Becoming a parent is the best feeling in the world. With that, comes the responsibility of a newborn who is totally dependent on you. But, what if you become a parent when you yourself are a child? These are the youngest fathers from around the world and their ages will leave you shocked.
Being a parent is not an easy task. Amongst the joy of having a baby, comes the stress of handling all the responsibilities that accompany it.
More often than not, these tasks scare people and hence they delay having a baby till the time they are absolutely mature enough to handle the same.
When you think of new parents, you usually think of a couple in their late twenties or thirties carrying a baby on their lap or in their hands. What if I told you that there are many situations throughout the world when the father is just in his teens? Yes, you read that correctly. There have been numerous situations throughout the world when the father became a parent while he was just in his teens or even younger.
Here are the top 5 fathers who became a parent when they were at an age of going to school and playing around with friends.
#1. Sean and Emma
Sean Stewart, the UK’s youngest father, is the little boy in this photograph. Sean Stewart, a 12-year-old British citizen, is the father of Emma Webster, his 15-year-old next-door neighbor.
Sean’s mother allowed him to miss school on the day Emma was supposed to give birth. When Emma gave birth to Ben Louis on January 20, 1998, she was surrounded by her parents, Ray and Shirley, as well as Sean’s mother, Theresa.
But unfortunately, things did go wrong and Sean and Emma are no longer in contact. When asked three years ago about Sean, Emma said: ‘I have not seen Sean for three or four years and he has not seen Ben since then. I am married now and have a nice family. Ben is doing well at school. We just want to get on with our lives. I don’t know where Sean is or what he is doing.’
#2. Alfie And Chantelle
Really, Even I Thought That This Girl Child Is Boy’s Sister. So, you also got confused just the way we did. No, this baby is the daughter of these two, and as is evident the age gap is too huge to ignore.
Baby-faced Alfie Patten, 13 made headlines around the world when he became a father to his 15-year-old girlfriend Chantelle Steadman’s baby.
Chantelle chose against an abortion after finding she was pregnant since she didn’t believe in it. Their baby Maisie Roxanne weighed 7lb 3oz. Alfie was so unprepared for parenthood that he claimed he had no idea how much diapers cost.
#3. James And Sarah
James Sutton was just 12-years-old when he got his 16-year-old girlfriend Sarah Drinkwater pregnant – with twins! Most thought James and Sarah would be unable to cope due to their young ages.
But eight years later he and Sarah are still together and own their own home. As well as the twin girls the couple had when they were teens, they also have a two-year-old daughter.
#4. Shem And Tia
Shem Davies was just 14 when he became a father for the first time. Now his 14-year-old daughter Tia has repeated history after having a baby girl just a week before her 15th birthday.
At 29, Shem is now Britain’s youngest granddad. Unemployed Shem, who split up from Tia’s mum just three months after Tia was born, said he was “absolutely delighted” at the news, he was to be a grandad.
#5. Kordeza And Jeliazko
Kordeza began dating Jeliazko Dimitrov, 19 when she was just 11 years old. However, she fell pregnant, and the two of them were forced to marry soon after their kid was born.
Her family was ecstatic and put together a Roma wedding, so the baby would be born in a “real family.” But Kordeza pre-wedding jitters caused her to go and into early labour.
On the second day of her wedding party and she was rushed to the hospital dressed in her wedding dress. She gave birth with 19-year-old husband Jeliazko Dimitrov at her side,
“I’m not going to play with toys any more – I have a new toy now,” Kordeza says.
“She is so beautiful, I love her. Violeta is the child and I must grow up. I am not going back to school – I am a mother now.”
