An 11-year-old girl from Britain has given birth to a baby boy. Questions are being raised that how the family members did not come to know about the pregnancy of the girl child.
11-year-old girl becomes mother in Britain (signal photo)
Media reports are claiming that an 11-year-old girl has given birth to a child as Britain’s youngest mother ever. The report states that the girl’s mother was only 10 years old when she became pregnant, about which her family was not aware till the beginning of this month.
According to media reports, both the mother and child are healthy but social services are investigating the circumstances of the pregnancy and contacting the girl’s family. A source told The Sun, ‘After this news everyone has got a big shock. The girl is now surrounded with the help of experts. The most important thing is that both mother and child are ‘fine’.
In 2006, a 12-year-old girl became ‘mother’
According to the report, such questions are being raised that why people did not know. This is very worrying. According to the news of Dailystar, earlier Britain’s youngest mother was called Teresa Middleton. She gave birth to a child in 2006 at the age of 12. He had admitted that the father of the child was his brother, who had raped him.
According to a report in The Mirror, the record for the youngest parents was held by a 13-year-old father and a 12-year-old mother, when they had a child in 2014. Young children can be at risk of developing a number of serious problems, including infections and pre-eclampsia, while pregnant. In 2017, a case of another girl giving birth to a child at the age of 11 was reported in the UK but not much information was found about this.
world’s youngest mother
The youngest mother in the world was a Peruvian girl named Lina Media, who was only five years and seven months old when she gave birth to a boy named Gerardo in May 1939. Her parents thought she had a tumor but when she was taken to the hospital, she was found to be seven months pregnant.
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