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It is the Romanian Rifca Stanescu, who was 23 years old when she saw her daughter, Maria, just 11, give birth to the boy Ion, in 2009. Gypsy and resident of the village of Investi, Rifca challenged her family to run away with the jewelry seller Ionel Stanescu, when he was 11 years old. The following year, she was already pregnant. And history ended up repeating itself: although Rifca asked Maria to finish her studies, the girl preferred to get married. Her son, Ion, now 2 years old, is already promised to an 8-year-old girl! “I’m happy to be a grandmother, but I would like another life for Maria – and another life for me”, said Rifca to The Sun tabloid. Indeed, teenage pregnancy is no joke: according to the Brazilian NGO Visão Mundial, every day, in the In Brazil, nine children of teenage mothers die before reaching 1 year of age – which is equivalent to 20% of child deaths in the country.