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.
My mother was a single Mom for most of my childhood. Although my Dad stayed very involved in my life and helped support her after the divorce, things were still very difficult for her.
No husband = no ideal environment for a kid. Her current boyfriend, rather than sticking with her, cheated on her.
Having been raised by parents who married young and never fully martured emotionally, I must say your opinion is very judgmental and short-sighted.
It is hell to grow up with an immature parent who lashes out and neglects essentials because they simply do not know any better. I left home at 17 and never went back, and I'm a female. I purposely did not have a child until my late 30s, when I had partially gotten over what happened to me and my siblings (it will never be fully over), but it was only by the grace of God and the availability of birth control that I wasn't in her place, faced with the prospect of taking my family's hurts out on an innocent child.
A baby truly is not a football. There are lots of childless couples who would love to adopt a child from an immature parent and provide what she could not provide: a stable, two-parent home. Rant all you want about getting pregnant out of wedlock, but once it happened and the boy dumped her also, a decision had to be made.
She was not thinking only of herself; but rather she was doing the best thing for the child after the father of the child proved unwilling to step up and she honestly recognized that she was unprepared to accept the enormous responsibility of raising a child as a single mother.