I have a very close friend who gave her daughter up for adoption at birth...she was 15 when she got pregnant. She hid her pregnancy from her parents until she was 6 months along - when she could no longer hide it, she was "hidden" for the next 3 months until the birth of her little girl, then forced to give her up for adoption - by forced, I mean, she would have had absolutely no support from her family if she had no given the child up for adoption. My friend, now 33, has 2 beautiful children who are the light of their grandparents' eyes, and I'd often wondered why it would have been SO shameful, in their eyes, for their teenage daughter to have had a child and raised her - SO shameful, that NO ONE else in the family, including my friend's grandparents, even knows to this day that this little girl exists............. so I asked her one night, 8 years in to our friendship. She broke down and told me that the reason she was forced to give the child up for adoption and hide her pregnancy was because her BIO BROTHER was the father!!!!! I was in complete shock - this is a "normal," close family - NOTHING to indicate anything like this could ever have been a possibility..... but it was - it happened. Unconsensual on her part, but it happened.........