Dear LFTP: a teenager who wants a baby with Jared
- I am a teenager who wants to grow up fast and have a baby with my boyfriend Jared; what should I do and say?
A host reads a Dear LFTP letter from a teenager who wants to grow up fast and have a baby with her serious boyfriend Jared, but fears she cannot provide for the child and has grown distant; she asks what to do and say. Dan asks whether the couple is already sexually active, drawing 'guidance counselor' ribbing from the other hosts. The hosts converge on the heart issue, having a child does not make you an adult, it is being a child with a child, while affirming that her hesitation about providing is itself adult-level thinking she should keep following. The secular answer warns practically that a baby slows everything down and that she should at least finish high school first.
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