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flora · Joined: 12 May 2009 Posts: 111

hi

What are your rights as a parent of a pregnant minor?

sibiya · Joined: 01 Apr 2009 Posts: 311

hi

do you mean rights to the child's child? none.

grandparents don't have any rights to the children unless rights by the first parent are surrendered and grandparents have been given custody through the courts.

A pregnant minor can surrender her child to adoption without ever telling her parents she was pregnant.

parents of pregnant girls have made it very impossible for them to keep their children though. If you read "girls who went away" by ann fessler you will see that although parents don't have rights over their pregnant daughters, they can make their life very difficult and make it near impossible for them to keep their babies which is heart wrenching to me.

May I please encourage you to assist your daughter in keeping her child and attempting to parent and not pressuring her to surrender her child if she expresses desire to parent. Pelase encourage her to at least give it a try. you may be surprised at how wondeful grandparent-hood can be. My mother was very upset when i became pregnant, she didn't help at all, a year later I introduced her to my daughter and she has been the greatest help ever since. She will be the first to say that her initial rejection was the biggest mistake she'd ever made.