I found out a few weeks ago that my ex (whom I am on friendly terms with) is excited about the possibility of becoming a father. Doesn't sound like too big of an issue, but that's only if you don't know what kind of person my ex is. Allow me to elaborate on the situation a bit more:
- Ex is 21 and has been on welfare since he was 18; he claims he is 'too fat' to work. He had a job once as a temp at his father's workplace and he only got that job because Daddy pulled some strings. A couple weeks later, Ex lost his job because the company didn't need him, and lo and behold, he is sucking on the government tit once again. His GF was trying to light a fire under his ass to get a job and a license, but he doesn't feel like working.
- The GF is 18 and doesn't have a diploma, therefore her work options would be very limited...if she didn't intend to be a SAHMoo.
- Ex is an incredible momma's boy. He's an only child and his mother babies him to a gross degree. She still prepares and serves him his meals like he's a five-year-old, and Ex does expect her to do everything for him except breathe and wipe his ass. Let me put it this way...Ex doesn't want to spend money on a home pregnancy test, sos they are just waiting to see if the GF gets her period. I suggested he call the OB/GYN office at the local hospital and check where the closest women's clinic is so the GF can get a confidential blood test for a relatively low price. Ex's reply was, "Okay. I'll have my mom call them since she knows her way around the hospital". Bwuh? Cue splodeeboom-ness of my head...if he can't even be arsed to call and ask where to get care for his knocked-up GF, how will he handle caring for a kid??
- THe GF wants to keep the thing and she doesn't intend to get prenatal care because there are no women's clinics where they live and she can't get care via her parents' insurance because that would mean her parents would find out she's pregnant (they might try to tell her that having a baby is - *GASP* - not a blessed miracle), so that can't happen.
- This was not a well-thought-out choice either; they threw condoms to the wind once and the withdrawal method did not work as well as planned, so they decided to just fuck without protection since 'she's probably pregnant anyway'.
If this was just a matter of Ex and his retarded GF ruining their lives, I wouldn't care...but it bothers me that two morons like this are going to be put in charge of another person's life is frightening. Ex can't even be bothered to work or to make his own phone calls and he's going to be responsible for a child. I seriously hope she's not pregnant or one of them is infertile, or she miscarries. They are in NO way equipped to care for a house plant, let alone a kid.
Of course Ex is bloody excited about it, because it means he'll have visible proof that he can flaunt that he got laid. All I can say is I'll be far enough away that I won't be getting baby-stalked or hit up for charity babyitting.