Kianna wants to put her baby up for adoption, but her baby daddy Zac wants her to keep it - so he can form a father-son relationship with his kid, he claims If there's one lesson we take away from "16 and Pregnant" each week, it's that having a baby when you're still in high school is a near impossible feat.
And Kianna, 17, realizes that.
That's why the Fort Worth, Tex., 12th grader is considering placing her baby up for adoption - so she can go to college and become a veterinarian. It's a dream she knows will never become a reality if she's also caring for a baby.
"One night of fun could ruin everything," says Kianna, who got pregnant after forgetting to take her birth control pills for three days.
But when she shares her plan for adoption with her baby daddy Zac - who is only 15! - he strongly disagrees.
Zac, like Kianna, grew up without a dad. He sees his soon-to-be-born boy as a second chance at that father-son relationship he never got to have.
"I think the main reason I want him is because my dad was never around," Zac tells Kianna, whom he dated only two months before getting her pregnant.
Zac's desire to be a dad would be all fine and dandy if he were older, had a job - heck, if he even lived in the same town as Kianna. Right now, he's 30 minutes away, which doesn't sound so far - but the boy doesn't have a driver's license and still needs to have his own mother shuttle him around.
As Kianna's due date approaches, the reality of keeping her baby is starting to sink in. She once again brings up the topic with Zac, hoping to make him see reason.
"I know I can't provide him with what he actually needs," she tells him.
"He'll have toys," responds Zac.
Um, wrong answer.
The two finally decide to keep the baby under one condition: Zac gets a job and he helps out once it's born.
He swears he will.
Anyone want to take bets now that he doesn't hold up his end of the bargain?
When Kianna tells a friend at school that she and Zac are going to keep their son, the friend rightly grills her on how she's going to do it financially.
"I have $130," Kianna tells her. "That should buy two boxes of diapers."
At that, her friend just rolls her eyes. And so do we.
When Kianna and Zac later tell her mother, a teen mom herself, that they're not going with adoption, she's concerned - but more about what the cost of the baby will do to her wallet.
"I'm already in the hole with Kianna's doctor's appointments," she says.
Sure, it's not Mom's job to financially support her grandson, but she does live in a nice house and drive a BMW, so she's not exactly hurting either. Some formula and diapers - until Zac gets a job, of course - isn't going to break the bank.
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