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9 Year Old Girl Gives Birth To Baby
News Type: Event — Seeded on Thu Mar 1, 2007 9:41 AM EST
Article Source: news.asiaone.comadvertisement
A nine-year-old Singaporean student, who did not realise she was pregnant, gave birth to a boy after it became too late for her to abort the baby. Her horrified mother found out that her daughter was six-month pregnant when she took her to a doctor for what she thought was a urine infection. By that time, it was too late for the girl to go for abortion.
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{"commentId":560489,"authorDomain":"scottedwards"}
HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE????
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- 1 vote
#1 - Thu Mar 1, 2007 9:42 AM EST{"commentId":560564,"authorDomain":"Juliet"}
there is an even more impossible but true story of a FIVE year old girl having a baby, and her first blood (menarche) was at eight months old
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":560519,"authorDomain":"indecent"}
They've had kids as young as 5 give birth to children.
Puberty often starts between 8 and 14 - so had she been an "early bloomer" than a victim of rape or incest, its perfectly possible.
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- 5 votes
#2 - Thu Mar 1, 2007 10:02 AM EST{"commentId":560568,"authorDomain":"elvo86"}
Wow... this is actually about something that happened three years ago. I wonder why such a long delay in hitting the news.
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#3 - Thu Mar 1, 2007 10:44 AM EST{"commentId":560670,"authorDomain":"brashmonkey"}
"The shocking case was made public at a seminar on youth relationships organised by Tamil cultural group Narpani Peravi and Republic Polytechnic last Saturday and was reported in Tamil Murasu on Sunday."
That's why it's in the news now. I am surprised, though, that it wasn't picked up/leaked out when it originally happened. I imagine they worked to keep the story suppressed given the conditions (age, family social status).
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":560864,"authorDomain":"vikibabbles"}
Girls, and boys, have been hitting puberty earlier and earlier. There's all kinds of reasons for this, some pointing to the consumption of foods with growth hormones.
My question is: what the hell is a 9 year old girl doing having sex with her boyfriend? What's a 9 year old girl doing having a boyfriend? Have I been living in lala land? Is this standard practice? Because it's not standard practice where I live. At least, I hope it's not. I guess I'd better have yet another long, uncomfortable talk with my 9 year old son and his 11 year old sister.
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- 5 votes
#4 - Thu Mar 1, 2007 1:24 PM EST{"commentId":560882,"authorDomain":"elvo86"}
You probably should.
The things I hear coming from middle schoolers these days in our small city is quite shocking.
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":560883,"authorDomain":"elvo86"}
gah....
are quite shocking...
{"commentId":560883,"threadId":"80915","contentId":"592804","authorDomain":"elvo86"}
- 1 vote
{"commentId":560944,"authorDomain":"vikibabbles"}
I've had the talks, I have. I hated every minute of it. But I keep having them.
My kids are probably starting to think I have so me kind of obsession with discussing sexual things with young children. They'll probably report me to the authorities for being a pervert, and I'll probably go to jail.
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":560985,"authorDomain":"elvo86"}
lol
I say that's a good policy. I fully expect my children to think the same thing someday...
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":561418,"authorDomain":"gwenny"}
I've had the talks, I have. I hated every minute of it. But I keep having them.
Just let them know that YOU have sex, that'll break 'em of wanting to do it. I promise. ::evil laugh::
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":561024,"authorDomain":"allenellis"}
I heard of something like this happening in the 20's or 30's. The parents raised the two kids as siblings.
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- 1 vote
#5 - Thu Mar 1, 2007 2:58 PM EST{"commentId":561129,"authorDomain":"brianca"}
Even though it's a tragic story, and I hope there is some sort of support system in place, I comment because of the spin of the story "it was too late to abort", [but obviously that would have been the solution].
Why kill the baby? It's not his or her "fault" to be in this situation... does not it deserve to live as much as another baby born to, say, a 26 year old?
With regards to VikiBabbles' entry, it may not be that the girl even has a boyfriend - especially in Asia- it may be just as likely that she was sold for sex, or a victim of rape or incest (which, though truly violent, doesn't impact the child's inherent right to retain his or her life). A truly sad story, but perhaps this young girl and her child will be able to have happy, good lives.
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- 2 votes
#6 - Thu Mar 1, 2007 3:40 PM EST{"commentId":561137,"authorDomain":"elvo86"}
It did say her boyfriend in the article...
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- 5 votes
{"commentId":561579,"authorDomain":"vikibabbles"}
From the article:
The primary three student, who comes from a well-to-do family and lives in a private landed property, was made pregnant by her boyfriend from the same school back in 2004. She gave her baby boy up for adoption soon after giving birth. The child would be about three years old now.
