DEPT. OF YIKES

Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel is making waves with her recent comment that girls are ready to be mothers at the age of 14.

The author was unable to have kids but said she could have coped with them at 14. She said: "Having sex and babies is what young women are about.

No doubt Mantel was an extraordinary 14 year old but this forty-something parent has his doubts ...