ok, but if she doesn't, I am not planning to pay to raise the child. I will present teen who is still financially dependent on us with the financial options. She can choose to go forward, but it will be without our financial help. |
Let me add that MANY OB/GYN practices are not seeing women until after 12 weeks. So you have 8 weeks to be seen, get testing, get U/S, see specialists, get bloodwork, go over results, make a decision, etc. all before any anatomy or additional development scans at 20 weeks. The poster above shocked at post-20 weeks is ghoulish and antiquated. |
You legally cannot stop caring financially for your child. At least until age 18, and they have graduated from high school. You can be charged with various crimes for refusing to provide your minor child with adequate food, clothing, shelter, medical care, and educational support. I am amazed the hhi sjws posting here don’t know that. |
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so, she has a child against our wishes and we are forced to pay for an extra mouth to feed?
This is why her option is abortion - period. |
Legally, yes. It’s against the law to not provide food, clothing, shelter, etc, for minor children. You also can be charged for not taking your child to the doctor when they need medical care. You can be charged and convicted for not allowing your child to attend school. Also: if you think it’s wrong that parents are responsible for providing basic life sustaining necessities such as food, clothing, shelter, medical care, etc, you are probably not a very nice person. People: when you see articles in the news about parents who do dreadful things to their child and ask yourself, how could that happen here? Look above to the poster abandoning their child/grandchild and not willing to provide their own minor child with basic life sustaining necessities. They walk in plain sight, among us. |
Pregnancy is emancipating. |
| My DD is 11 and if she were to become pregnant I would absolutely support her. Children make mistakes. Children are brutalized. Our job as their parents is to teach and support. |
The majority of people have at least one situation where the *only* choice they’d make for themselves is to have an abortion. Even when they call themselves anti-abortion, almost everyone has some situation they’d choose abortion, such as a pregnancy that is killing the mother. Those who have a dependent child also get to make that decision for the child if they live in a state with access to abortion—that is legally a fact. If that choice is abortion and the teen is say 16 or 17 and refuses an abortion and then the parents allow her to carry to term, they will be legally obliged to take care of their daughter until she is 18 but after the daughter is 18 can kick them both out. It I know of no one in my circle who would do such a thing. |
It's a ground for emancipation. Are you going to take your pregnant kid to court in order to no longer provide for them? |
+1 Rick Santorum’s wife had an abortion. |
Not automatically. |
pp seems particularly unhappy to have to imagine a world where they might have to part with their precious money to support their own daughter and grandchild in the event of an unexpected pregnancy. I wonder if the same group here complaining about the costs of supporting their own child and grandchild object to the millions American taxpayers must pay for people who enter America and get free ob-gyn care, pre-natal care, WIC, food stamps, housing assistance? Are they more worthy of that money than your own child and grandchild? |
We're all terribly impressed with your callousness. |
Emotionally manipulated kid in terrible situation, op, you are a charming person and parent. Do as I say or our family will abandon you. 0/10 would not recommend. |
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Wait until you have to give up retirement because your adult child keeps reproducing and not being able to afford their offspring
Call me callous, call me manipulative - my child is not raising a child under my roof if I have any say over it. |