Teen Pregnancy Scenario

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Exam Three Maizee Lamb Millikin University Adrienne felt she had no choice in her when she harassed her family on Facebook. She was a thirteen year old girl from Illinois caught in a family feud over one very important cause: her baby. She had just recently got into a very physical fight with her boyfriend and baby’s father, Shawn, at school over who takes better care of the beautiful little baby. Once the fight occurred, the school felt that since it was a family matter, pressing battery on school ground charges would only makes issues worse. Their middle school decided to let them go with just a warning, which ended up resulting in Adrienne and Shawn getting charged with an entirely different criminal case. Since Adrienne is the mother of the baby, she legally has full custody since Shawn has not taken her to court. Shawn’s family feels that Adrienne does not deserve to have full custody since Shawn is the one with the part-time job that provides the necessities for the baby. The feud on Facebook broke out between Adrienne and Shawn’s family discussing what she truly does for the baby besides just “baby-sitting” when she is not in school, and why she should and should not have full custody. Other than Adrienne saying, “Because I am her mother!”, she really had no other reasons for why she deserves her rights and her anger caused her to make threats about taking the baby away from Shawn and his family for the rest of their lives. That threat is where it began and ended, theoretically. Shawn started commenting now saying multiple profanities about her and her parenting; threating Adrienne physically and saying he was going to take her to court. The comments continued to go back and forth until finally an extended famil... ... middle of paper ... ...nd then move forward as a whole family unit. If they are able to complete that, then I see them being able to be a civil with each other from now and they should be able to care for the baby together, without conflict. References Agnew, R., & Brezina, T. (2009). Juvenile delinquency causes and control. (4th ed., pp. 3-583). New York City: Oxford University Press, Inc. "Cyberbullying Research Center - cyber bullying examples, cases, laws, articles, stories, presentations, videos, facts, statistics." Cyberbullying Research Center. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Nov. 2013. . "Illinois Compiled Statutes." Illinois General Assembly. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Nov. 2013. .

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