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A man of 29 who is set to become Britain’s youngest grandfather when his teenage daughter gives birth was today criticised for trying to 'cash in' on the pregnancy.
The soon-to-be record breaker was earlier said to be ‘fuming’ that his 14-year-old daughter was 11 weeks pregnant because she was due to start her GCSE courses.
But neighbours said he was in fact celebrating because more state benefits would be given to his family - and said he had bragged about 'making a fortune' on selling his story.
The man - whose identity is being kept a secret to protect his young daughter - is now said to be in negotiations to sell his family's story to a Sunday newspaper.
But before talks with the tabloid had begun, the man 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. She is very young, but she was determined to keep the child. We were not going to force her into doing anything else. We don’t want her to hate us.’
He added: ‘I don’t feel like a grandad. I’ve not got grey hair and my hearing is top notch.’
But a mother in her 30s who lives nearby said: 'He just wants it to be all about him. He should realise how serious it is.
'If it was my daughter pregnant so young I certainly wouldn't be singing about it.'
Speaking from his home in South Wales, the man admitted he became a father back in 1996 when he was just 14.
He said his own mother, who is 47, is excited about the prosepct of being a great-grandmother.
‘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 soon-to-be-grandfather is believed to be unemployed, and is separated from the girl’s mother, who works in a cafe.
She has two other children, and lives with another jobless man on a nearby council estate.
The man’s daughter became pregnant by her 15-year-old boyfriend and is expected to give birth in August.
The pair are both pupils at the same comprehensive school and have been seeing each other for several months.
She announced her pregnancy to friends on Facebook, by updating her status to ‘looking for a pram with the mr’.
The girl says she wants to remain at school until the child is born and then hopes to return to her studies as soon as possible.
Her father claims he is younger than the current record holder for youngest grandfather, Dale Wright, who was also 29 when his child became a parent.
Mr Wright, a digger driver from Warwickshire, became a father aged 14.
It was ‘like father, like son’ when in 1997 it emerged that Mr Wright’s 14-year-old Stephen had fathered a child.
Speaking at the time, he called his son ‘a chip off the old block’, adding: ‘I can’t believe I am a grandad.
‘I’ve still got all my own hair, my own teeth and I certainly don’t need a walking stick.’
In 2006, Tressa Middleton, from West Lothian, caused a media storm when she became Britain’s youngest mother after becoming pregnant aged 11.
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