10 Year-Old Gives Birth in Southern Spain

More article here: http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=12034197


That is disgusting, really. I'm fairly sure I still had an imaginary friend at the age of ten. Girls don't even remotely have breasts at that age. The fact that the child was having consensual intercourse is cause enough for alarm over the parenting skills of the girl's parents.

 

I dislike how they don't mention the age of the father other than he's also a minor. 17's a minor, at least here. I would feel different if it was a 17 year old father (definitely think he should be charged) than an 11 year old one. If he really is around her age, then oh my god what are their parents doing?

Were they sexually active or was this an experiment?
Either way...damn.

 

Really, this is sad. Children shouldn't have sexual intercourse at that age. Kids should be kids and not be having sex when they're minors.

If the girl is willing to take care of the kid and she's happy then let her keep it. If she's okay enough with it to even have sex in the first place then she should get the choice. What concerns me is the parents' response. They'd have to pay for the food, diapers, medicine (if it gets sick), etc. I doubt the parents are happy about their minor child having a kid and who knows what they will say.

One last thing... what the f--k were they thinking?
Oh yeah, they were too busy f---ing each other to think about it.

 

I'd assume that the way they mean minor would be under the age of 13. So I'm assume the father is either 10 as well or a year or so older. Or even more grossly, younger than the mother.

Anywho. It's pretty narly that two kids wanted to have sex and a baby at such a young age. But if their kid has a kid at age 10 as well then the mother will definitely be the youngest grandma too (the father would also be the youngest granddad if he's a close age to the mother), as far as I know.

 

It probably, sadly, wasn't consensual. And yes, even minors can do stuff like this to other minors.

What really ticks me off is the fact that the mother of the daughter is thrilled that the daughter had the child. That she went through all this. If that's not fame seeking glory and money, I don't know what is.

Sorry, but all of it ticks me off. That girl most likely will never recover from this, her body has taken a ton of stuff the baby needed while she is still growing. You grow at least until you're 21 years old. She's barely if halfway there, and the vital things she needs is now no longer available. And yes, I know kids had babies at a young age in the middle ages, but back then we had no idea what a human body needed. And our bodies were made a lot different to support the shorter life span of a person. She's most likely never going to have a baby again.

Not including all the lost time with school, the teasing of her classmates and god-knows what else, even if her parents are taking care of the baby. The whole thing makes me sick.

 

I'm... speechless.

All I really gotta say is... our world is spinning outta control for sure. The parents seem like they're okay with this according to the news article. What... the heck. Like Sra and other members said on here, she's not really ready for this. Her parents either obviously didn't raise her correctly to know that doing that to yourself is wrong and you should wait since your a child still, or those kids are just messed up. Well, now she gets a Baby-For-Real... for real now. Whether she knows it or not yet, it's going to probably scar her for life. And when that baby gets older... *Shudders* I can just imagine them sitting in kindergartern.

"My mom is thirty years old!"
"My mom is twenty six!"
"How old is your mommy?"
"... Fourteen."
"o.o"

Let the ridicule and brutal teasing begin.

Maybe they didn't know what would happen, maybe they did. But why? Gees... Man, this is so sad and sick.

 

I still say it's non-consensual. From the way that the news is wording it with refusing the age and not saying it's consensual at least leaves a hint it wasn't.

It still makes me sick. I just hope something happens for the daughter to get better.

 

Apparently the family claims it's normal in Romanian culture (as the girl is from Romania) to have a child at that age, which I think is either ridiculous, completely untrue, or most probably both.

Allegedly the father of the baby is 13, and is believed to still be in Romania.

 

But they're not even married, right? At least, I don't see anywhere in the article that says that. And they're okay with that? o.o Gees. How is that suppose to be right if it's so wrong?

 

I saw this on MSN when I had signed on earlier. The father is only 13, and apparently, him and the mother of the baby aren't together anymore. They "broke up".

This is just so sick and wrong. The mother of the ten year old is someone I'd actually blame. What mother would be happy to know their ten year old had a baby? Not even a mother would be happy to know if their 15 year old or even 18 year old had a child.

I'm surprised though that the ten year old even survived giving birth. At the age of ten, a girl's body isn't even fully developed. I feel sorry for that little girl.​

 

It's not. And those parents should have those kids taken away from them even if they were married or what-not, it could easily be part of the culture that the kids should be giving birth at 10, which I strongly doubt. They were obviously neglecting the child and the baby. If it's part of their culture, it means it'll continue and in 10 years or so from now, we could have another article about this.

