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Daughter is pregnant - at 15!

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  • Gavin83
    Gavin83 Posts: 8,757 Forumite
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    It is worth considering that if the father is of a similar age there won't be any financial support from him in the beginning. What is he going to do, give her 20% of his pocket money?
  • Errata
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    Gavin83 wrote: »
    It is worth considering that if the father is of a similar age there won't be any financial support from him in the beginning. What is he going to do, give her 20% of his pocket money?

    Nope, he should give her all of it and his parents should be coughing up as well.
    .................:)....I'm smiling because I have no idea what's going on ...:)
  • POPPYOSCAR
    POPPYOSCAR Posts: 14,902 Forumite
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    poet123 wrote: »
    My thoughts were that it was a reaction to her father leaving, a craving for male love and attention without realising the possible consequences. Who knows? we are all speculating, and really I am not sure whether that is helpful to the OP.

    Although I have to agree with Errata, she seems remarkably sanguine about all the uncertainty. I simply couldn't be that way.



    How would you make her tell her then?
  • midnightraven3
    midnightraven3 Posts: 2,720 Forumite
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    how DOES a 15 year old support a baby financially?
    NOT a flippant question, i genuinely dont know
  • poet123
    poet123 Posts: 24,099 Forumite
    As an aside ( and not relevant to the OP) but pertinent to the subject of teen sex, my eldest is a teacher, he had a lesson today where his pupils had to write a piece on the subject of attractions in their home town which would interest visitors. One girl wrote about a local nightclub, saying it was a great place to get !!!!ed and laid.....she was 12.
  • Errata
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    midnightraven3 wrote: »
    how DOES a 15 year old support a baby financially?
    NOT a flippant question, i genuinely dont know
    Father, grandparents, state contributions?
    .................:)....I'm smiling because I have no idea what's going on ...:)
  • POPPYOSCAR
    POPPYOSCAR Posts: 14,902 Forumite
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    poet123 wrote: »
    As an aside ( and not relevant to the OP) but pertinent to the subject of teen sex, my eldest is a teacher, he had a lesson today where his pupils had to write a piece on the subject of attractions in their home town which would interest visitors. One girl wrote about a local nightclub, saying it was a great place to get !!!!ed and laid.....she was 12.



    Sadly, this does not surprise me unfortunately.
  • SueC_2
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    vax2002 wrote: »
    but one thing has always been established very firmly especially through teenage years and that is I am the parent and YOU are the Child, what I say goes.

    And one day they will be the ones caring for you when you are too weak/frail/senile to do so yourself. At that point it will be them saying "what I say goes". What goes around, comes around..........
  • poet123
    poet123 Posts: 24,099 Forumite
    POPPYOSCAR wrote: »
    How would you make her tell her then?

    I wrote quite a long post about it yesterday. I don't really want to add to it at this stage.
  • POPPYOSCAR
    POPPYOSCAR Posts: 14,902 Forumite
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    SueC wrote: »
    And one day they will be the ones caring for you when you are too weak/frail/senile to do so yourself. At that point it will be them saying "what I say goes". What goes around, comes around..........


    Oh yes ....

    We have had this said to us by our children...


    One day when you are in that home!!!!!!!!!!!

    I will be saving up the tablets fast!!!!
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