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Having your 10th child at age 28 is unusual, maybe almost Duggar-level disturbing. However, Kylie Michelle Waite could well be doing it behind bars.

The three-months'-pregnant Lavington, Australia, woman was recently sentenced to six months in jail for driving without a license. Unfortunately, this is not Waite's first driving offense. She has been sentenced by Judge David Freeman five times just since January.

Judge Freeman said, "The number of times she has been dealt with for disqualified driving and being unlicensed is staggering, considering her age." Waite currently has custody of four children, ages 9 months to 5 years, but this next baby will be her 10th biological child. She had her first child at 17.

Click here to read more on the issue of pregnancy in prison.

Of course, inmates giving birth in prison is a problem in the U.S. as well, where a law was recently passed in New York forbidding the shackling of women during labor. Women typically have to give up their newborns shortly after having them, and many don't see them again until their parole.

In California, where women give birth almost every day somewhere in the state's system, one of its facilities opened a prison nursery this year where babies are allowed to stay with their incarcerated mothers. Similar programs are springing up elsewhere.

In Waite's case, sentiment seems to coincide with the words of Public Prosecutions representative Tonya Adamson, who said the pregnant woman should have been thinking about her children when she got behind the wheel.

Some, however, argue that poor parenting skills, especially by women like Waites who have a family history of violence and addiction, can be better overcome through education than incarceration.


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