My spouse and I have raised three daughters. Our older girls married and live with their families quite happily. But our youngest is our headache. Monica has always been a quiet and calm child. There were never any problems with her. She dreamed of becoming a lawyer.
When she started her senior year I started noticing that she was looking kind of pale. I started to worry about her health. I asked her how she was feeling, but she said she was fine, she was just very tired because they had so much to teach. I was alarmed that she was somehow hiding her eyes. But then I decided I was winding myself up…
Once we decided to take a steam bath, when my daughter undressed, then I realized everything. I myself have given birth to three, it was hard not to notice changes in her figure…
– Well, why are you silent, why do not you say anything about what you decided to make us the father of the grandparents?
The daughter first started to deny, but then confessed to everything. Swimming suddenly felt reluctant, and we went with her to her grandfather to tell him the news. To say that the husband was furious – it means nothing to say! We started to ask who the happy daddy, but she refused to answer us the question. There was nothing to do, and it was already a fairly advanced age! We had no choice but to have the baby. My father and I were against my daughter leaving school, so we insisted that she finish her studies. She was already getting her high school diploma as a mom.
My husband and I decided that we would take over the upbringing of the child, and let our daughter get an education, because at that time her whole life was ahead of her. After all, without education she had nothing in this life. When she graduates, finds a job, then she will take her daughter with her.
After she graduated from the university my daughter took a job right away, but she was in no hurry to take her daughter away from us, because she had no place of her own, and she wandered about by herself, and she used to come home from work very tired. That’s how it turned out that we took our granddaughter to first grade, not her mother. My daughter came home very seldom, but she sent money for her daughter all the time.
Then one day she came and told us that she was pregnant again. She told us that the baby’s father is single and a very rich man. He said he wasn’t going to leave the family, but he wasn’t going to give up the baby either. He told her that if she decided to keep the baby, he would always support her financially. The daughter began to persuade us to take her second child with us, because she herself cannot go on maternity leave, since she has just begun to climb the career ladder.
We told our daughter no, because if she wants to have a baby, she should worry about her children and bring them up herself, and not leave them to her parents. We raised our children ourselves, we did not pass the care on to anyone else. Of course it was not easy, but we chose this life, because we wanted to have children. We can’t take on the responsibility of raising a newborn now, because our health is not good anymore.
Our daughter took offense at us and left, and then she sent us a text message urging us to think again, because if we refused her, she would not have the baby. We told our daughter that we had told her everything and there was nothing more to say. Of course we said no, but now my soul is torn apart, and now my husband and I don’t know what to do.
