Now, the choice is either abortion or handicapped, impoverished motherhood.
It’s pretty messed up, but the girl (as always) really gets the short end of the stick. I bet her ex will basically be AWOL for the rest of the kid’s life, and his child support payments are probably <=$200/mo (try and raise your kid on THAT!), since he’s probably marginally employed.
Not always.
My sister had a baby at 20. She did not marry the boys father. She bought her house at age 23.
She now owns two house, both valued at 350k. The baby is now 26 with a BA from Case.
My nephews family got involved with him at 6 months, they could not resist his face :) Dad was not far behind.
My nephew has the best of both and so do we, good families that love each other out of what could have been ugly.
Never say never my friend.
The responsible thing to do in a situation like this IS to give the baby up for adoption, and some caring people still do that. Telling girls that it’s OK to raise a baby as an unwed single mother is one of the worst aspects of the breakdown of our culture.
In this case, I suppose that the press would have discovered & violated the privacy of any adoptive parents. But it would have been awfully brave for the Palins to send not just the pro-life message, but the pro-adoption message. It isn’t admirable to save a baby’s life only to drag it into a dysfunctional mess.