Ten Year Old Having a Baby

Can you imagine a ten year old girl giving birth? It’s hard to imagine and the thought of it is disturbing. It happened to a ten year old girl in Spain, this girl’s mother who is a Romanian Gypsy is absolutely delighted to be a grandmother and in some cultures certain things are acceptable. How would you feel if your mother let you lose your virginity at age ten and then finding out that you have a baby on the way?
The mother to the ten year old girl who gave birth sees nothing wrong in her daughter having a child. The father of the newborn is only thirteen years old, they both are so young. Their childhood years are completely gone. The mother of the ten year old made a comment to a reporter stating that “she also said she didn't understand the attention the case was generating because she and her daughter are Romanian Gypsies, or Roma, and their custom is to allow girls to marry young even though that's against the law in Romania.”(Associated press 4).
In the United States our laws and our beliefs are different than in other countries. We don’t have arranged marriages and the legal age in the United States is eighteen. With parental consent a sixteen year old can get married according to the Romanian law otherwise eighteen without parental consent. I understand that cultures vary in what they frown upon and what they consider to be acceptable, but I personally would never give permission for my daughter to marry at age sixteen or have a baby at age ten.
It is hard not to find it disturbing when you read about young children already having kids of their own. It’s unfortunate that it happened, although the article doesn’t express how the ten year old girl feels, she could be happy and she could be completely miserable but it is a a big responsibility. It’s a mother’s responsibility to protect her children; being that I came from a different culture than the American culture I do understand how that mother didn’t see anything wrong with her ten year old daughter having a baby but I would never allow my daughter to lose her virginity and age ten and have a baby. Like I said, every culture is different but to me a child should not be having a child of their own.


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