Again, I do not think she should be the VP. Teenagers get pregnant all the time. If I had raised daughters or sons, I would hopefully have raised them to be able to raise a baby by the age of 17 or 18 and to earn some sort of living. Pregnancy is the default of young people. There have to be all sorts of obstacles put in their way in order to have a chance for it not to happen. A 17 year old in a healthy realtionship getting pregnant is nature's preferred mode. A 13 or 14 year old is a tragedy and a total failure of parental supervision. I would never force a marriage at that age or ever, but I would surely encourage it if the teens were not abusive to each other and both wanted to. How old were people even in my generation when they got married? 17 or 18 or the minute they graduated from high school was very common. How old was your Sicilian grandmother?

We infantilize young people way too much, extend adolescence way too long. She will cope, probably just fine, unless there is abuse involved, in which case get the abusing party out of the picture. mg