17 yrs old girl has 7 kids
By kishusia
@kishusia (1066)
India
January 22, 2009 3:41am CST
Argentine teenager Pamela Villarruel poses with her seven children outside her parents' home in the town of Leones in Cordoba Province, northern Argentina, May 11, 2008. (Pic courtesy: AP)
Pamela, 17, bore all seven children in just three pregnancies, having her first boy in 2005 when she was 14 and the other six girls in two deliveries of triplets in the following two years.
Pamela and her children currently sleep in the living room of her mother Magdalena who supports them all by house cleaning.
The father of Pamela's first son abandoned them, the father of the first set of triplets was forced out of the house by the family for beating her, and Pamela refuses to identify the father of the more recent triplets.
Magdalena requested to have her daughter's fallopian tubes tied to avoid any further pregnancies, but was denied as Argentine law prohibits the procedure to be done on minors.
This is really outrageous.
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4 responses
@maximax8 (31046)
• United Kingdom
13 Feb 09
It is amazing that a seventeen year old had seven kids. If she had single babies she might have three children. She had a boy, then two sets of triplet girls. That is amazing and I hope that she will not have anymore children. She has enough now I feel. I think the house sounds crowded and I am not surprised her mum wants her teenage daughter to be be made so she can't get pregnant again. The Argentine government will probably only accept an application if she is grown up. Then it will be her choice not her mum's.
@cherriemae (3370)
• Philippines
23 Jan 09
Wow, i was surprised when i read this discussion, and it's really real! Poor kids and the mom. Hope that she will not allow pregnancy again because she's capable of having triplets..Oh my god, i can't really imagine my self in that situation. With my first baby, i promised not to have another pregnancy again bacause it's not that easy, the pain of labor, i can't imagine. Also how can she able to manage with that 7 kids? The education? the food? the milk for the babies? I will pray for her and for the babies..
@katsmeow1213 (28716)
• United States
23 Jan 09
I feel badly for the poor kids. They're the ones who are going to suffer. I also think the mother is enabling it in a way. If the girl got pregnant at 14, how did she allow her to get pregnant a 2nd time? I would have locked her in her room and never let her out after that! Those poor kids.
