While we’ve not quite caught up with China’s 9-year-old mother, we’ve at least tied with Bulgaria’s 11-year-old mother for youngest recent child birth after an 11-year-old girl somewhere in the Northeastern United States gave birth to a healthy baby boy. Even America has pregnant 11-year-old kids now, if only because we have to keep up with the international Joneses. Sheesh.
I understand that 11-year-old kids these days aren’t like 11-year-old kids back in my day, but this is just getting crazy. Kids are getting knocked up in elementary school or signing up to colleges at 13; where does this all end?
Will someone do an EEG on my future kid in the womb, then sign him up to go to Harvard because of his father’s Mensa membership? If he gets my broad shoulders and long arms, will he get sent off to Penn State’s linebacker factory or become the University of Kentucky’s next defensive stopper on the wing? At what point do college recruiters start following around LeBron James’ kids?
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