Pregnancy leads to children.. even at age 10

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/03/olimpia-mother-of-10yearo_n_778284.html

Sooo, I just came across this and I really am unsure how to react.  10 year old kid has a healthy baby.  In class last night we were talking about contraception amongst adolescent children, and menarche (onset of a woman's period), and a myriad of other topics relating to when and how children are experiencing sexual and non -sexual behaviors.

Menarche...
Research now a days is linking obesity in children to an earlier onset of menstruation.  A female's body sends chemicals to the brain to start once a certain weight is achieved (approx 107 lbs).  I knew that this age was getting earlier and earlier, but the fact that this girl had a kid at age 10 is really blowing my mind.  They're gypsies in Romania who are not encouraged to educate, and marriage laws aren't enforced... Leading to...?? A child with a child.

When I was 10 years old I was more concerned on whether or not I had practiced my clarinet enough for the week. I admired girls... from a far. The father is age 13.  I barely knew what kissing was (although never experienced at this point), let along how to engage in coitus (I just like that word).

Something needs to be done about the 800,000 teen pregnancies per year (keep in mind that of the 800k, only 500k are born). There is no way around the fact that we are sexual beings and as teenagers (and younger) we can, will, and are experiencing sex.  When I first started buying condoms, the looks that I would get were piercing, causing me to not even want to buy them anymore (although I didn't stop).  Kids should be congratulated for buying condoms, accessing birth control, and practicing safe sex. Parents need to talk to their kids about sex instead of shunning them and taking their birth control away.  Ignorance and intolerance of sexual behavior is how we get in to predicaments where children are raising children. I know I don't have all the answers. In fact, very far from it.  But I think when faux pas become norm, taboo the accepted, the shunned welcomed, the world might look a little different.

.....Just a few thoughts