I really don’t understand why people hate babies so much.
I can understand things like “I wasn’t prepared” “I’m not ready” “This will ruin my life”. The last one because a baby will ruin your life if you think that having a baby will ruin your life. And your life needs to be ruined and re-built anyway.
I m fairly sure if one of our daughters got pregnant out of wedlock, my wife and I would raise the child. I do not think I could ever get used to one of my grandchildren being “somewhere” else.
A family member adopted a child after being unable to conceive one of their own. It is a true blessing. Kelly did right and I pray the right man will come into her life. She deserves it.
What a great story. The real winners there are her parents. They could have destroyed that girl with one comment yet they chose to love her through a personal crisis and failure.
I remember listening to some guy talk about this on a Christian radio station. He said he and his wife were in bed when their daughter came in and told them she was pregnant.
He said he looked at her and said “I love you.”
Sometime later it changed to “Now, let’s work it out.”
She made the same choice of adoption.
Abortion is never a reasonable solution. Never. It kills the child and destroys the mother, and often the father.
I was surprised a faith-based adoption agency worked with “Shawn and Dave”, unless Shawn is a woman.
None of that would have happened if she’d had the sense to keep her damn pants on. That sounds harsh, but the truth is not all unicorns and lollipops.
Babies are great.
It makes no sense when women say that having a baby means that their life is over.
Having adopted a grandchild, I see another side not yet visited in these responses.
There is a “syndrome” called “Adoption Syndrome”. It occurs when the adopted child at 10-12 suddenly realizes according to his or her own definition of love, “My “mom” didn’t love me enough to keep me.” and then later, “Look, she’s had two more kids but I am not part of her family.” Then the the s..t* hits the fan and you all get on an emotional roller coaster ending in one form of disaster or another.
Social services and psychologists were absolutely no help. Maybe knowledge about this problem has increased in the last 35+ year.... Maybe there are forewarning signs we weren’t aware of.
I would never repeat the experience. Abortion is not an option even though our society seems to think it is O.K.
I think we need to teach boys and girls with visual teaching aids the consequences of promiscuity. And we must hold boys as accountable as the girls. No ands, ifs or buts.
I have a niggling suspicion that our lack of spirituality in the USA may be due to lack of love and respect for our progeny, intrauterine or extrauterine.
Ping
Did she get married?
‘If you don’t get an abortion, I will lose all respect for you’
‘I wouldn’t want my daughter punished with a baby’
These are the prevailing attitudes in our country today. The Godless have ruled for decades. Those of us who don’t subscribe to these anti-life attitudes are ridiculed and demeaned at every turn. I’m glad this young woman found out that her ‘8 year relationship’ wasn’t what she had believed. I hope her future is filled with love, marriage and children someday.
So she didn’t kill the baby but her future career still took precedence.
“”“The hardest day of my life was driving away from that hospital without a baby. I had never felt more empty in my life. I was physically empty, and I felt so alone.”””
That’s about how the kid might end up feeling someday when he finds out his mom gave him away.
“””“I don’t sugarcoat that because it’s real life and I loved this child so much, but I couldn’t give him a father, I couldn’t give him brothers and sisters for a long time, I couldn’t provide him with what felt like anything he deserved.””””
Couldn’t give him brothers and sisters for a long time - because career.
For all she knows, she could have met a guy in less than a year that already had a house and good income.
What a great story about a person’s making the best decision in a very difficult situation.
I could not help but observe, however, that, having earned a Master’s degree in counseling, the young lady is working as a preschool teacher. Parents, think about this when you and your young-adult children discuss college!
I, on the other hand, am very curious. :)
I could never have done that - I raised mine to be a successful, working, loving mother and grandmother. 47 years ago.
Kelly if this guy were in charge you'd probably be sterilized. You should be proud that close minded thug doesn't respect you.
All we hear is second hand info about the dad. I wonder why?
I’m with Roseanne on this one.
I’m certainly happy she didn’t have an abortion, but what a selfish, me, me, me, person.
You GAVE AWAY your CHILD! Like it was a piece of property. Did you advertise on eBay?
This woman is no saint, she’s deplorable.
And she wasn’t a “teen”. She was an adult.
When my then fiancé got pregnant, I was 19 and she was 17. We told both of our parents we wanted to get married.
They supported us in that decision, and in January we celebrated 50 years of marriage.