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This is a list of youngest parents which documents cases in which individuals became parents at exceptionally early ages, typically before the onset of adolescence. Such cases are rare and often attract medical, legal, and social attention due to the significant health risks and ethical considerations involved. This list is not comprehensive and only includes records or other historically notable cases.
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Occurrence of pre-teen parenthood
Available data indicates that pre-teen pregnancy is significantly rarer than teen pregnancy. A UNICEF study of Thailand between 2004–2013 found 938 registered births from mothers aged 10–12, compared to 28,605 from mothers aged 13–14.[1] The CDC recorded the 2016 birth rate of girls aged 10–12 in the United States as 0.11 per 10,000, compared to 1.80 for age 13 and 9.30 for age 14.[2]
Youngest mothers
Lina Medina
Lina Medina, a Peruvian girl, became the youngest confirmed mother in history when she gave birth to her son Gerardo on 14 May 1939 aged 5 years, 7 months, and 21 days.[3][4] Based on the medical assessments of her pregnancy, she was four years old when she became pregnant, which was biologically possible due to precocious puberty.[5] The father was not conclusively determined.[3]
Yelizaveta "Liza" P.
In 1934, a girl named Yelizaveta "Liza" P. from Soviet Ukraine gave birth at 6 years old after being raped by her maternal grandfather.[6] The baby, a girl, died in childbirth due to an umbilical cord problem though Liza survived. Her fate afterwards is unknown. Some sources incorrectly state her last name was Gryshchenko;[7] this was in fact the name of the doctor who delivered the baby.[8][9]
Unnamed girl ("H.")
On 18 March 1932, a girl known only as H., who was 6 years and 7 months old according to government records (though her father gave her age as 7 years) gave birth to a healthy baby girl in Delhi, India. The girl fully recovered and was able to nurse the baby for nine months.[10]
Other notable cases
There have been multiple documented instances of girls giving birth at 8 years old.[11] One of the most notable historical cases was Swiss girl Anna Mummenthaler who gave birth in 1759; reportedly the father was her uncle.[11]
Youngest fathers
Unlike the record for the youngest mother, the record for the youngest confirmed father has not been definitively published.
Hsi family
In 1910, a 9-year-old boy in China was reported to have fathered a child with an 8-year-old girl. These are considered the youngest recorded parents in combined age.[12][13] According to a 1957 Ripley's publication, the family name was Hsi and they were farmers in Amoy (Xiamen).[14]
Alberto S.
In 2015, a boy from the Mexican state of Chiapas fathered a child at 11 years old. The boy had been sold by his parents to another family at 10 years old in exchange for some cattle, and he was forced to live with a 16-year-old girl who became the mother of his child. Telemundo stated he "could be the youngest father in the world".[15]
Other notable cases
In 2001, state records showed that the youngest father in Illinois was 10 years old,[16] and in 2009, that the youngest father in North Dakota was 11 years old.[17] However, further information about these cases is not available.
There have been several documented instances of 12-year-old boys fathering children, with notable examples including Sean Stewart from the United Kingdom in 1998[18] and a boy from Kerala, India in 2017.[19]
Youngest grandmothers
Mum-Zi
Mum-Zi (born c. 1875–1876) was a Nigerian girl who is said to have been the youngest known grandmother in history, at 17 years old.[20][21][22]
The first English language source that is known to have reported on Mum-Zi was a syndicated Ripley's Believe It or Not! newspaper feature in September 1929.[23][24] The story was published with a few additional details in "The New Believe It or Not!" in 1931, Ripley's second Believe It or Not volume.[25][26] Subsequent sources about her life have contained similar information as Ripley's accounts.
According to the story, Mum-Zi was from the island of Calabar in Nigeria. At the age of seven, she was forced to join the harem of the island's ruler, Chief Akkiri, and shortly after became pregnant.[27] She gave birth in August 1884 at age eight years and four months to a healthy baby girl.[27][28][29] Mum-Zi's daughter was also forced into the harem and gave birth at eight or nine years old (sources vary, with Ripley saying nine in the original 1929 article, and eight in subsequent books), making Mum-Zi a grandmother at age 17.[20][30][31] Few additional details about her are known besides that she was raised Muslim.[32]
Rifca Stanescu
In 2011, a Romanian woman named Rifca Stanescu became a grandmother at age 23. A member of the Romani community, she married a 13-year-old boy when she was 11 and gave birth at age 12. Her daughter Maria subsequently married at age 10 against her mother's wishes and gave birth at age 11.[33] Some sources have described her and not Mum-Zi as the youngest grandmother in the world.[34]