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Since I was 15, yes. Still with the mom over two decades later. She had to take a year off high school and skipped college. I graduated on time and got academic

Since I was 15, yes. Still with the mom over two decades later. She had to take a year off high school and skipped college. I graduated on time and got academic scholarships to cover tuition for university. A hard start; I don’t recommend it. I like how things turned out, and I like who I am and my history is a major part of that. But man, things were hard and many choices were driven by immediate needs over long term planning; this hurt income for a long, long time.

quickthrower2 6y ago
Having a kid that young your life is going to be determined a lot by the support of your immediate and extended family. Can a 15 year old dictate how they want their kids to be raised like a 30 year old with their own means, when they are reliant on everyone else for both child raising help and financial support? Can't imagine how tough it is in every way.
- sethammons 6y ago
  We had little to no support from parents. Having full support of immediate and extended family would have been really, really helpful. Instead, my dad's girlfriend decided to kick my then-girlfriend-now-wife out when we were living at my dad's, my mom did the same, her dad was not in the picture, and her mom was at best a terrible room mate with mental issues. We were able to finally (through help provided by my best friend's dad) rent our own place at age 19. From there, my wife worked 2-3 jobs at a time while I had 1-2 part time jobs while being a full time student (one was doing php programming which would eventually lead to the way out of poverty). I eventually got my degree (BS Business Admin, minor CS) where I worked for the same friend's dad selling insurance, then went out to be a financial advisor with Edward Jones, did some construction work, got my teaching credential and taught inner city high school math (very rough), and all the while through those years I worked on programming/web-dev as a hobby. After losing my job as a teacher, I was able to work with a recruiter and able to get my first real programming job. We are now well adjusted upper middle class people and my wife is a stay at home mom and homemaker. Quite a wild ride!

quickthrower2 6y ago

Having a kid that young your life is going to be determined a lot by the support of your immediate and extended family. Can a 15 year old dictate how they want their kids to be raised like a 30 year old with their own means, when they are reliant on everyone else for both child raising help and financial support? Can't imagine how tough it is in every way.

sethammons 6y ago
We had little to no support from parents. Having full support of immediate and extended family would have been really, really helpful. Instead, my dad's girlfriend decided to kick my then-girlfriend-now-wife out when we were living at my dad's, my mom did the same, her dad was not in the picture, and her mom was at best a terrible room mate with mental issues. We were able to finally (through help provided by my best friend's dad) rent our own place at age 19. From there, my wife worked 2-3 jobs at a time while I had 1-2 part time jobs while being a full time student (one was doing php programming which would eventually lead to the way out of poverty). I eventually got my degree (BS Business Admin, minor CS) where I worked for the same friend's dad selling insurance, then went out to be a financial advisor with Edward Jones, did some construction work, got my teaching credential and taught inner city high school math (very rough), and all the while through those years I worked on programming/web-dev as a hobby. After losing my job as a teacher, I was able to work with a recruiter and able to get my first real programming job. We are now well adjusted upper middle class people and my wife is a stay at home mom and homemaker. Quite a wild ride!