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13yo DD lost virginity

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Completelydevastated · 02/11/2025 18:24

I am the mother to a beautiful 13yo girl who suffers from poor mental health.

Last year she attempted an OD and has been medicated and seeing a psychiatrist since. She has always had body image issues, for no reason might I add, she's beautiful and funny and intelligent and slim. During this past year we became, or as I thought, close. I always check in on her MH, we always say I love you, have hugs, shop, watch movies.

A month ago she started going out with a very clingy and needy 15 yo. He is in foster care and it raised red flags immediately as he was telling her he loves her, begging her not to leave him etc.. I was very cognizant of the age gap, at 13 years old a 15 year old is in a much different place developmentally. Immediately he started saying things like 'I'm glad I'm still a virgin even though all my friends arent' and 'if I got a girl pregnant we wouldn't get an abortion'. Obviously I was worried but this is her 1st bf and so I put it down to being overprotective and worried I would spoil her fun.

On Friday we went away for a family Halloween weekend, and 30 minutes after checking into our accommodation my DD told me they'd had sex, outdoors, in broad daylight and without protection. My entire world just collapsed. She had her 1st kiss 3 weeks ago and lost her virginity 3 weeks later.

I completely lost it and my daughter became emotionless and combative. Her dad was devastated.

She has been on the pill for the past 8 months due to suspected endometriosis to manage the symptoms and she seems to have emboldened by this. However that doesn't protect her 100% so now we have a potential pregnancy to deal with.

We cut our weekend short and drove back yesterday, today I had to visit the boys home and explain why we were there because the cowardly little shit couldn't explain to his foster family why we were coming to speak to them. The foster father was nice, and the boy stayed out of sight entirely. I wanted to see him, wanted him to see tge devastation on our faces that he played a part in.

The issue now is my daughter, she seems not to realise that she's thrown a grenade into the middle of our family. Doesn't give a shit that she could be pregnant and in her words 'I'll get an abortion'. I told her this is going to complete change our relationship and she said we didn't have one anyway. Im so fucking hurt by her.

She also stated she doesn't know why we are angry, this doesn't impact us. I feel like I'm living on another planet.

My 13 yo might be pregnant, didn't think about stds, the fact they were both commiting an offence... she just doesn't care that her family is falling apart. The only emotion she showed was when we told her the relationship was over and they were not to see one another again.

Her entire school year knows she might be pregnant and I'm convinced this is the only reason she told us. But Ive realised that she hates me through all this, she genuinely absolutely hates me... and I'm wondering why I'm still here tbh. If it wasn't for debt that we are in as a result of providing for her I could walk away, but now I'm stuck here until 2028 when we are debt free.

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CaptainMyCaptain · 04/11/2025 14:43

Which poster has encouraged it?

Pinkpoems · 04/11/2025 20:52

I don’t think the op can come back. Her family has fallen apart clearly….

rainbowsandraspberrygin · 04/11/2025 21:19

atmywitsend1989 · 04/11/2025 14:39

Allowing and encouraging your 13 year old child wouldn't have been rightneither. The poster could have been calmer but it's much worse for a parent to encourage sexual activity

I don’t think she’s been encouraging it?!

Frequency · 04/11/2025 21:49

No one has encouraged underage sex, but the way OP handled it was disgusting and damaging.

The correct response, imo, having raised 2 teenage girls to adulthood, would have been to firstly, and most importantly, check the child is ok and that it was consensual. The reassure them that today's news is tomorrow's fish wrapper (re the whole school knowing). Only after that do you gently and calmly explain the dangers of unprotected sex and why the age of consent is 16. And you separate your feelings of anger and disappointment from your feelings towards the child.

At the end of the day, as OP has discovered, if teenagers want to have sex, they will find a way, short of locking them away until they turn 16 all you can do is ensure they understand consent, have the confidence to say no, know how to stay safe and know that they have a safe and trusted adult who they can turn to for anything without judgement.

RosenWilloughby · 06/11/2025 15:01

Staringintothevoid616 · 02/11/2025 19:50

eh? Lots of 13 year olds have boyfriends!

Lots of people do lots of things they shouldn't be doing. And encouraging 13yo children to have boyfriends / girlfriends is just irresponsible. They should be studying and doing healthy extra-curricular activities. Young teens do not have the maturity or stability to enter into relationships. Ugh.

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