16 year old son's girlfriend is pregnant and they want to keep it?

Question:

My son started school the 24th and he has started to become very irritated and agitated and just plain moody. He has been getting maybe 30mins of sleep a night if that. Nothing works to help him sleep melatonin lunesta nothing seems to help it. And when he comes home he goes straight to his room and more or less locks himself in there away from the entire family. I am not sure what to do my son and I have a very very close bond and he has always told me everything. But now he has shut himself down to me and everything. I am at a lose with him.He has not had that much homework so far it is just some Syllabuses that i have had to sign and some worksheets. And he is a junior in high school. He is on the track and swim team. And he does have a girlfriend has had the same one since he was 12. I am not sure if my son is sexually active or not to tell you the truth. But for some reason it would not surprise me. And i highly doubt drugs are involved because my son went to Alaska over the summer for vacation. And he chose to come back early because his cousins were doing pot and meth. Well anyways he got home yesterday and went to his room and i went in to talk to him and he just started to sob and i asked him what was wrong and he just blurted out that his girlfriend is pregnant. And that she wants to keep it and he feels so overwhelmed and stressed and he is not sure what to do. What can i do to help? How do i help in something like this? I am glad she is keeping it to be honest because not mater how i feel that baby is my grandchild and i would never feel right them giving him or her to someone else.

Answers:

I wish you and your son the best. I hope everything works out for your family.

Time for both families to get together to have a major discussion. Call her parents and arrange the discussion. As both your son and his girlfriend are children, the parents on both sides must be involved.

both sets of parents and the kids need to sit down and talk and reassure the teens that you will help them any way possible (they still need to be responsible)and assure them(him) it will be ok

Just give him time to his self right now. He's probably feeling the pressure and needs time to relax alone at this point. Just be there and don't change at all.

i guess shes lucky first make SURE shes pregnet if she is then call the docter when shes ready and then tell the docter what happened and he'll under standJust explain to your son that you are there for him and if she chooses to have the child you will be 100% supportive.xyou will live through to and so will he.First you say that you don't know if your son is sexually active, has had the same girlfriend since he was 12 (which was far too young to have a girlfriend in the first place), then you say she is pregnant...that's a pretty good sign that, yeah, he IS sexually active. Obviously you didn't teach him how to "cover" himself. Let alone about abstinence. Now you're going to have to talk to him about getting a job because that pregnancy isn't going to support itself financially, and although the girlfriend may be covered under her parent's health insurance when she gives birth the baby won't be. So I guess these two immature, irresponsible children are going to mooch off of their parents and/or the taxpayers. Wonderful as if the economy wasn't already in the toilet.