'We were young and daft' Dad-of-22 Noel Radford defends getting wife Sue pregnant at 13 when he was 17 | 5AR7Q00 | 2024-03-01 07:08:01
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THERE isn't a proper time to start out a household, with most couples agonising over the choice for months – if not years.
But mother and father of Britain's largest family Sue and Noel Radford had a relatively totally different start, as the couple came upon they have been pregnant once they have been simply teens.
Many years on, 53-year-old Noel has spoken concerning the moment he found he was going to be a dad aged just 17.
Whilst most lads his age have been planning weekends away, he and then-13-year-old Sue have been figuring out the way to change nappies and put together prams.
Sue, now 48, was three years under the age of the consent on the time, however Noel has revealed there was "no knock on the door" from authorities relating to her pregnancy.
Again in 1989, and because the regulation is as we speak, it is an offence for anybody to have any sexual activity with an individual beneath the age of 16.
Nevertheless, the Crown Prosecution Service doesn't all the time pursue prosecutions towards teenagers in these circumstances.
It's still unlawful for an individual aged 18 or over to have any sexual exercise with a person youthful than 16.
Sue and Noel have been in a loving relationship on the time of their pregnancy, which has blossomed right into a 31 yr marriage.
But as they released their new guide, The Radfords: Making Life Rely, Noel has addressed the criticism they face and defended beginning a household at such a younger age.
"We have been each youngsters," he penned. "It was not as if I used to be 10 or 15 years older than Sue.
"For a lot of people, though, things are simply black and white and you're tarnished with the identical brush as other individuals in completely totally different situations.
"We have been young and we have been daft.
"But we needed to continue as a couple."
As they turned TV personalities with a number of documentaries about their massive brood, the speculation about their early lives collectively grew – especially as Sue had been beneath the age of consent at the time.
Having both been adopted, the couple have been eager to boost their infant along with Noel even dropping out of school and working in a supermarket to help his family.
<!-- End of Brightcove Player --> In the meantime, Sue was homeschooled briefly before returning for yr 10 and finished her GCSEs.
They even obtained particular permission from the vicar to marry in 1992 when Sue was 17, together with her dad making the request on the teenager's behalf.
Despite how young they have been, the couple also weren't in hassle with the authorities either.
"There was no knock on the door saying I was in massive hassle," Noel joked, although he did admit that Sue's teen being pregnant was logged by medics on the time.
"I feel somebody, someplace might have needed to report it, the physician perhaps, however there weren't any repercussions," the pie shop owner defined, quipping that it was 'right down to your mums and dads' back then.
While the household have loved their fame, their uncommon start has made them the goal of trolls which have 'affected their youngsters' – notably their eldest, Chris.
Noel revealed: "A few of the comments from individuals have been brutal – that I ought to have been arrested and issues like that. Regardless that I was just 17 – nonetheless a child, including in the eyes of the regulation.
"Nevertheless it doesn't hassle me. Individuals will say what they like. I don't care what they say."
"There has been a number of concentrate on it and, in a means, it was in all probability worse for us than when it truly happened," he candidly admitted, including: "So many people have given their opinions."
The couple at the moment are grandparents to 14 youngsters because of some of their brood also having youngsters younger.
Their seventh child Millie welcomed her first youngster Ophelia Jo, three, aged 19 in 2020.
The 21-year-old has since welcomed a son named Chester Bleu, one, and Elodie, 5 months.
The couple now have 22 youngsters and have welcomed 13 grandchildren[/caption]
The couple have released a brand new guide which provides an insight into family life[/caption]
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