11-Year-Old Gives Birth... On Her Wedding Day

It's not just you - I think it's too young by years, as do many people.

I know that parenthood at a very young age can work out fine if there is an extended family, e.g. the grandparents actually raise the child, but it seems very wrong to me.

Which, of course, is why it's normal to regard anyone under 18 as a young child, or even an infant, and to explicitly say so, with no distinction being made between a baby and an adolescent.

puberty in America begins around the age of 10, when it was 12.5 only 8-10 years ago. Puberty is beginning earlier and earlier, due partially to better nutrition and health care in this country.

the problem with it is that 10-year-old girls do not at all know how to handle themselves around boys, or judge the future consequences of their actions--their brains are just not developed enough (and I'm right about this, so do your research before you come back at me).

I don't know about other people, but I certainly don't like seeing little 11-year-old girls running around in belly shirts, booty shorts, and a pound of makeup, looking like 18-year-old hookers--that's just inviting the attention of pedophiles.

She's not entirely wrong.

Strictly speaking, it isn't paedophilia. Strictly speaking, a child is a person who has not yet started puberty. So she can't be a child, so this can't be paedophilia.

Keeping people ignorant for as long as possible doesn't really help regarding exposure to the corruptions of society.

But that's not what I was talking about. I was talking about ignoring aging, including the complete denial of the existence of adolescence, that's normal in the west and apparently becoming more extreme. The complexity of reality reduced to a silly fantasy of only two states of existence (infant and adult) and a magic age at which everyone suddenly flips from one to the other. I've even seen it taken as far as people regarding adults, people with voting rights and suchlike, as children.