Girl, 11, Gives Birth to Baby Boy in Northeast Hospital

whatcha think said:
Talk with your kids about sex.. DO NOT afraid! Rather than regrets about it when your daughter or son coming to your home and telling you... "MOMMY or DADDY! I'm 3 months pregnant or I'm a daddy".
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Talking to your kids abt sex who just got raped isn't going to help. They will see how it worked after they got raped anyway. :roll:
 
cdaigle430 said:
Looking at this from a glass half full perspective, when she is 32, her baby will be 21, when she is 52 her baby will be 41. Also, because she is so young, she doesn't have to worry about supporting the child financially for quite awhile.

Also, when she is in 12th grade, her child will be in Kindy garten or first grade-cool huh?
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I hope you're kidding.
 
I have heard about girls as young as 6 being pregnant... In cases like this I wonder what kind of man fathered that child. Like what could be in his heart to go after girls so young. I'm sad for the future of this world
 
Kateweb said:
I hope she is
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Sorry, I'm a guy and I'm not condoning this-it's bad parenting. It's just that it happened, there is nothing anyone can do about it now so I wish everyone would stop passing judgement, I merely pointed out some good things that may come out of this in the end.
 
cdaigle430 said:
Sorry, I'm a guy and I'm not condoning this-it's bad parenting. It's just that it happened, there is nothing anyone can do about it now so I wish everyone would stop passing judgement, I merely pointed out some good things that may come out of this in the end.
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Sorry, but I believe the guy who is guilty of sexually abusing this girl should be made accountable. He should NOT be allowed to continue his abusive behavior.

When it comes to harming others and criminal activity, people not only have the right to judge the perps, they have the duty to do so.

The past can't be changed but future damage can be avoided by stopping this guy.
 
An 11-year-old girl in the Northeast recently gave birth to a baby boy, the girl’s family told Fox News. "My daughter and (her) baby are fine, and the baby is absolutely beautiful," said the mother of the 11-year-old girl. The girl and her family are not being named in order to protect the new parent's privacy. According to Dr. Manny Alvarez, managing health editor of FoxNews.com, the girl’s age places her in significant danger. "A very comprehensive approach to her care needs to be instituted early in her pregnancy," Alvarez said. A recent report by the Guttmacher Institute said teen pregnancies in the U.S. were up 3 percent in 2006. But this case is not about a teenager, noted Dr. Abdulla Al-Khan, a leading high-risk obstetrician — it’s about a pre-teen whose body is not yet built to carry a child. "Her body is clearly not defined for pregnancy with its short stature," Al-Khan said. "Her chest is not extensively developed for breast tissue, her bones aren't quite fused, and once you expose a child this young to high amounts of progesterone and especially estrogen, there is (a possibility) that it could halt her growth." Al-Khan said other medical challenges facing a pregnant girl as young as 10 or 11 include: — The pelvis is not defined for natural childbirth; — The vagina could sustain injury during a natural birth; — The patient is at high risk for preeclampsia, a pregnancy condition marked by high blood pressure and protein in the urine, and which can lead to convulsions and multi-system organ failure; — A higher risk of pre-term labor and delivery, which would mean the baby’s size would be compromised, leaving the baby at risk for developmental issues, fetal growth restriction and chromosomal abnormalities; — Higher incidence of stillbirth; — Higher incidence of cholestasis of pregnancy, a condition caused by the blockage of bile, which can lead to stillbirth and placenta issues; — A chance of developing fatty liver, which can be fatal. "The textbooks don’t even tell you how to deal with a 10-year-old; it’s completely different even though we understand the basics," Al-Khan said. Al-Khan said a patient like this would benefit from early intervention and would have to be seen on a weekly basis during the pregnancy to prevent complications. "Think about how difficult a pregnancy is for someone in their 20s or 30s ... the aches, pains, the sleep deprivation," Al-Khan said. "Now imagine it in a child." There are also psychological issues associated with pre-teen pregnancy because a 10-year-old cannot be mentally ready to give birth, Al-Khan said. "This is heart-wrenching because you have a kid whose mental capacities can’t possibly wrap themselves around what it means to be a mother," agreed Dr. Keith Ablow, a psychiatrist and Fox News contributor. "There are so many psychological minefields in store for her. Feelings of guilt, feelings of wanting to nurture another human being, and yet this is all very, very complex and intense when she looks to her own family to essentially support, and if you will, father her child." Ablow pointed out that the girl is dependent on her own family to take care of her, yet she now has a child who is dependent on her. "She has her own life plan, and yet there’s another life that should take precedence," Ablow said. According to the Guttmacher Institute, nearly half of all 15-19 year-olds in the U.S. have had sex at least once. In 2002, some 13 percent of never-married females aged 15-19 had had sex before the age of 15, according to the think tank. Al-Khan said it was likely that the possibility of terminating the baby would have come up in this case, because as sensitive a subject as it is, going through with the pregnancy would be a greater risk than having an abortion. The youngest documented case of a child pregnancy was in 1939 in Lima, Peru, Al-Khan said. Lina Medina was six years old when she became pregnant and gave birth to a baby.
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No where I saw in this article about this 11 year old being sexually abused by a family member nor it mentioned who the father is.

