Why do we call it “making love”?
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A Romanian Gypsy woman whose 10-year-old daughter just gave birth in Spain says she's delighted to have a new granddaughter and doesn't understand why the birth has shocked anyone -- let alone become an international sensation.
Spanish authorities have released few details about the case to protect the girl's privacy.
But in comments published Wednesday, her mother told reporters the baby's father is a 13-year-old boy who is still in Romania and is no longer going out with her daughter.
The 10-year-old girl and her baby daughter plan to stay in Spain because the young couple separated, said the girl's mother. She identified herself only as Olimpia and appeared to be in her 30s but did not give her age.
She also said she didn't understand the attention the case was generating because she and her daughter are Romanian Gypsies, or Roma, and their custom is to allow girls to marry young even though that's against the law in Romania.
"That's the way we get married," the girl's mother told reporters Tuesday outside the modest apartment building in the southern town of Lebrija where the family lives.
The girl moved to Spain about three weeks ago, her mother said, and her baby was born in a public hospital last week in the nearby city of Jerez de la Frontera. There were no complications during the birth, and the 10-year-old and her baby are doing fine, her mother said
This brings u many debates over many different topics: Premarital sex, age of consent, when it is too young to have sex, girls hitting puberty at an ever decreasing age, Gypsy populations / discrimination in Europe, can / should the father be held responsible for child support (when he does come of age), can a child retroactively be held responsible for actions done as a child?. I don’t even know where to start. I wonder if the parents still watch cartoons…
by: Don Caldwell
(ORIGINAL LINK) Mom in Spain Happy That Her 10-Year-Old Gave Birth - FoxNews.com
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