Poll: Hypothetical situation

[Conqueror Kenny]

So I have been thinking about this for a while, and I have got to wondering about the charismatic members of the Escapist think. I will present a Hypothetical situation, and I want you opinions on what you think should happen next:

There are two young people, no older than the ages of eighteen and they think they love each other. The boy works a seven hour day and has great potential as an up and coming music star. The girl, she has dreams, dreams to paint. She is very artistic and also has great potential as an artist. These two have a child together at the young ages they are. No doubt it was a mistake, yet together they decided to keep the child, as they believe that they can give it a good life together. The boy continues his normal life, working his long hours, and spending his nights in the music studio. Though he always gets away from that early in order to get home and help the girl with the baby. The girl now has little to no free time; she has fallen out with her parents about the baby and has only her boyfriend to help her. Her dreams are ruined, so she decides that one day while her friends are visiting that she would let them look after the baby whilst she "Pops to the shops." However, she never returns, she has left her life in order to peruse her artistic dreams. The boy returns to find his baby left with his two friends and his girlfriend nowhere in sight. He finds out from the two that she left over three hours ago to go to the shops which are no less than ten minutes away.

At this point he has a choice, does he keep the baby and try to raise it as best he can; balancing his already hectic life with the non-stop needs of the baby. Or does he not, does he put the baby up for adoption?

Like i said, this is purely hypothetical and it's not a vague reference to my life, or the life of anybody I know. It is just an interesting situation that comes out with some interesting answers.

 

[Johnn Johnston]

It depends on whether he is capable. If he is able to balance his life and his needs with those of looking after a child, then I think he should. If he is not, then adoption is the only choice for him.

 

[Death Magnetic]

If it that was me in that hypothetical situation as the male I would raise the youth on my own to the best of my ability. I wouldn't ever be able to leave the child, it just seems completely immoral. I would continue working but I'd try and dump the baby upon my Mum when I can't make time for the kid.

-Ricky

 

[Locobato]

Things are never clear cut and emotions will affect the boys decisions. There have been many great people that were raised by parents that could barely support them. The opposite is also true. Really depends on the person and what they want out of life. Do they want to fulfill their life dreams or those of their children.

 

[Conqueror Kenny]

I voted yes, but it really depends. Is he financially stable? I assumed so, but who knows?

For as long as he is working, then yes he is. But if he doesn't work in order to properly look after the baby then no. That is the big problem here.

 

[xitel]

I think that raising the baby would cause undue strain on the boy. There's the fact that if he were to keep up his work hours he would be unable to watch the child, but if he stopped working those hours he may become unable to support himself and the baby financially. Plus, he may begin blaming the stress of his on the baby, instead of the girlfriend, where the fault belongs, creating a hostile and potentially abusive enviornment for the child. I feel it would be better to put the child up for adoption for a family that would be able to support the child and give it the nurturing environment it needs to develop.

 

[Souplex]

They barely had enough time between the two of them and now his available resources have been cut in half so I have to say give up the baby.

 

[ElephantGuts]

I said no. What he should do is ditch the baby, hunt down his ex-girlfriend, and kill her.

Joking, even though that probably would have a good chance of happening in real life. But I said no because it sounds like he wouldn't be capable of managing his life and the baby, and of he tried it would just end up ruining things for both of them.

But in my opinion, the two retards should never have had a baby in the first place and avoided this whole situation.

But she's only been gone three hours! Hunt her down!

 

[DGenius]

I think he should keep it and raise it. They both put in on the baby. So why should he give it up just because he wants a music career. Besides if he gave the baby up and he did "make it" as they say, that's bad publicity.