A 12-year-old schoolgirl and her 13-year-old boyfriend are believed to have become Britain’s youngest parents.
The new mum became pregnant at the age of 11, when still at primary school, and gave birth to a girl weighing 7lb 4oz (3.28kg) on Sunday.
“Both sets of grandparents are incredibly supportive. It’s a very difficult situation because the parents are both so young, but their families are right behind them," a source told the The Sun.
“They’re very into each other, totally in love. She is obsessed with him. She sees this as true love. They want to get married.”
The source says that the couple plan to remain a couple to raise the child together.
‘‘The baby’s mum and dad have been in a relationship for more than a year, so this isn’t a fleeting romance. They intend to stick together and bring their daughter up together.
‘‘They’re very into each other, totally in love. She’s in Year Seven, he’s in Year Nine at a different school.’’
The new mother was 10 when she met her boyfriend. The pair, from north London, cannot be named for legal reasons.
The schoolgirl lives with her mother, who is 27, and is supportive of the couple.
The girl's father told UK radio station LBC that they only found out about the pregnancy when the girl was eight months pregnant, leaving few options.
"We only found out she was pregnant a month ago. I cried. You break down with emotion. She was eight months gone. I broke down. What can you say?"
"Sorry was one of the words said."
"She was eight months pregnant. The baby is going to come into the world no matter what. You can just be supportive about it."
He added that he was still proud of his daughter.
"She's only my little girl, whether she's done that or not. There are lots of routes kids this age can take. Lots of kids are on drugs. She brought something beautiful into the world and we're all proud of her."
Being 12 years and three months old makes the new mother, who cannot be named, five months younger than the previous youngest mother, Tressa Middleton, who gave birth in Edinburgh after also falling pregnant at age 11 in 2006.
Middleton originally claimed a local boy was the father, but later reported her 16-year-old brother as her rapist. He spent four years in prison as a result.
April Webster and Nathan Fishbourne, the previous youngest parents, were 14 when their son Jamie was born in Caerphilly, South Wales, in 2010.
Starting young
Starting young
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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What are they staring at?
Re: Staring young
Oh piss, editted 
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
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Re: Starting young
They’re very into each other
Somebody should be in juvenile hall getting their head(s) handed to them
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Re: Starting young
The parents of the parents sound like complete friggin' morons... 
The poor baby should be put up for adoption so that he/she might have a proper chance in life, and the happy couple should be put in foster care (uh, separately) far away from their irresponsible idiot parents so that they might have a decent chance in life as well.
The poor baby should be put up for adoption so that he/she might have a proper chance in life, and the happy couple should be put in foster care (uh, separately) far away from their irresponsible idiot parents so that they might have a decent chance in life as well.
Re: Starting young
Losing the distinction between the type of respect owed to autonomous adults and that which is owed to children.
Just a horrible decision. I just hope it stays an outlier.
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Just a horrible decision. I just hope it stays an outlier.
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Re: Starting young
I've never been a math wiz, but it seems grandma here was only 15 when she had the child who's had the child. Chip off the old block as far as babies having babies.
GAH!
Re: Starting young
My Nan was 16 when she had my mum, mum was 15 when she had my oldest brother. Nan had five grandchildren by the time she was 40.
I chose not to follow that particular path. Not everyone has to become a product of their history, it's sad for this little girl that she has.
I chose not to follow that particular path. Not everyone has to become a product of their history, it's sad for this little girl that she has.
Re: Starting young
Sarcastic comments aside, I don't see any reason why the child cannot be raised by the mother and her family and have a reasonably normal young life.
Mummy and Daddy getting hitched, obviously, is another proposition altogether, and needs to wait until they are adults, if they still are interested in each other.
Mummy and Daddy getting hitched, obviously, is another proposition altogether, and needs to wait until they are adults, if they still are interested in each other.
Re: Starting young
After falling pregnant? If that is how one becomes pregnant in the UK, well then no wonder. . .
“I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.” ~ Ruth Bader Ginsburg, paraphrasing Sarah Moore Grimké
Re: Starting young
Inspired use of a passive verb; "falling". "Gravity was just there waiting for us and gosh golly she fell pregnant!"
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Re: Starting young
Well, that would explain why that cop was so ticked off after she tripped over that curb...Guinevere wrote:After falling pregnant? If that is how one becomes pregnant in the UK, well then no wonder. . .