This letter is probably a set up. If this father had done this, he would be in jail.
Yep. My reaction too.
99.5% of Dear Abby's letters are made up.
Not only would the father be in jail, it would be all over the MSM. I say this is a fake.
I think this letter is 100% bogus. A man who would brutally beat his pregnant teenage daughter doesn't do something like that out of nowhere. Brutes like that preside over chaotic, unhappy households and a teenager living in such a household would not be the type of naive girl who would take a friend's middle class mother's advice about approaching her father. A man who would beat his pregnant daughter would have beaten her before she was pregnant, too, and his daughter would be far more likely to run away than to confront her father. This letter is a fraud and either the letter writer or Abby herself is a liar.
A lot of the letters are obviously made-up, cater to left-wing stereotypes of us ignorant hicks in flyover country.
My thoughts exactly.
I don't believe this for one bit.
Something's fishy here. I can't imagine a story like that not making the news here. (Sherman Oaks, for those who don't know, is in the San Fernando Valley. It's a very liberal part part of very liberal Los Angeles.) I don't remember any such story. There is, however, a measure on the California ballot this November to require parental notification before a minor can get an abortion. The usual suspects are opposed to it. Methinks that one of those usual suspects is "Shocked and Saddened in Sherman Oaks".
definitely a set up question right now......we are voting on that next week. I will inform " Dear Abbey" she can sit along side of Michael J Fox at the next Democratic fundraiser!!!!