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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm 24, and my son is only one year old, but I also was in your daughter's shoes.

I worked in the restaurant business all throughout college. I met a lot of people who I'm sure my parents would hate. Managers that went to the bathrooms to snort coke. Ex-convicts. Illegal immigrants. Drug dealers.

I befriended many of these people, to one degree to another. Then I graduated college and got a nice government job, married my girlfriend, and had a baby. I still talk to many friends from these jobs.

It never made me want to snort coke, or to go to jail, or to sell drugs, or to have kids. It showed me that behind these issues there is often a human struggling with deeper problems that might not be so obvious. People who want acceptence, people worthy of friendship even if I don't have any desire to follow their path in life.

There is a big difference between saying, 'her kids are cute' and wanting children of one's own. I'm sure the kids probably are cute, and maybe makes your daughter think about when she has kids off her own, but unless there are other underlying problems you see, I suspect it also will show your DAD just how challenging that life is. [/quote]

I don't think having a kid at 23 is a great life decision.[/quote]

It's a perfectly fine decision when, like this young man, you've finished college, secured a job, and married the child's mother.  Kudos to this young man both for this actions and his perspective on life and common humanity.  His parents should be proud of him, I know if he were my son, I would be.  [/quote]

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