The best solution to this situation may be a bit of time to mature. People's minds change quickly after that age.
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What's wrong with that?
Because she can always give the kid up for adoption.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891
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Yet the last thing she need is to abort and starting feeling guilty because of thatI will never understand why some people on Apolyton find you so clever. You're predictable, mundane, and a google-whore and the most observant of us all know this. Your battles of "wits" rely on obscurity and whenever you fail to find something sufficiently obscure, like this, you just act like a 5 year old. Congratulations, molly.
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Sure, she can give the kid up for adoption and feel guilty about that instead!Visit the Vote UK Discussion Forum!
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I guess "oh my, where is he now?" is much better than "oh my, he's dead and I killed him"I will never understand why some people on Apolyton find you so clever. You're predictable, mundane, and a google-whore and the most observant of us all know this. Your battles of "wits" rely on obscurity and whenever you fail to find something sufficiently obscure, like this, you just act like a 5 year old. Congratulations, molly.
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Sorry, wasn't entirely serious there. It's difficult to be serious about a thread started by Speer.Visit the Vote UK Discussion Forum!
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Originally posted by DanS
What's wrong with that?
Because she can always give the kid up for adoption.
I can see how someone would argue this way, especially if they dont consider abortion a murder.:-p
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I wouldn't give Speer a cat, figure out a kidI will never understand why some people on Apolyton find you so clever. You're predictable, mundane, and a google-whore and the most observant of us all know this. Your battles of "wits" rely on obscurity and whenever you fail to find something sufficiently obscure, like this, you just act like a 5 year old. Congratulations, molly.
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If she's still happy on minimum wage, that's up to her. You are not your bank account.
You mean well, Albert, but in this situation I think experience is the best teacher. You can keep trying to pound into her head the necessity of a GED, but she will not listen to you unless she is convinced that a life on minimum wage is not the life that she wants to have.
Be there for her, don't kick up a fuss if she changes her mind, or asks you for help. If she trusts you, she will listen to what you have to say.
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Like has been said, you can't make her be responsible. At some point in time, she will be required to be responsible, whether she wants to be or not. I have the same kind of talks with a number of parents of adult children where the parents run the children's lives.
If you know someone(s) else in that situation, ask that person(s) to talk to her. It may make a difference. If you don't someone, ask your acquaintances, they may know someone. Sometimes, having someone that is currently in the situation talk to them is the only way to get through to a person.
I had a relative that thought the same way about not graduating, and after several years out of school, he realized that he needed a GED to get a decent job. He wouldn't listen to any of us when we tried to tell him the same thing.
Also, there are times a person hears what you tell them, but it takes a while (sometimes a long while) before they realize what you said made sense.
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kring:
I know a whole lot of people in the same situation and she knows dozens too probably. remember i live in the city so i mean half the girls my age got kids... but despite knowing the problems of being single mothers, girls keep getting pregnant left and right.
and thank you to everyone (except End is Forever) for their comments
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Having a kid is a great cure for being "needy". She will grow up a lot as a result. Then she can always reconsider.
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What an ignorant moron. I feel very sorry about the baby, it's a shame that it will suffer from her.
Why do you feel sympathy for this girl? Her suffering will be earned, because she's a fool.
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Why is she a fool? Millions of girls her age get pregnant every year, and a lot turn out to be great mothers.
It's a strange form of puritanism that breeds this- "She's a teenaged mother! She's bad!"The genesis of the "evil Finn" concept- Evil, evil Finland
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