• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    the fact that the father is probably also a 12 year old

    Please don’t spread misinformation, your “fact” is flat-out wrong.

    In fact, the father is probably much older… and very often 20+

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        10 hours ago

        This data is from the 90s. But here’s some facts.

        https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10227344/

        Adult fathers, responsible for 26.7% of births to very young adolescents, were a mean of 8.8 years older than the mother. The risk factors for adult compared to adolescent paternity were as follows: father’s educational attainment of at least 3 years below that considered adequate for his age [adjusted odds ratio (AOR) = 8.34], father’s (AOR = 2.46) or mother’s (AOR = 1.36) educational attainment 1-2 years below that considered adequate for their age, mother’s birthplace outside the United States (AOR = 3.12), and father’s Hispanic ethnicity (AOR = 1.60) or African-American race (AOR = 1.50).