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[quote=Anonymous]OP, if your dd has the baby, it is (obviously) 50% hers and 50% the father's, and that has real legal implications. He will owe child support. Setting aside the ethics of not telling him now, he (or his parents pushing him to do it) can also sue for custody. Your DD should not assume that, just because this was a summer fling or whatever, that the father and/or his family will just go about their lives as if the baby didn't exist. In fact, if you were to think about raising the baby yourself while your dd stays in school -- the flip side of that is that the baby's father's parents would have just as equal a claim to want to raise the baby themselves, have joint custody, or have 50/50 time or whatever.

This is all by way of saying -- in addition to the financial and logistical issues of your DD having a baby while in college, there are serious legal issues as well that could affect your DD, her child, and your family at any time during the baby's infanthood, childhood, and all the way up through when s/he becomes an adult. If your DD follows through with wanting to have the baby, you and she need to talk to a family lawyer about options and implications.[/quote]

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