No, they shouldn't have custody of the kids. And to continue your thoughts, Ven... Even if it was consensual, at any point those parents could've stopped this from happening. And at any point, they could've stopped her from having the kid. No matter what side you're on, the parents life was in clear danger from this. They didn't and are now saying it's okay that she did. They don't deserve anything.

 

That's what I was thinking. I mean, the mother of the 10 year old girl definitely doesn't look to be in her early twenties, which she would be if they were telling the truth about when Romanian women typically have children. Having done a research project on Roma/Sinti (gypsy) culture, I learned that they do sometimes culturally marry young, but even so, not nearly that young.

 

Well damn.


Never thought I'd see this. The youngest girl that gave birth that I read about before reading this was, I think 12.

 

I have mixed feelings about this. For one, the girl and boy are more to blame than the parents. Some parents DO consider 10 years be old enough to let their kids home alone, and some kids ARE mature enough at that age. So it can be safely assumed that these parents are not to blame because they were simply doing what many parents do. I say shame on the girl for inviting the boy over (as my assumption suggests) and shame on the boy for agreeing and possibly pressuring her into sex. It's possible it was also the girl's idea and she pressured him, but I'm just going on what seems more likely in this day and age.

However, I'm also very glad that the parents didn't force her to get an abortion. Also an assumption, but that's probably how it would have gone down in my experience. Even at ten years old, it was her baby and her choice. The parents were probably happy because not only did she make the right choice, she survived making the right choice. Now it could have gone the other way with the parents forcing her to have the baby and her wanting the abortion, but I think it's safe to assume that a girl of ten years would have no idea that you could kill a baby before birth.

All in all, I hate that this happened, but I'm glad that it happened the way it did. The only way to make it more ideal without it not happening would be if the father was still there. All blessings to this girl and her family, especially the newborn.

 

Another important thing no one seems to have touched upon yet is what's going to end up happening to the newborn. Physically the 10-year old can't provide care for the baby, at that young an age her body just isn't ready for childrearing. No breasts= no way to actually feed the baby, so now the infant is being deprived of key nutrients, while Mom (the 10-year old, I mean) is still trying to recover from 9 months of having what she needed to grow with drained from her. I can only hope the newborn ends up going to a caring family that can actually, you know, take care of it.

I feel kind of awful for the girl too...I wonder if it really is their culture, and her mother drilled it into her that she was going to have to do this at 10.

 

We don't know that the girl didn't want an abortion. For all we know, the parents may have forced her to bare the child, when the girl wanted to get an abortion.

I wouldn't be happy if the parents forced her either way — getting an abortion or keeping the child — but the fact that the family claims to be "thrilled" and "overwhelmed with joy", it's just completely deranged.

 

I do agree that the baby needs to be adopted, but why hasn't anyone mentioned open adoption yet? This way the girl can go see her baby any time while it's growing up. The only problem is that she should be the one to decide who gets her baby, which will be extremely unlikely to be the case.

@Luna Lovegood: You seem to have completely ignored this sentence.

And again, they were probably "thrilled" and "overwhelmed with joy" because she survived the childbirth. I see nothing wrong with being happy that your ten year old daughter is alive.

 

The fact that she had sex and was impregnated, maybe?

I can't think of any parent that wants to see their daughter lose her virginity and have a child before even being considered a teenager. It's quite ridiculous if you ask me: just goes to further emphasize that we need to start Sex Ed. at an earlier age. If the girl had been taught to wait until she was ready and to properly use protection, we wouldn't have to read this story.

 

It does appear I must have missed that sentence, sorry about that.

But it sounds to me, from this video, that she is very happy that to have a grandchild, and she admits she doesn't see why everyone is so worked up over it.

 

I also consider losing your virginity at such a young age to be a bad thing. However, just the fact that she survived the event should be enough reason to rejoice in my opinion. And besides all that, the miracle of birth is the miracle of birth. A new life in the world is always a good thing, even if the surrounding circumstances are bad.

I agree that they were underreacting slightly quite a bit far too much, but as I said above, a new life is a new life, and should be cause for rejoicing no matter how bad the circumstances surrounding it are. Much like how all death should be mourned even if that one death saved millions or the person that died was a terribly evil man.