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"I guess her idiot mom never heard of adoption?"

That was exactly what her dad wanted her to do actually. Stay with him until the baby was born and then maybe a family member could adopt it. He even said he would adopt the baby if he had to. Heck, I would've even considered adopting it at that point just to prevent the abortion even though we scrape by with only 2 kids. The mother wouldn't have that though. She didn't want her daughter having a baby period and wouldn't allow her to return home until the abortion was completed. It was a sad situation all around but she didn't have as many options as we all would've liked her to have. The courts just wouldn't let her come live with any of the out of state family and it honestly was pure hell for her living with her dad. Her dad is my brother in law and I do like him for the most part, but he has been somewhat lacking in being a good father to the two children from the previous marraige. He tried hard at first, but the mother made it so hard to have any time with them that he gave up once they were teens. At that point he really didn't have any room in his home for them anyway. The mom had also beaten into their heads their whole life that their dad didn't want them and didn't love them so that they were very angry with him by their teen years and felt like an outsider when they stayed with him. I really hope God shows some mercy in the child's tough decision and no mercy in the mothers stand on it. I'm not sure the teen had a real understanding of what she was doing (though she did protest and fight as best as she could in her situation) but the mother knew exactly what she was pushing her daughter to do.