New Delhi, March 22 -- celand's Minister for Children, Ásthildur Lóa Thórsdóttir, has abruptly resigned after admitting that she had a child with a 16-year-old boy more than 30 years ago. The revelation came after Icelandic news outlet RUV reported on the affair, prompting the minister to come clean about her past.

Thórsdóttir, now 58 and a member of the center-left People's Party, disclosed that the relationship began when she was a 22-year-old counselor at the church group the teenager attended. She gave birth to their child when she was 23, and the teenager, identified as Eirik Ásmundsson, was present during the birth.

According to the report, Ásmundsson paid child support for 18 years, despite...