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In reply to the discussion: "MY 12 year old is pregnant. FOR REAL."... [View all]IdaBriggs
(10,559 posts)she was going to be with, which unfortunately, is plausible when dealing with this age group, so it doesn't sound like the mother was enabling the behavior, but rather was oblivious to the fact her daughter had made a decision to become sexually active before the mother thought it was an issue that had to be discussed in depth/detail. (Twelve years old - I have nieces/nephews in that age range, and I probably wouldn't have assumed their parents needed to talk to them about such things until they were in junior high school, so the entire posting has been a bit of a wake-up call to me - urk!)
I am pro-choice. I still find the situation to be terrible, and frankly was just appalled by your flippant cruelty / automatic assumption of uncaring / bad motherhood.
For this family (assuming it isn't a fake post, which I don't think it is - I personally believe the mother was probably googling looking for anybody who had been in this type of nightmare before), it kind of *is* a big deal, with repercussions that will be felt for decades to come regardless of the decisions that are made.
I just feel bad for them.