[Howdy]

My goodness, if she was 'just 17' when she had the baby, she must have been 15 and probably only 14 yrs old when she ran away from home and lived with an abusive man. How sad, it is too bad she didn't get taken into foster care then. And I'm not sure, but I'd think a 17 yr old with a baby would get into a home/program for young mothers? Maybe they don't have that in Canada. It is too bad young girls don't know all their options.
But since she didn't know her options, had depression and was homeless, and left the baby with an apparently unwilling (and abusive if this was the same man she ran off to) father, I think the baby was probably much better off being adopted.