Man who fathered child at 14 to become UK's youngest grandad at 29

A man will become the UK’s youngest ever grandfather when his 14-year-old daughter gives birth this summer. The 29-year-old was just 14 when he became a father himself in 1996. But he admitted he was “fuming” to discover his daughter, who has just started her GCSEs, is 11 weeks’ pregnant.

The dad – who has not been named to protect his young daughter – from South Wales, said: “It’s like history repeating itself. I quite like the idea of being the youngest grandad in Britain, but at the same time I’m fuming that she is pregnant. I know myself how tough it is being a teenage parent and now she has to go through the same thing. However, we’re all going to stand by her and we will welcome the little one into the family.



“I don’t feel like a grandad – I’ve not got grey hair and my hearing is top notch.” He added that his 47-year-old mother cannot wait to become a great-grandma. “She was 18 when she had me,” he said. “She was shocked when I told her the news, but she is happy now.

“Her own mum is alive, and so too is her grandmother, who will become a great-great-great grandmother. There can’t be too many families with six generations alive at the same time.” The UK’s youngest grandmother was 26 when her daughter, 12, gave birth at their home in Rotherham, South Yorks, in 1999.