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When my daughter was 16 and just out driving on her own, she and a group of friends met up at Walmart. There was a woman with a box of puppies out front and the girls decided they would each take a "free" puppy, bring it home and raise it. They would all be "closer" to each other because their puppies were siblings. [ The puppies were apparently beagle/german shepherd mixes, by the way.]
Out of six puppies, one family kept them, four families gave them away (or dumped them) and one turned it in to a no-kill humane society so a home could be found where it was wanted. [That was me, over my daughter's protests.]
I know babies aren't puppies, but these girls didn't give much more thought to the whole situation than my daughter and her friends did. And their parents will be left to make the unpopular decisions and/or "clean up the mess".
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