[marajade]

And those of us who are able should be asking if she needs any help from us. I must applaud her greatly for the decision she had made.

There are many posters in this thread that through no mistake of her own, wouldn't even consider marriage material. How terribly sad of a tale of society of today is that.

[Gabz]

There have been some posters on this thread that have given me much pause because of their self-righteous sanctimony about others they know nothing about.

I first met this young woman when our now 2nd graders were starting kindergarten, I knew she was much younger than me, but I am no one to judge an other. Our lives were very different, and yet we share so much. She and her husband and daughters have a stable life, just like mine. I'm old enough to be her mother, but instead we are becoming very close friends.

I have all the respect in the world for this girl, she had some very hard decisions to make at a very young age. It is obvious the decisions she made do not meet with the approval of some here, but her life is not theirs to approve or disapprove of, is it?

[JamesP81]

There are many posters in this thread that through no mistake of her own, wouldn't even consider marriage material. How terribly sad of a tale of society of today is that.

There are too many bad apples spoiling the bunch, unfortunately. I'm not sure what you can do about it.

I generally won't date anyone who already has children, although I did make an exception once. The reason I did is because the little girl she had was a year old. She was young enough that if the relationship worked out and I married this lady that this little girl would see me as her father just as surely as if she were my biological child. The relationship didn't work out but that's how I saw it.