A
12-year-old girl has given birth to her 13-year-old boyfriend's baby - making
them Britain's youngest parents, it was revealed today.
The girl,
whose identity is being protected, 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.
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 ten 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.
It is
thought that social services will now be giving the couple support, although a
health visitor could suffice unless the child is seen as being at risk.
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