My daughter had the talk was not a wild child in high school but still managed to get pregnant at 17. She had the baby, stayed in school, graduated and entered college to become a nurse. We helped her and her church reached out with love, forgiveness and support to her and her baby and she stayed in church.
The dad was in high school and as I put it “baby went slumming” to my wife. He was and is an ongoing useless pest. He’s dropped out of college and now on his 6-7th job and doesn’t want to pay child support, $60 a month wow! But he wants visitation rights and went to court to get them.
I told my daughter when the baby was young, you are going to be there and up with him at 2:00am and you are going to stay in school, and work. You don’t need to drag one boy after another in on your son and confuse him. She graduated, worked many late hours as a waitress at Pizza Hut and we watched the baby. My wife worked three jobs to pay for the day care and extra costs.
To my daughters credit she didn’t date for two years and while in college started talking to a guy who was a year older than her and had just been discharged from the Army with a severe injury two weeks before basic training ended. During training with full pack he stepped into a leg deep hole and the other leg of course popped straight out, lots of pain, medical treatment and PT.
After dating for three or four months she introduced her son to the guy, long story short they dated for another two years, she graduated college as a nurse and they married and he loves and takes care of her son like his own. Baby daddy is still bitching about $60 a month child support.
Your daughter’s story is one of making right choices after a poor choice. God bless her and your whole family.
“...We helped her and her church reached out with love, forgiveness and support to her and her baby and she stayed in church...”
Thanks for sharing that story and glad your daughter eventually found a good husband.