- Mother met boyfriend a year ago and was 11 when baby was conceived
- Pair from London have combined age of 25 and ‘intend to stick together’
- At 27, the girl’s mother is also now one of UK’s youngest grandmothers
- Charity: ‘They will be dependent on others, financially and emotionally’
- Britain’s previous youngest parents were 14-year-olds from Caerphilly
- Previous youngest mother gave birth at age of 12 in Edinburgh in 2006
By LEON WATSON and MARK DUELL
PUBLISHED: 01:16 GMT, 16 April 2014 | UPDATED: 10:06 GMT, 16 April 2014
A 12-year-old girl has given birth to her 13-year-old boyfriend’s baby – making them Britain’s youngest parents, it was revealed today.
The girl, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had a daughter last weekend after conceiving when she was still at primary school.
She was 11 then, and is now in Year 7 at school. Her boyfriend, who also cannot be named, is in Year 9 at another school.
The pair have the lowest combined age of any British parents on record. She, at 12 years and three months, is five months younger than the UK’s previous youngest mother, Tressa Middleton.
Their child weighed 7lb, which is close to the UK average for a girl of 7lb 4oz, The Sun reported.
At 27, the girl’s mother, who was a teenage mother herself, is also now one of Britain’s youngest grandmothers.
The readers of The Muslim Times may wonder, why I am posting this mail here. Well, just to put things in perspective, when ‘Westerners’ complain about ‘under-age marriage’ in Muslim countries. Yes, my esteemed mother-in-law was 13 when she married my father-in-law who was 17. They had an absolutely happy marriage, an example for all of us. (and, no, they did not get any ‘subsidy’ from ‘the state’).