05.08 Free Choice Blog
By Taylor Cruz
The Pregnancy Project by Gaby Rodriguez
Chapter 4
Gaby talks about her home life and how she grew up. She states how her parents got together and how her mother found out that she was pregnant. She explains how her father wasn’t there for her and they’re almost nonexistent relationship. But that he visited her once in a while. He worked on farms and didn't usually see her often, live nearby, and didn't pay child support. Gaby's mother did request that he pay the money, but the courts could never find him. Her father didn’t even attend her quince. The party was something she had to beg for from her family. She also says how one of her brothers, whom she looked up to, drank too much at the party and didn’t dance with her.
I thought it was messed up that Gaby’s father didn’t go to her party. A girl becomes a woman only once. How could he miss something like that? It’s his daughter for crying out loud. He didn’t even pay for anything. It was also sad how she had to literally beg for a party for her fifteenth birthday. Even under the circumstances. Her brother also shouldn’t have the drinking problem that he has. He should have been considerate to Gaby and not drank. At least for one day he could have quit. She still looked up to him even though he became a teenage parent and drank. He tarnished her idolization of him by being inconsiderate.
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