25 year old grandma

Ttimes3 · March 2011

MIL was watching Regis and Kelly, while I was getting ready for work, and I overheard them discussing this story. Indifferent

https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2011/03/07/2011-03-07_romanian_woman_who_became_a_granny_at_23_claims_to_be_worlds_youngest.html

stillwaiting12 · March 2011

Whoah! A great grandmother at 40? Seriously?!? And engaged at 8? What is wrong with these people?!

Ttimes3 · March 2011

Silly gypsies.

sprads · March 2011

AYFKM?! That is crazy....also it reminds me of that Criminal Minds episode....

robnnoel · March 2011

Geez, that really sounds like something to brag about.

Jessica&Brett · March 2011

Wow. Indifferent

mrs.george2be04 · March 2011

Admittedly, I didn't read the article, but I can tell you that my great-grandma was a grandma at 29 and my grandma because a grandma at 34. That's how they rolled in Casey County, KY back in the day.

Ttimes3 · March 2011

Maybe it's just me, but pregnant @ 15-16 seems like a WORLD away from being pregnant at 11. No?

Moesten · March 2011

Ttimes3:
Maybe it's just me, but pregnant @ 15-16 seems like a WORLD away from being pregnant at 11. No?

Agreed! Although I would venture to say neither is desirable.

Even in cultures that marry and reproduce young I would feel less icky if 17 to 20 was the mother's age at first pregnancy. That still makes for grandparenthood in the 30's though. Wow.

mrs.george2be04 · March 2011

Ttimes3:
Maybe it's just me, but pregnant @ 15-16 seems like a WORLD away from being pregnant at 11. No?

I (thankfully) have not met an 11 year old pregnant girl, but some of the 15, 16, 17, even 18 year olds I come across . . .the thought of them being responsible for a child scares the shizz out of me.

That being said there's a few I come across in their 20's and 30's that seem ill-equipped. But that's a story for another day.

Ttimes3 · March 2011

mrs.george2be04:

Ttimes3:
Maybe it's just me, but pregnant @ 15-16 seems like a WORLD away from being pregnant at 11. No?

I (thankfully) have not met an 11 year old pregnant girl, but some of the 15, 16, 17, even 18 year olds I come across . . .the thought of them being responsible for a child scares the shizz out of me.

That being said there's a few I come across in their 20's and 30's that seem ill-equipped. But that's a story for another day.

Agreed. Agreed. Agreed.

To be clear - I am, in no way, implying that older = better parent; however, I just can't imagine. 11 - physically, mentally, emotionally? No words.

mrs.george2be04 · March 2011

Ttimes3:
mrs.george2be04:

Ttimes3:
Maybe it's just me, but pregnant @ 15-16 seems like a WORLD away from being pregnant at 11. No?

I (thankfully) have not met an 11 year old pregnant girl, but some of the 15, 16, 17, even 18 year olds I come across . . .the thought of them being responsible for a child scares the shizz out of me.

That being said there's a few I come across in their 20's and 30's that seem ill-equipped. But that's a story for another day.

Agreed. Agreed. Agreed.

To be clear - I am, in no way, implying that older = better parent; however, I just can't imagine. 11 - physically, mentally, emotionally? No words.

Oh I know. And as I admitted, I just started chiming in without reading the article. I literally could not have gotten pregnant at 11--I didn't even start my period until I was 13. I cannot wrap my head around it.

KYmama9286 · March 2011

I cant say much about it but I will say that at a previous job I had we had a case presentation of a client that had a parent who was a grandparent at age 23...

The client was 11, her mother had her at age 11 and she was pregnant and about to have a baby....talk about SHOCKING Indifferent Especially considering at the time I was only 21 and had no children and the thought of children was overwhelming let alone the thought of being a GRAND parent...wowza! Very sad....

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