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[quote=Anonymous]This morning in a very popular MD based moms group a person posted about a situation that she later said was about her friend of 30 years.

so this “friend’s” son who is 19 has been dating a girl for a couple of years who is 18 now. As soon as she turned 18 she took out her iud (I would guess for the sole purpose of getting pregnant) and did just that. And now has moved in to the home that the friend’s parents subsidize for their son. The girl has some issues with her adoptive parents and was sneaking out etc…and the adoptive parents it sounds like have completely washed their hands of her since she has turned 18.  The question being asked was how much support the friend should be giving the son and the pregnant girlfriend considering both are in no financial position to have a baby on their own.

This sparked a fight between my spouse and I (we have a just turned 18 year old) because I am very much in the camp of “no enabling and adult choices mean adult consequences”. Basically I would completely cut off financial support for our son and say since you have decided you are a full adult then you are going to completely have to play that role.

contraception is free (condoms are given out by the handful at all gynecologists offices and also my son’s doctor will give condoms to any patient that asks) and she already had an iud that she chose to remove so this choice to have a baby was 100% a choice. I will not subsidize bad life choices and that’s that.

So what’s your stance? [/quote]

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