How old was the world's youngest father?

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Why: JMo & co. are discussing it in the clinic today.

Answer: Shoot, I can't find anything reliable.

• "a 6 yr old from China" -from raisingkids.co.uk
• "6 year old in the uk in 1864" -from Yahoo! Answers
  
• "The youngest reported parents are that of an eight and a nine year old in China during 1910." -from Answerbag
• "An 8 year old in china, 1910." -from Yahoo! Answers
  

Sean Stewart, 12, was for sure the youngest father in Britain. In 1998, his neighbor Emma Webster, 16, had his baby. (He was 11 when she got pregnant.) Emma said Sean told her they were the same age.

Alfie Patten, 13, was in the news last year for impregnating his girlfriend Chantelle Stedman, 15, when he was just 12.

"I thought it would be good to have a baby - I didn't think about how we'd afford it. I don't really get pocket money. My dad sometimes gives me £10." Alfie, who pledged to leave school as soon as possible to get a job, was convinced he was Maisie's dad as Chantelle had told him she was a virgin.

Turns out Chantelle was a dirty liar (/tramp) - the real father was Tyler Barker, 14.

Source: Various

The More You Know: The youngest mother ever was just 5 years old. In 1939, she gave birth to a 6 lb. boy in a hospital in Lima, Peru. She had been having periods since the age of 3 due to some pituitary disorder. Anyway, the girl's father was temporarily jailed on suspicion of incest, but he was released for a lack of evidence and authorities were never able to determine who fathered the child.