Plenty of things are a challenge when you're a teenager. You in the thick of discovering your personality, your style, your ideologies, and the things you like to do, the last thing any teenager needs is an over-complication clogging up the formation of their cerebral cortex–which is why it's so gnarly if you get pregnant and become a teen mom.
Adolescence is tough enough without a wriggling kiddo screaming in your arms while you're studying for the SAT.
So any teen parent who wants to keep their baby relies heavily on their own parents–newly promoted grandma and grandpa–to help them out. The woman in this next story, however, discovered that her parents weren't willing to be helpful and instead of supporting their 16-year-old daughter's decision to keep her baby, they went behind her back to arrange a secret adoption.
After literally tricking their teen daughter into signing away her rights to her own baby, the family (naturally) imploded. With a maternity ward reeking of moderate kidnapping, the daughter was rightfully fuming and went 'No Contact' with her parents immediately and for the next several decades. Now, 24 years later, her parents have come crawling back to impose themselves on her current happy ending.
Keep scrolling for the story of two teenagers who built a happy life and a healthy family for themselves despite having the worst parents on earth.