Parenting Stories

The day I found out I was pregnant, my parents were out of town, and I literally fell on my knees and just started crying out, “God, help me!

As a young woman, stood up that day at the Church altar after 7 years of engagement, and with a child in womb, I was fearful of telling angry parents who were displeased their eldest daughter was the first in the family tree to become pregnant out of wedlock.

I kept thinking what am I going to say to parents, friends, family? What will other people say?  How can my daughter handle this situation?  Is she mature enough to handle this situation?  What are we going to do?  I talked with my daughter about what she could choose.  I knew that she had options.  I didn’t use the word abortion, but I did tell her there were options referring to the fact that abortion may be an option.

I was very blessed to grow up in a wealthy family. Everything in life had been handed to me. I knew there was the possibility when I told my family that I was pregnant that they could cut me off and throw me out on the street. I knew that they would have a hard time accepting it. It was really scary for me. To sit there and have to tell your family that you are pregnant is a scary situation. Telling my boyfriend, who is now my husband, was a little less scary.