Rifca Stanescu (pictured with grandson, Ion), from the Romanian town of Investi, was 12 years old when she gave birth to her daughter, Maria.
Maria, in turn, had her first child, her son Ion, at age 11.
I am happy to be a grandmother but I wished something else for Maria - and for me
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, in which it’s common for couples to marry and have children at a young age.
