How to help a 17-year-old pregnant daughter

in #pregnant7 years ago

I am 36 years old, my daughter 17. She graduated from the 11th grade this year. In terms of relations with me, everything is fine with us, she tells me everything, we always understand each other. Quarrel rarely. With dad does not communicate as well as with me.

Recently, she became friends with one unlucky boy. By itself, it seems not bad, but it is capable of hooliganism and the like. He is from an incomplete large family. I was afraid that he might drag my daughter into these cases, but decided not to limit their communication, since she considered that my daughter is already an adult and she understands what she can do and can not do.

I suspected that they had more than friendly relations, but my daughter assured me that they were only friends. Recently, I noticed a change in her behavior. I decided to talk to her, well, it's not enough that maybe help is needed with advice or money. Then she confessed to me that she was pregnant. The next day this boy came (by his own will), said that he was ready to marry, to provide for the family, that he would not leave my daughter, etc.

His boldness surprised me, I thought that such a plain-looking guy would have run off right away. I do not even know what to do with this child, with my daughter and with this boy. Too young they are and more than once will regret that they took this crucial decision in the life of both. And I do not know what to say to my father's daughter, because sooner or later he will learn everything. Help, please, advice.

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