12-year-old girl gives birth in Italy
Rome, Nov 21 (IANS/AKI) A 12-year-old girl has given birth to a baby boy in southern Italy whose father is a 13-year-old classmate, the Quotidiano italiano online newspaper reports. Doctors delivered the 3 kg baby boy last week by Caesarian section in a private clinic in the city of Bari, the paper said. The children's families are said to be middle-class and decided they wanted to keep the baby. Children in Italy are having ***** younger and younger, the Puglia region's guarantor for minors, said Rosi Paparella, calling the Bari case "an alarm bell". Paparella blamed the problem of children having children on inadequate ***** education in schools and at home, the ready availability of pornography and a lack of parental supervision. "I believe we urgently need to roll out at national level new courses to remedy education backwardness," said Paparella.
