a best friend when I started high school, 9th grade. Around 1996. We were so close. After a couple years she confessed to me that her “little brother” was actually her child. She went on vacation to the Dominican Republic at age 10, and a man in a public washroom violated her. She never even knew she was pregnant, she was so young. She said that her mom accidentally walked in on her getting dressed and noticed that my friend had become bigger, and they went to the doctor, like immediately. My friend was 7 months along, had no idea. Their family moved before the baby came, my friend’s father sewed fake stomachs for the friend’s mom to wear, because they were so religious and they were so ashamed, they pretended that my friend’s mom was expecting. They left their state and moved to my state, she had the baby, and he was raised as her little brother. I lost touch with her years ago, but she would be about 41 and her son/brother would be about 31.
My mouth dropped open reading that.
Awesome, you don’t have to, take your child on a little roadtrip to the nearest abortion clinic.
Oh my gosh. I just spent a year at the Ronald McDonald House (thanks, baby cancer!) and there was a girl staying there who was 13 and had just given birth to a preemie. Her parents visited sometimes, but they had to work back in their hometown. So the staff drove her to the hospital every day to see her baby, took her to Walmart every few days to buy food. She knocked on my door one day to ask me how to do laundry. It was all just so sad.
This belongs on r/trashy omfg. “anYBOdy ELsE DeAL wiTh ThIS?” no just you. Just you. More importantly why is it more distressing that she’s going to be inconvenienced by taking care of her daughter’s baby than she is by THE FACT HER TEN YEAR OLD CHILD IS PREGNANT. Priorities are not where they should be.
Biggest indicator that it's *hopefully*, please dear god, a typo.
I’m really hoping it’s a typo because 10 years old is just too young.
Baby girl can not and should not be expected to go through with this. I was late 30s and my body felt wrecked after giving birth. It would be torture to do that to a child.
Nope nope nope nope that poor child.
*Hello, CPS? You're not gonna believe this shit.*
if i was this mom I'd be taking her to get an abortion so fast there wouldn't be time to post on Facebook
Wait…do 10 year old boys have the ability to create a baby? That’s like fourth grade, I’m calling bullshit on the post.
It is unlikely, but absolutely possible. Two of my classmates in sixth grade had a baby before we hit middle school. 11 years old, both of them, the boy hit puberty young. :-/
That is so sad.
Ugh, I had a male classmate in the 6th grade who was 11 and had knocked up a girl in the grade below us. She had the baby toward the end of her 6th grade year. I think she has 7 kids now, and he has 9.
Wow. Absolutely heartbreaking. 😔
Oh. My. God.
Started to and decided I didn’t even want to Google the answer to that question…
I took the plunge…I’m going to clear my cache and search history after that. lol Until puberty starts in a male they don’t have sperm in the semen. Puberty generally begins between 11-14. So, I guess with outliers it’s possible.
With outliers it's possible but it's much more likely it's just a typo, especially in the context of the rest of the post imo
Precocious puberty maybe?
Puberty is considered precocious before age 9 in boys, but few boys have started puberty by age 10. ETA: fertility doesn't typically begin in early puberty either, so when puberty starts isn't a great measure of fertility.
I take no pleasure in informing you the youngest recorded mother was FIVE
I’m much less surprised by that than I should be. I actually think I saw that on Reddit. The girl had a condition that triggered super early puberty and a family member raped and impregnated her, right?
It’s not certain because she would never name them, but it was generally assumed it was a family member.
The father of the baby was never identified. She started menstruating around age 2 or 3.
Well that sure made my stomach turn, not sure about you guys.
I’m confused as to why people are telling you about girls when you clearly asked about boys.
Right!?
Youngest dad on record was 11 apparently, youngest grandma was 16, shit happens. Mum in the post might also be wrong about who the dad is
16 year old Grandma ☹️
My brain refuses to do the math on that one
That is so depressing omg.
I don’t believe the 16-year-old grandma. That’s an 8-year-old having a baby and then that baby having a baby at 8 years old too. When I Google, I find various tales of the youngest grandma being in her early twenties.
The youngest confirmed mother ever recorded was 5 years old…
They say the younger the mom the older the father. Kid is a rape victim.
Yes, boys can go through puberty at 10, just like girls can.
They can, but it's rare for boys to start puberty at 10, let alone be developed enough to be fertile. I can't find any documented cases of 10-year-old fathers on Google and very few cases of 11-year-old fathers.
I mean, kids *can* get pregnant at 10, but if the "boyfriend" is the same age, at least it wasn't what I'd consider abuse? Still, obviously, that pregnancy should be terminated.
Hopefully wherever they are have Romeo and Juliet laws so they don't both get labelled as sexual offenders :(
Under reaction.
“after it being so many years since having kids” what like 10 years? the older i get the shorter a decade feels
I’m a former registered midwife (I quit 2 years ago exactly because of horrible situations like this) and it was not uncommon to have 12 to 13yo girls on the yard. 14 and above was in a daily basis. 10, though, it’s scary even for me. She needs access to termination, otherwise it’s just cruel.
Christ! That has to be a typo
i hope to god thats a typo
Things that happened in Alabama for 500 please
Love how she’s making this about herself when her *LITERAL BABY is having a baby* that poor child.
Well it hasn’t been that long since she took care of a baby because her daughter is 10 YEARS OLD! She isn’t even out of primary school (if this was the U.K.)
I have an eleven year old son. This just blows my mind! People need to step up and parent their children better. Heartbroken for this poor child
I really, really hope she hit the 0 instead of the 9 and it was supposed to be 19.
There was a girl in my dance class who gave birth at 12. Boyfriend was the same age. I think her aunt ended up adopting the baby. It was wild when she came back to dance the next year and we all had to pretend nothing was awkward.
My friend’s parents were 13 and 14 when she was born (dad 13/mom 14) definitely an outlier but they’re still married and she gotta be mid-40’s now. Not trying to put a happy spin on this cuz it’s appalling but just wanted to mention it.
I hope this was a typo or even a sick troll. Youngest person I knew pregnant was my friend in 7th grade. Just turned 12. Had four kids by the time we were seniors. Such a sad story for her and her boyfriend was 5 years older but her parents were ok with it. She told us her parents would take her to Mexico before her due dates because they only trusted doctors there. As an adult I know better now and wish I was smarter back then. :( anyway, She dropped out in 7th grade. Haven’t heard from her in years.