# Earliest Age of Pregnancy?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-age-of-pregnancy/157568
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [February 26, 2003, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-age-of-pregnancy/157568 "2003-02-26T04:50:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@JungleLove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JungleLove)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2003, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-age-of-pregnancy/157568/1 "2003-02-26T04:50:16Z")
We were discussing this at work the other day…
What is the world record for the youngest girl who has become pregnant and/or has had a child?
I figured that this statistic wouldn’t be listed in the Guinness Book of World Records & after checking did not see a listing for it…
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### Author:  [@The\_Calculus\_of\_Logic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Calculus_of_Logic)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2003, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-age-of-pregnancy/157568/2 "2003-02-26T04:52:58Z")
http://youngest\_mother.tripod.com/
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### Author:  [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2003, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-age-of-pregnancy/157568/3 "2003-02-26T07:23:12Z")
For completeness, according to this [site](http://www.sexualrecords.com/WSRprev.html):
Youngest father: 12
Oldest mother: 63 yr. 9 mo.
Oldest father: 93 yr. 10 mo.
Youngest grandmother: 17
Youngest grandfather: 29
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### Author:  [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2003, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-age-of-pregnancy/157568/4 "2003-02-26T07:33:24Z")
In the first “Believe it or Not” compilation book, there is an item about a Chinese couple, both aged five, who had a healthy boy around the turn of the century. I think BION is generally reliable.
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### Author:  [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2003, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-age-of-pregnancy/157568/5 "2003-02-26T13:26:06Z")
Well, I did see a headline on various newspapers and such in the last week about a Nigerian girl, I believe it was, who aborted at about 4 months after being raped. The girl is 9.
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### Author:  [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2003, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-age-of-pregnancy/157568/6 "2003-02-26T13:26:56Z")
Nicaraguan, actually. Horrible story. ☹
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### Author:  [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2003, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-age-of-pregnancy/157568/7 "2003-02-26T15:33:46Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by zoogirl \*
> \*\*In the first “Believe it or Not” compilation book, there is an item about a Chinese couple, both aged five, who had a healthy boy around the turn of the century. I think BION is generally reliable. \*\*
If they are going by Chinese age system (you are born aged 1) that couple would be four years old by our western reckoning.
::eek:: either way.
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### Author:  [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2003, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-age-of-pregnancy/157568/8 "2003-02-26T16:42:00Z")
Who are the fathers of the babies born to babies?
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### Author:  [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2003, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/earliest-age-of-pregnancy/157568/9 "2003-02-26T17:22:39Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Duke \*
> \*\*Nicaraguan, actually. Horrible story. ☹ \*\*
You’re right. Wrong continent. As I said, I didn’t read the story, just the headlines.