She very well may have gotten pregnant from another child or teen.


Which is why sex education needs to be taught at a young age.
 
Babyblue said:
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(quoted from the OPs link)

No where I saw in this article about this 11 year old being sexually abused by a family member nor it mentioned who the father is.

She very well may have gotten pregnant from another child or teen.


Which is why sex education needs to be taught at a young age.
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I didn't say it was a family member. I said whoever it was. Even if it is another child, the situation can't be ignored and allowed to continue.

Sex "education" doesn't mean anything to a child who isn't mature enough to understand future consequences and the serious life-long impact of following "feelings". Also, it won't stop older predators from intimidating and taking advantage of youngsters.
 
Reba said:
I didn't say it was a family member. I said whoever it was. Even if it is another child, the situation can't be ignored and allowed to continue.

Sex "education" doesn't mean anything to a child who isn't mature enough to understand future consequences and the serious life-long impact of following "feelings". Also, it won't stop older predators from intimidating and taking advantage of youngsters.
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Some have assumed that. Reba, I was not pointing you out.

Educating children about sex and good touches verse Bad touches, means more than you think. Children nowadays are exposed to a lot of sexual contents. Look around. You see it everywhere!!

Not all children or teen will learn from sex education. It does helps to teach them to wait, and know it is ok to tell a trusted grown up if some one is touching them inappropriately.

I feel keeping sex education to be taboo and a hush, hush. thing is more harmful to children and teens, and downright ignorant to do so.

It is like not wanting to educate kids about the dangers of drugs.
 
I am very glad that we started the sex education with my children when they were young. It was an evolving conversation that continues on even now. When they were little we talked about people touching them and who should when and that kind of thing, then it evolved into preparing my daughter for her monthly run and at same time we explained to son about a girls changing body and what boys will go through, then moved into why it's important to not have sex just "willy-nilly" and the importance of a relationship. We also explained that if anyone was to touch them or do anything they are not comfortable with, they were to go to either me or their father. My MIL asked if daughter should be on birth control since she will be 16 next month and daughter shouted "NO! I don't plan on having sex ever. If I get raped, then I will have mom call the police and after the report and all and I get checked at hospital, then I will ask for "morning after" pill." Seems like she understood what we talked about.

I wish more and more parents would do this. Even my nieces and nephews are talking about the "neat feeling" of multiple sex partners and "having fun". That's sad in my opinion. They started this when they were 15, they are now 17, 20, 24 & 24. The 17 y/o and a 24 y/o are my one brother's and the other two belong to my oldest brother.
 
I haven't read whether or not the girl had any sex education. :dunno:
 
Reba said:
I haven't read whether or not the girl had any sex education. :dunno:
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I have not either.

But I have read the statistics of the teen pregnancies in the article that colaborates with this 11 year old mother.

Which is alarming enough to raise this issue.
 
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