BRITAIN’S YOUNGEST PARENTS: AGE12 AND 13
Last weekend, a 12 year old girl gave birth to a 7lb baby girl. Making her and her 13 year old boyfriend the youngest parents in Britain. The Sun reports that she fell pregnant at 11, while still at primary school, shortly after starting a relationship with a boy who lives near her family home in North London. The young parents have set the record of the lowest combined age of any British parents in history.
A source close to the family told The Sun that the pair, who have been in a relationship for over a year, were ‘totally in love’ and plan to bring up their newborn daughter together. ‘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. ‘The baby’s mum and dad have been in a relationship for more than 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 is obsessed with him. She sees this as true love. They want to get married.’ The young mother, who lives with her mother, hopes to return to school in September. At 27, her mother is one of the UK’s youngest ever grandmothers reports The
