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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, she can find the boy on facebook I bet. She can still sue for support.

What her parents are doing is illegal and reprehensible.

Maybe she can find an open adoption couple. Or do you have any close friends or family who want a baby? Who would let her continue to be in the kid's life in an "aunt"role?

Define wild. I'm not sure we can trust her messed up parents' definition.

Is she pleasant to be around, or annoying and abrasive? Does she get ok grades? Does she do drugs or drink heavily?[/quote]

She doesn't even know the boy's last name. She also doesn't know the last name of the girl who brought him. We have talked with her about open adoption, and she is adamant she does not want to give her baby to anyone else.

I can't define wild because while I don't know that I can believe what my brother says I also don't know that I can believe my niece when she claims she stopped smoking weed and smoking/drinking when she thought she might be pregnant. She is sullen and cries a lot and talks about missing her friends, her pets, her sister, school, etc. [b]I know in 8th grade she was on high honor roll and my brother said now she's failing all her classes though Niece says she's got mostly C's and D's, couple of B's. [/b]The first full day she was here I think she was trying to pull some shit by using the pregnancy card and we had a very firm talk about how pregnancy does NOT equal too sick to act like a person living a full life. It's better since then, aside from her trying to pull the same crap with DH until she realized he was on board with me, and now she pulls her weight though with a bit of grumbling (which we ignore to her face). [/quote]

the PP who posted earlier with armchair psychology.

I could be totally off base here, but this is a screaming red flag to me that *something* happened to your niece around that point.  For example I believe this is a pretty classic psychological response to sexual abuse or assault. Lots of other explanations, of course, but combine that with pregnancy, and your niece really would benefit from professional counseling.

Best of luck to all of you OP.[/quote]

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