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Speaker 1: When a teenager gets pregnant, it becomes a family affair.

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Speaker 1: TLC's new series Unexpected explores the ups and downs of

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Speaker 1: three pregnant teens For all children of teen mothers themselves,

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Speaker 1: parents and grandparents must step in to help them through

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Speaker 1: this huge life change. Don't miss the revealing new series

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Speaker 1: Time for the Strawberry Letters. Subject sick and tired of

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Speaker 1: the drama. Dear Morning crew, buckle your seatbelt because you're

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Speaker 1: in for a journey. I'm a twenty five year old

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Speaker 1: mother to The problem starts and ends with my mother.

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Speaker 1: When I was in my early teens, my mom met

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Speaker 1: this man. This man turned out to be a pervert,

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Speaker 1: but my mom never listened. She in turn threw me

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Speaker 1: out for saying he was trying to less to me

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Speaker 1: and for me fighting him back. Years went on and

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Speaker 1: we were never close again. Recently, it was uncovered that

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Speaker 1: the same man not only molested my daughter, but my

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Speaker 1: niece too. My mom didn't believe them either. We press

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Speaker 1: charges on him to excuse me at are currently awaiting trial.

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Speaker 1: She doesn't even attempt to go to court to show

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Speaker 1: her support or anything. My mom has never apologized nor

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Speaker 1: showed any remorse. I have tried to be a good daughter,

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Speaker 1: but how much am I to endure just because she's

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Speaker 1: my mother? I mean I had been called every name

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Speaker 1: in the book, kicked out, turned on at the point

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Speaker 1: where I feel I don't want a mama anymore, and uh,

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Speaker 1: I don't want this to affect my mothering skills. What

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Speaker 1: should I do? Because I don't want to keep my

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Speaker 1: kids away from their grandma, but I can't keep letting

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Speaker 1: her hurt me. Sick and tired of being sick and tired. Wow, ah,

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Speaker 1: this is like, uh the whole So you have no

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Speaker 1: idea what's going on? Well, I mean it's basically about

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Speaker 1: this young woman who's written in Yeah, okay, it's like

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Speaker 1: the precious syndrome. I think I totally totally recommend counseling

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Speaker 1: for you right now, because you're dealing with some heavy,

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Speaker 1: heavy situations in this case. I don't blame you at

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Speaker 1: all for how you feel about your mother under the circumstances.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry that you had to go through this, that

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Speaker 1: your baby had to go through this. Your mother is

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Speaker 1: wrong in this instant U. She should have never taken

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Speaker 1: your word over his. She should have never kicked you

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Speaker 1: out of the house without investigating the situation. Uh, you

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Speaker 1: need counseling. That is my answer for you. You've got

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Speaker 1: to get yourself some counseling and get your child some

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Speaker 1: counseling to continue with the court case all of that. Uh,

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Speaker 1: Steve will have his answer when we come back twelve

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Speaker 1: minutes after. Okay, Steve, let's get to it. Okay, this

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Speaker 1: is a serious years and her mother has not believed

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Speaker 1: her when she told her that the man in her

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Speaker 1: life has been trying to bless her and her niece

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Speaker 1: and um and then uh, you know it's her daughter

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Speaker 1: and and and she doesn't believe her. He's calling her

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Speaker 1: names and everything. She went out to put her out.

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Speaker 1: She can went and press charges on this man and

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Speaker 1: currently awaiting trial. She doesn't even attempt to go to

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Speaker 1: support to show her support. Her mother's never apologized, showed

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Speaker 1: any remorse. You know, the girl said, I tried to

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Speaker 1: be a good daughter, but how much can I do it?

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Speaker 1: Just because she's my mother? She's been called names and stuff.

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Speaker 1: You know, she don't want her, She doesn't want her

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Speaker 1: mama anymore, and she doesn't want this to affect her

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Speaker 1: mother was filled. What should I do? Because I don't

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Speaker 1: want to keep my kids away from their grandmother. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let the kids see the grandmother that's here. Here's the deal.

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Speaker 1: You obviously know and feels that your mom is. You

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Speaker 1: have every right to press charges on this people who

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Speaker 1: has tried to flaship because some other people in the

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Speaker 1: court system. It's not gonna you in the same when

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Speaker 1: your mother's Please understand, they're gonna look at the facts,

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Speaker 1: take a lot of stuff into consideration, and what they're

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Speaker 1: going to do. I don't know, But what should you do?

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Speaker 1: Stay on your courts, Try to understand the desperation doesn't

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Speaker 1: make it right that your mother is in a lot

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Speaker 1: of women do desperate things just to have a name.

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Speaker 1: She don't want to believe this about her man calling

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Speaker 1: your names because he all off in her ear. Maybe

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Speaker 1: I would never do such a thing like that. She's

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Speaker 1: never liked me since I've been in this house. She

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Speaker 1: didn't always been tripping there, and since I came up

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Speaker 1: your mama stupid. So your mama sitting up in here

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Speaker 1: and listening. Why you would make this up? Now there

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Speaker 1: are people who have made stuff, But why you would

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Speaker 1: what you don't understand. Your mother's support coming through. Get

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Speaker 1: yourself some help, get yourself some count started going to

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Speaker 1: some faith based church. Don't to which one you go to,

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Speaker 1: what kind your relationship together with God? But stay away

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Speaker 1: from this man. Continue to press your charge. Clear the

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Speaker 1: house of your niece and anything else. And her own daughter.

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Speaker 1: This man molested not only her, but her daughter, the

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Speaker 1: daughter of the daughter. You see what I'm saying. He

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Speaker 1: not only the same man molested my daughter, but my niece.

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Speaker 1: Same man not only molested my daughter, but my niece.

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, I thought you said her daughter. Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: the daughter of the mother that wrote the letter. And

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Speaker 1: then the granddaughter. He also molested the daughter's daughter. The

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Speaker 1: victims started, yes, yes, the one who wrote the letter,

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Speaker 1: he molested her daughter her too. Now that's why they

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Speaker 1: went to court. That's why they went to court. Right now,

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Speaker 1: all my comments that could be all, yeah, this is horrible.

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Speaker 1: You know this is. This is horrible. It's just like,

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Speaker 1: I want to keep her kids away from their grandmother,

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Speaker 1: but hey, keep him out of harm's what if she

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Speaker 1: has a man around and all of that. New No,

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Speaker 1: absolutely not. I'm I'm i'm, i'm. I'm so ticked at

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Speaker 1: Dispot because you're gonna do this to my daughter and

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Speaker 1: my granddaughter. That's why I'm so angry with Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's try would be bad. Okay, you're listening to Steve

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