More than a hundred teenage girls from the Novosibirsk region became mothers in 2025.

And this is only for the first six months.

According to a press release from the Novosibirsk Region Civil Registry Office, 105 girls under 18 applied to register their newborns. Only 16 of these children's fathers were also minors.

Meanwhile, the Novosibirsk Civil Registry Office reported that 36 teenagers—11 boys and 25 girls—married in the region in the first six months of 2025. As a reminder, the most common reasons for marriage before adulthood are pregnancy and the birth of a child.

Novosibirsk Oblast authorities previously stated that they do not plan to introduce financial support for teenage mothers, as is the case in other regions.

But last week, in a desperate fight to increase the birth rate, Russian deputies proposed allowing Russians to marry earlier and faster. A State Duma deputy from the New People party Sardana Avksentieva stated that the period between filing an application and the ceremony should be reduced from 30 to 10 days.

And a deputy of the Bryansk Regional Duma and chairman of the Orthodox Russia movement Mikhail Ivanov He proposed lowering the age of marriage from 18 to 16. This is necessary due to the rising number of underage pregnancies, he explained without attempting to be modest.

"Our harvest is terrible. Maybe we should send all the deputies out to the fields, to plow?" "And where are young families supposed to live and work?" "Why start at 16? Let's start at 13?" "Has anyone come up with a simpler, more humane solution? Bring the pubescent men home! And then there won't be any need to encourage pedophilia." — readers commented at the time.NotMoscow».