Adults who were born with teenage parents, how was your childhood and what is your relationship like now?

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I myself was a teenage parent.
Had my son at 17 after a, very much, unplanned pregnancy. We did what we could with what we had.
I stayed with his mother for some years but we were never right for each other. We didn’t hate each other, we were just staying together for our son.
I’ve always felt bad because my son grew up missing out on a lot of things as a child because we couldn’t afford them or we were working many hours to try to provide.
Luckily my parents had a few pennies to help out. On his mother’s side, they weren’t so well off but took us in so we could live together until we could get a place of our own.

I have a great relationship with my son. I think because we are so close in age, we have similar personalities whereas I have absolutely 0% in common with my father and I only see him occasionally.

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