I'd go out on a limb and guess that the well-to-do parents were worried about the stigma of their 9 year old having a baby, and how that would affect their reputation.
And, whether this girl had gone through puberty or not, she's still 9 years old. Carrying and birthing a child is emotionally AND physically dangerous at that age. And the 9 year old didn't ask to be in that situation either. She is much to young to have made a conscious, informed decision to have sex.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":562195,"authorDomain":"finalcut"}
I have to agree with Viki - it was probably ridiculously dangerous for the girl to bring the baby to term and deliver it. If, by some crazy freakish situation occurred and my daughter were to get pregnant at 9 (man, do I hope I never have to deal with this!) I would not hesitate to help her get an abortion.
To me the life that is already walking around living is more important to save than to risk them both for the chance of bringing the pregnancy to term. I'm not much of a fan of Russian roulette either.
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":563155,"authorDomain":"gwenny"}
by some crazy freakish situation occurred and my daughter were to get pregnant at 9 (man, do I hope I never have to deal with this!) I would not hesitate to help her get an abortion.
But the anti-choice folks don't care about the living, breathing children! I posed this very problem for a man being interviewed by the press at an anti-choice rally. (I was part of a counter-rally of pro-choice folks.) The man had just told the reporter that even a rape or incest victim should not be allowed to abort. I told the man that my father started molesting me when I was only 9. If I had gotten pregnant, it would have probably killed me. He laughed and said, "Then we would have been rid of both of you."
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":563306,"authorDomain":"finalcut"}
ouch that is harsh as hell. I'm sorry you had to go through both the initial horror and then this asshat's response to it. Sorry for the profanity but I can't think of a better word to describe my opinion of him.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":563313,"authorDomain":"elvo86"}
That's horrible. I hate people who take "pro-life" that far.
I'm also of the opinion that abortion should be legal in cases of rape, incest, and danger to the health of the mother, but I'd rather not see abortions otherwise. Legislating this may or may not be a good thing, but I think it'd be much more beneficial to have all the money that's spent on the abortion debate right now spent on promoting adoption as a better alternative instead.
I once heard a very powerful talk given by someone whose mother had been raped, yet carried her and put her up for adoption.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":563341,"authorDomain":"finalcut"}
I agree with you almost to the T Elliot, particularly in terms of the Adoption angle.
The way adoption works in this country is so often screwed up. Agencies screw up the chances of kids getting homes and some of the laws scare off people from trying to adopt US born kids.
There are so many kids in the US that need to be adopted that are passed over it's a shame.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":561435,"authorDomain":"babar"}
interesting article. i enjoyed it.... thanks!
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#7 - Thu Mar 1, 2007 7:11 PM EST{"commentId":561507,"authorDomain":"alphadog"}
Interesting for sure -- and, assuming this is a valid report, alarming news about parenting today.
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- 1 vote
#8 - Thu Mar 1, 2007 8:15 PM EST{"commentId":561847,"authorDomain":"stolte-sawa"}
Yikes. Is the "boyfriend" an "early bloomer" too?
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- 3 votes
#9 - Fri Mar 2, 2007 12:29 AM EST{"commentId":1218533,"authorDomain":"cogent"}
I believe that president clinton had the right idea that abortion should be outlawed but not at the risk of the mother. The uber pro-life people had the chance to make abortion outlawed if they had just added the clause that mothers whose lives were in danger had the option of abortion. They didn't take it! I am pro-life. But whats the point if you are going to make a law that would potentially kill women who are pregnant. That brings the 9 year old back into play. She could have died! That's awful. But I don't think that abortion is any solution for a healthy person who (un)willingly got pregnant at a knowledgeable age. Incest often time produce babies that have serious problems genetically and are often time?? from relatively young kids, abortion would then be a good idea. But when a 15 year old gets pregnant, and lets face it, they know the risks, then they should carry to term. An abortion is far worse, I think, than having a baby and giving it up for adoption. Abortions are emotional bombs that tend to go off years later. A very young kid can 'forget', but teens and young adults don't have the mind set enough to understand what they are setting themselves up for with an abortion so much as an adoption.
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#10 - Mon Nov 26, 2007 11:37 PM EST{"commentId":1507442,"authorDomain":"bernadetteboyd"}
I'm so mad about this. Today I read so many articles regarding girls from the age of 5 to 16 giving birth and the parents apparently don't know that they are pregnant. BS If your child's belly is blowing up out of no where--hello! There is something wrong. Where are the mothers of these 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 , 10 year old girls. I'm the mother of two daughters myself, and especially at these ages it is no way in heck I would not have known that my child is pregnant especially at the late stages of the pregnancies I read about. As for the moms wake up protect your children. As for the men get the HATCHET and then give them life in prison and placed them where the are sure to be repeatedly raped.
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- 1 vote
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