Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1880 — Child Mothers. [ARTICLE]

Child Mothers.

A census enumerator in a New Hampshire town found one family where the mother's age was 26 and that of her eldest son 14 years. Inquiry revealed the

fact that the mother was married when 11 years and 6 months old to a man 23 years old. She is a native of Rhode Island, and claims to have been the youngest mother in the State..; The census enumerators of Dyer cotinty, Tenn., found a girl 11 years of age who had given birth to a child.