Life goes on, he is a good kid but young and easily blinded by the power a willing young lady can hold over him. Some guys fall all over themselves to cater to the whims of a woman who will give up the goods. other guys just seem to tomcat from girl to girl without giving it much thought. My stepson is definitely the former and not the latter as this has consumed him before, almost to his detriment.
personally i think it would be a good experience for him, i was certainly out of the house living 300 miles away from my parents by age 20, no reason he cant do the same.
he will learn one way or another, and i admit, when i was 19-20 years old, i didn't fully appreciate what went into keeping the roof over my head, the lights on and the food stocked up. when i struck out and did it on my own only then did it occur to me just how costly it could be just to live day to day. and, unlike in his scenario, there wasnt a kid involved in the picture for me. he will have to do all of this while almost constantly being surrounded by a toddler needing all of the things toddlers need like supervision, adult responsibility, diaper changing probably, feeding. Dating a woman with a child is no easy task, i never did that until i met my current wife and even as a grown man closing in on my 40s i still wonder about the sanity of the decision. he will soon find himself caught up in taking the kid to grandmothers house, or taking it to daycare, and inevitably, even if the child's father is involved in the child's life on a limited basis, he is still going to have to deal with that sooner or later. all things for which anyone is ill equipped to handle.
poor guy has holed his own boat and wont realize it until he is up to his nuts in cold sea water.
