Rifca Stanescu, from the town of Investi, was twelve years old when she gave birth to her daughter, Maria. The birth made Rifca a grandmother at age 23, and her mother a great-grandmother at age 40. The family is part of the Romanian traveller community, where it&rsquo;s common for couples to marry and have children at a young age. <img alt="Romanian woman becomes world's youngest grandmother, Hatke news" src="http://images.mid-day.com/2012/oct/young-grandmother.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 332px;" /> Representational picture Indeed, her 2-year-old grandson Ion, is already engaged to an eight-year-old local girl. Apparently, Rifca had also been promised to a boy when she was two years old, but eloped with her now-husband at age 11. &ldquo;I wanted to marry him &hellip; and of course after we had spent the night together then there was no way anyone could separate us,&rdquo; Essential baby quoted her as telling the Sun. A year later, she fell pregnant with Maria, giving birth to another child a few years later. Rifca also revealed that she begged Maria to stay in school and finish her education, but she, too, married young, and got pregnant within six months. &ldquo;I am happy to be a grandmother but I wished something else for Maria - and something else for me,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;I did not try to stop my daughter getting married because this is the tradition, it&rsquo;s what happens,&rdquo; she added.

A woman from Romania became the world's youngest grandmother at the age of 23, when her 11-year-old daughter gave birth to a son, three years ago

Romanian woman becomes world's youngest grandmother at 23

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