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A question for the women, mothers especially?

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Without thinking about your party, (and I'm really interested in your input) how would you handle this and how public would you make it or want it to be?

Say your 16 year old daughter made a mistake and got pregnant. Forget liberal, forget conservative, all people make mistakes. Your daughter didn't want to abort and yet she realized she was entirely too young, with too much of her school years ahead, and financially unable to raise a child alone.

As a mother, would you sacrifice your life, step in and offer to raise the child as your own, thereby saving 2 children at once?

If you answer yes, then imagine what your family situation would be like. Would you want everyone to know your private family decisions or would you rather work things out for yourself, behind closed doors and allow the family to heal?

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  1. If you look at history, you will see that people have chosen different routes for this very situation.  To raise the child in a loving family is the most important thing.  Does it matter what the public believes about you, and your daughter.  Those people who love you will love you no less.  Those who are going to talk will talk.  My brother in-law was adopted by his grandmother when he was 6 months old, because his mother just wasn't able to take care of him.  He calls his adopted mother-Grandma (because she really is, but she is legally his mom).  He calls his biological mom "Linda mom", you guessed it her name is Linda.  They know who each person is, and he was accepted in the community by everyone equally.  His grandma was able to give him more financially, time wise, and because he was the a boy he took his grandfathers last name, making him happy in his older years, he is there now to take care of his grandmother now that she is getting "way" older.  What would it have been like for him, if they worried about what people would say.


  2. although i don't quite understand how or why the family would need to heal if you were to keep the child. i would say that i would present all options to my child. adoption (closed or open), i raise the child while she goes off to school, and so on. there are always by far more options than one realizes at first. but i'm also a person who really doesn't care what others may think or say about me. to me it's only an opinion. and opinions change constantly.  

  3. I would not offer to raise the child.  I would offer to support my daughter in the decision to abort, adopt out, or help her raise her child herself.

  4. Been there and done that.  My beautiful and lovely granddaughter is now a junior in college.  Stood by my daughter's decision and supported 100%.

  5. Yes, but I would not lie about it and pretend to be pregnant myself to save my political career. If you chose to live your life in the spotlight, there is no such thing as privacy.

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