NEWS FLASH!! A ELEVEN YEAR OLD GIRL BECOMES A MOTHER!!

    THIS MORNING I HEARD A STORY THAT SHOULD SCARE THE DAYLIGHTS OUT OF EVERY PARENT WHO HAS A DAUGHTER AGE EIGHT AND UP. SOMEWHERE OUT THERE IN THE HEARTLAND OF AMERICA, A CHILD (AGE 11), GAVE BIRTH TO A CHILD! CAN YOU EVEN WRAP YOUR BRAIN AROUND THIS CONCEPT?!! THIS MEANS SHE WAS JUST TEN YEARS OLD WHEN SHE BECAME SEXUALLY ACTIVE!! APPARENTLY THERE WAS A BOYFRIEND INVOLVED. THANK GOD IT WAS NOT A CASE OF INCEST AND ABUSE, NOT THAT THIS MAKES IT ANY BETTER! 
     LAST WEEK IN CHINA A GIRL AT THE AGE OF NINE GAVE BIRTH! THINK ABOUT THAT FOR A MOMENT. THIS GIRL STARTED HAVING MENSTRUAL PERIODS WEN SHE WAS EIGHT!! I HAVE FAMILY MEMBERS WITH DAUGHTERS IN THAT AGE GROUP!!
      THE COMPLICATIONS THAT GO ALONG WITH A PREGNANCY AT THIS AGE ARE SCARY! A YOUNG GIRLS BODY IS NOT EVEN FULLY DEVELOPED AT THIS AGE. HER BONES ARE STILL GROWING SO IT MAKES NATURAL CHILDBIRTH  ALMOST AN IMPOSSIBILITY. CAESAREAN SECTIONS ARE PRETTY MUCH THE NORM. BABIES BORN TO GIRLS THIS YOUNG USUALLY COME OUT AT A VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT, ( FIVE LBS. AND UNDER). MOST OF THE TIME THE BABY IS BORN LONG BEFORE TERM. 
THEN YOU HAVE HE EMOTIONAL CHALLENGES THAT COME WITH A CHILD HAVING A CHILD! GIRLS AT THIS AGE ARE USUALLY STILL PLAYING WITH DOLLS, WHICH LEADS ME TO THE QUESTION, WILL THIS CHILD OF A CHILD BE TREATED AS IF SHE/HE IS JUST ANOTHER NEW DOLL?! IS THIS YOUNG MOTHER-TO-BE LOOKING FOR LOVE THAT SHE FEELS SHE HAS PERHAPS BEEN MISSING IN HER OWN LIFE?!!
      COUNSELING WILL BE AN ABSOLUTE MUST STARTING EVEN LONG BEFORE THE CHILD IS BORN. THE MOTHER IS GOING TO GO THROUGH SO MANY DIFFERENT EMOTIONAL STAGES, WHAT WITH ALL OF THE HORMONE CHANGES. AS WELL AS JUST GETTING USED TO THE FACT SHE WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANOTHER HUMAN BEING, NOT JUST HERSELF!!  SELFISH TRAITS WILL HAVE TO BE PUT ASIDE. SHE IS GOING TO HAVE TO PUT HER OWN LIFE ON HOLD, AND THEN THERE IS THE BABY ITSELF. AS SOON AS THIS CHILD IS OLD ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND HOW SHE/HE CAME IN TO THIS WORLD IT WILL NEED INTENSIVE COUNSELING ALSO. 
      SO WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE? TEEN PREGNANCY IS ON THE RISE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN YEARS. WHAT DOES THIS SAY ABOUT THE EDUCATION SYSTEM IN SCHOOLS, AS WELL AS IN THE HOME?!! I HOPE PARENTS WILL TAKE NOTE AND LEARN FROM THIS CHILD WHO HAS NOW BECOME A MOTHER! OBVIOUSLY SEX EDUCATION NEEDS A DRASTIC REFORM!