Girl (12) And Boy (13) Together Become Britain’s Youngest Parents

A twelve-year-old girl and her thirteen-year-old boyfriend have both become Britain’s youngest parents as they have just welcomed a baby. The mother of the girl was also a teenage mother.

According to Daily Mail UK,

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 today.

At 27, the girl’s mother, who was a teenage mother herself, is also now one of Britain’s youngest grandmothers. The parents, from north London, have been in a relationship for a year and say they are ‘totally in love’.

They met over Christmas 2012 when she was 10 and he was 12, it was reported. Yesterday, the new mother went to a register office to register the birth with her own mother and another woman.

A source told The Sun: ‘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.’
Should the mother be blamed for having not discouraged or prevented her daughter who is a minor from being involved in a sexual relationship?