Jacqueline ElliottLeadership Strategist | CEO, Mother, Wife, Legacy-Builder

MY FATHER ABANDONED ME

18 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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First-person narrative from a YouTube video where the speaker describes becoming pregnant at 15 and having a baby at 16. The clip depicts a late-night confrontation with the speaker's father—who learned of the pregnancy from the mother—pressuring for an abortion while the speaker resists, imagining the child's potential (e.g., 'Oprah Winfrey' or 'president'). The father is described as an immigrant who avoids police/officials, shaping the family's response to the pregnancy.

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Got pregnant. 15. Oh, at 15? Yeah. And had the baby at 16. And I'm like, daddy's little girl.
Daddy doesn't even know I've kissed a.
Boy kind of thing.
And it's.
Like five in the morning. Somebody's knocking out the door. I'm like, what the heck is this? So I open the door, my dad's there, and I'm like, sh. T. Oh, my God. My dad's not that much taller than me. So it's like this little man in the shadow. And my dad's like, your mother tells me you're pregnant. Ah, you're having sex. I was like, please, like, let's go get the abortion. I'm like, no, no. I'm like, but, Daddy, what if this baby could be Oprah Winfrey? You know? That's a good way to think about it. Yeah. What if this baby could be the next president of the United States of America?
And my dad's like.
Well, you know, come on, let's go. And I said, nope, I know my rights. My dad's an immigrant. When it comes to police and immigrants.
We don't want no parts of it. Like, no. No police, no medical, no lawyers, nothing.
Just.
My dad was like.