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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of my childhood best friends got pregnant at 14 and had her baby just a month after turning 15.  My parents had forbidden me from hanging out with her halfway through 6th grade when she became a "bad kid" in their eyes (got caught smoking and then got caught stealing from Icing in the mall).  We still spoke but only at school and our friendship suffered because of this.  She still invited me to her baby shower and I got her a gift on my own, but my parents wouldn't let me go.  They thought it was appalling that her parents were carrying on as if it was a completely normal situation, throwing the showers, having a big 15th birthday party, the dad remodeling the basement to make an apartment for her and the baby's father to live in, etc.  She switched to homeschool after the baby was born and we pretty much lost touch for years.  She contacted me on Facebook about 3 years ago because it turned out we had another mutual friend through our kid's soccer team and FB suggested me as a friend.  The baby she had in HS is turning 21 this year.  That's crazy since we're both turning 36 this year.  She has a 10 year old and a 6 year old now and is married (not to the HS baby daddy).  It's funny because even though so much time has passed, we both still remember each others childhood secrets.  I really wish my parents hadn't made me stop being her friend all those years ago.        [/quote]

Why the hostility from your parents?

Once the baby was born it should have been all about moving forward and not looking back.[/quote]

Seriously??? Because their daughter was in 6th grade and DD's friend was caught shoplifting and smoking...and they were not excited about the prospect of their DD being influenced by the friend's questionable decision-making skills. Birds of a feather and all that... And we all know that the more we hang out with our friends, the more we make excuses for their poor choices (getting pregnant and having a baby at 15 was arguably not the best choice for this girl's life path), and the parents did not want this "normalized" by their teen daughter.
Great that they are friends now, but I think PP's parents made the right call to have PP keep her distance at the time.[/quote]

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