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me b zola

(19,053 posts)
Wed Apr 15, 2015, 01:35 PM Apr 2015

Breaking the cycle: Queensland university student adopts homeless, pregnant teenage cousin

**THIS** is the answer and the way. "Adopt" young mothers who are in need of help and stop the un-necessarily separation of
families:

A 23-year-old Sunshine Coast university student has spoken about taking his pregnant teenage cousin under his own roof to care for her and her newborn.

~snip~

“I became the legal foster parent for her to make sure she’d keep the baby, stay off the streets and have a better life,” he wrote on Facebook.


~snip~

“I became the legal foster parent for her to make sure she’d keep the baby, stay off the streets and have a better life,” he wrote on Facebook.

~snip~

“When bad things happen, it's your family that supports you,” he wrote.

“It means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

“I've had my family pull my head out of the gutter before... It was time to pay it forward.”


~more @ link~ http://www.9news.com.au/world/2015/04/15/11/46/queensland-university-student-adopts-homeless-and-pregnant-teenage-cousin#gig_comment_id=041c9ce8d860415885030a7a9d69f4dd


Respect children and their mothers. If you say that you care about the poor and those in difficult situations, then support keeping families together.
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Breaking the cycle: Queensland university student adopts homeless, pregnant teenage cousin (Original Post) me b zola Apr 2015 OP
Kick. bravenak Apr 2015 #1
Two great, mature young people! jen63 Apr 2015 #2
The young man who adopted his pregnat younger cousin most certaily is great and mature me b zola Apr 2015 #3
And the pregnant girl, jen63 Apr 2015 #4

me b zola

(19,053 posts)
3. The young man who adopted his pregnat younger cousin most certaily is great and mature
Wed Apr 15, 2015, 02:43 PM
Apr 2015

I wish all of them the very best.

jen63

(813 posts)
4. And the pregnant girl,
Wed Apr 15, 2015, 02:51 PM
Apr 2015

for knowing what was best for herself and future baby. Thank you for this story, very inspiring!

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