Grandmother flippant as her ten year old gives birth

A controversy has begun in Europe as a 10 year old gives birth The birth occurred in Jelez de la Frontera, within the region of Andalusia, Spain. Despite being only 10 years old, the brand new mom is resting and happy, according to her mom, a brand new grandmother. The brand new grandma and pregnant daughter went to Spain to birth the child, and both are Roma, individuals occasionally called gypsies. Marriages and pregnancies that numerous cultures think about drastically, even criminally, young are not unusual at all among Roma.

10-year-old gives birth

"10-year old gives birth" is a story all over the web although it started in Andalusia. Recently, in Jelez de la Frontera, a 10-year-old Roma girl gave birth to a daughter, according to the Huffington Post. Olimpia is the mother of the girl. She is keeping a private identity for her daughter. The father of the baby is unverified as of right now. He is expected to be in Romania though and is 13 years old. He isn't with the mother. Their relationship ended. This isn't an unusual event, Olimpia says as a new grandmother. She says that getting married and giving birth is something women do young in her culture. Many marriages are arranged in these countries. This is despite the fact that underage marriages are illegal in numerous places.

Record age was 5

AOL News reports that Lina Medina is the youngest mother on record who in 1939 gave birth at 5 years in Peru. Some children start puberty really early which is called precocious puberty. A hormone imbalance makes this happen. If a girl with precocious puberty gets pregnant, the father is generally arrested. This is just the majority of the time. In Spain, the legal age of consent for minors is 13, and breach of that brings charges of child abuse. Andalusia has the highest rate of teen pregnancies, accounting for 48 of the 177 births by girls younger than 15 in Spain in 2008.

Different cultures allow different things

The Roma culture in Europe is criticized most frequently for the young age at which some are married. The government expelled many of the Roma living in France most recently.

Citations

Huffington Post

huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/03/olimpia-mother-of-10yearo_n_778284.html

AOL News

aolnews.com/surge-desk/article/mother-unfazed-after-10-year-old-daughter-gives-birth/1970000

Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precocious_puberty