WTF? 10-year-old gives birth in Southern Spain????!!!!

[joeybee12]

http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_SPAIN_CHILD_MOTHER?SITE=NVLAS&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2010-11-02-10-12-27

This is from the insipid right-wing rag the las Vegas Review Journal, so i won't even post a single paragrpagh, just the link, since they're out to get us, the worthless assholes who endorsed angle.

Basicaly, she's from Andalusia, 10, father is a minor, and under spanish law, sex with someone under 13 is child abuse, so there's discussion whether the 10-year-old wil be removed from her parents.

[dipsydoodle]

1. Safe Guardian link here

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/02/10-year-old-gives-birth-spain

So perhaps change your one.

[joeybee12]

2. Thanks...

[bobbolink]

3. Yes, more girls are maturing younger. I knew a 10- year old who was

repeatedly raped by her father, and gave birth at that young age.

They raised him as her brother, which fucked her mind up royally.

I doubt she will ever be emotionally healthy. :(

Some families really suck. So, in relation to the post about have some people had to shut out their families.... sometimes that is the only way.

[Odin2005]

14. It's our diets, puberty in girls is strongly influenced by body fat.

In pre-modern times teen girls would not have enough body fat to start puberty until 15.

Also, for some reason southern European girls tend to enter puberty slightly earlier than northern European girls.

[Nevernose]

4. When I worked for Family & Youth Services

I saw, in my own office, a ten year old who was pregnant with her second child. The grandmother was 22. The girl had developed early, the mom's pimp put her on the street, all had crack addictions. Needless to say, the girl's mother left my office in handcuffs and the girl went to Boy's Town eventually, but I still have nightmares about that kind of stuff.

Shit like that happen every day in every town in America. Horrors that are almost unimaginable are occurring in your next door neighbor's house right now. Damn, I'm depressed now. I should go back to work and not think about these things.

[Odin2005]

15. Ugh, there are no words!

:(

[Speck Tater]

5. I knew a three-year-old who gave birth...

... to the cutest litter of kittens you've ever seen.

[Kalyke]

6. I could have given birth at 10 years old.

I'm 40 now, so this "maturing early" trend must have been going on a while.

Edited to add: I could have physically gotten pregnant, but I still thought boys were pretty yucky at at that age. I had crushes on pop stars and such - people I wouldn't be in close enough proximity to actually sleep with. :)

[petronius]

7. That's the part of Spain that used to be Muslim, you know

:scared:


Sad story; hope the girl is being well-looked after at least, and the infant...

(And yeah, the subject line is intended to be a sarcastic, freeperesque joke.)

[AnArmyVeteran]

8. In the 1980s, an 8 year old Mexican girl had a baby.

I didn't think that was possible, but obviously she had been sexually abused all of her life and that caused her to mature much sooner than nature intended. What kind of creature could harm a child?

[uncommon]

9. :( that is so sad.

I would murder anyone who tried to hurt my daughter.

[AnArmyVeteran]

10. I would too, but I wouldn't consider it murder. No 'human' could do such a hateful act.

[uncommon]

12. Good point. I would certainly cause them to cease being alive.

[uppityperson]

11. Spain allows marriage @ 14, wonder if they allow contraception @ any age?

from Guardian link: "Spain allows marriage, where a judge deems there are exceptional circumstances, at 14 years old."

[Odin2005]

13. 50 years ago a 6yo Peruvuan girl gave birth. She had been raped by her father.

[WillyT]

16. Lina Medina

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Medina