Posted on 08/30/2013 9:39:01 PM PDT by Pinkbell
My daughter has been with her boyfriend for four years. He comes from a large, tight-knit family from a diaspora community. Our family is small, although also from a foreign community. My daughter has a good job with good salary, supports herself and lives on her own. Her boyfriend has a degree and a postgraduate qualification, lives with his parents and works with his father.
His parents have never taken to my daughter, until recently behaving coldly and never asking her about herself. (These are her words; I have never met them.)
I liked her boyfriend when I first met him. I have always been welcoming. He is warm and friendly, although without much depth, and, it seemed, always putting his relatives before my daughter. I had reservations about him as a long-term prospect for her. I did discuss this and she assured me they complemented each other and she wanted to marry him and for him to be the father of her children.
Last Christmas, she hoped he would ask her to marry him. Then came the bombshell. She found she was pregnant. She told him and he immediately said he didn't want her to keep it and she should have an abortion. She was very upset, calling me in tears, saying that he was putting pressure on her. I rang and asked him not to, and he said they would decide together. I have never spoken to him again.
She eventually decided to have the abortion, although right up to the day she was in turmoil as to whether it was the right decision, particularly since she had had a termination at 16. She has told me his parents don't know about it. She had asked him to tell them, but as far as we know he hasn't.
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I know a few exceptions, but only a few.
Well said, and there’s plenty to add.
I actually wonder how many young people connect their actions with shame. Or if they even know what shame is.
But then I look back at the days I grew up. We didn’t pay any regard to our parents values (at the time).
Things have become more extreme...and I fear that will continue to be the case.
Any “boyfriend” who advocates killing his own child is NOT husband/father material.
It’s still that way in conservative circles.
Took me 3x reading that with my dyslexia to get it right. Yep - I think you nailed it.
What a convoluted way to say "muslim". Can't say it out straight in Britain anymore, eh?
Western girls hooking up with muzzies always get burned in the end. Sometimes literally so. Yet they keep ignoring the wealth of evidence that bad things will happen. My sympathy for these fools is used up.
I’d physically restrain any women intent upon killing her child. I don’t care how old the child is. She has no right.
Call it kidnapping, do you? A very inappropriate characterization in my opinion. People trying to kill children should not be “free.”
Until shame and responsibility get back America may not get back any of it’s old great self I fear.
If he does not want his own baby, he does not want her either.
She should dump him and keep her baby. Then get child support.
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