Noel Radford defends getting wife Sue pregnant when she was just 13

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A dad who has 22 children has defended getting his now wife pregnant when she was just 13-years-old.Noel Radford was 17-years-old and his partner was under the age of consent when they became expecting parents for the first time, but he has backed up the controversial decision saying the couple were "just kids."The now 53-year-old has addressed how the TV personality family started in their new joint book, The Radfords: Making Life Count, reports the Mirror.Noel explained: "What happened back then has obviously been brought up again in recent years after we became known by going on television."People have inevitably talked about the situation and it has been written about in the newspapers and discussed on social media."There has been a lot of focus on it and, in a way, it was probably worse for us than when it actually happened.

So many people have given their opinions.""But we were both kids it was not as if I was 10 or 15 years older than Sue. For a lot of people, though, things are just black and white and you are tarnished with the same brush as other people in totally different situations.

We were young and we were daft. But we wanted to continue as a couple."Noel said that despite him being over the age of consent, while Sue was below it he never got in trouble with the authorities and suggested that back then it was just "down to your mums and dads".He admitted: "There was no knock on the door saying I was in big trouble.

I think someone, somewhere may have had to report it, the doctor maybe, but there weren't any repercussions."Some of the comments from people were brutal that I should have been arrested and things like that.