The subtext here isn't that she'll blow the money on video games and booze; it's that she isn't ready to be a parent and will fuck up what is actually a fairly complicated task.
In the process she'll also fuck up her own mental recovery and her attempts to actually finish growing up.
A mentally and emotionally unstable teenager kept up all hours of the night by their new baby will find something to fuck up.
You don't have to deliberately be an asshole to mess up a child, otherwise less people would have issues from their parents. The older they get the more complicated caring for them becomes.
For a case study in how one person's issues can impact their kids, take a look at Charity.
She's a good person and a fairly good mother; but she's a serious control freak for various reasons that drove Molly to act out and eventually run away.
Molly lived on the streets in the middle of winter rather than even speak to her mother.
Think about the snippets we've had so far on their relationship and then imagine a version of her that was significantly less emotionally mature and didn't have counterbalancing forces just as invested as she was in her daughter. That was utterly dependent on someone else because her support network save for one node fell apart.
Then add the spice that her only source of support is one of the people who hurt her the worst, but hasn't come clean yet.
There's an argument to be made that Charity starting a family less than three years after her trauma contributed to her issues with her firstborn daughter now even though she had her shit fairly well put together.
It's difficult to predict how the consequences of the last year will influence her personality, but I do think there will be things she needs to address. I'd expect it to be in most measures worse and more extreme than the problems Charity had.
I'm on board for the financial support, but unless we become her platonic Micheal and adopt the kid ourselves I don't think her keeping the child is a good idea.
Three points worth making
1) Reallife, a lot of kids dont get adopted.
2)IC, whether or not to keep the child is not Molly's decision to make. She can certainly decide for Rosie, but she would be using charms to do so.
3) The history of what happened to Maggie Dresden's foster family the Mendozas, and what happened with both Dresden and Elaine in the foster system suggest that fostering a child is not the safest proposition for someone connected to supernaturals.
There's already a target on their backs.
4) There are canon indications according to the RPG that Molly using black magic was the result of a lowkey plot by
someone.
Sandra Marling was a parttime volunteer at the homeless shelter where Molly served community service for drug possession and befriended Molly there. She was also the chair of Splattercon, and the person who "coincidentally" mentioned the use of fear to bypass addictions to Molly, which got Molly looking into fear spells and mental magic.
According to the RPG, when Dresden went looking, she had vanished so thoroughly afterwards that Dresden, an experienced investigator with magical resources, wasnt able to find her afterwards. That means Rosie's condition is the intended result of someone's plan aimed at Molly.
If she puts any kids up for adoption, someone's going to be interested for leverage.
1)Okay, we have context for Rosie's background.
Golfing buddies is not a working class background at all, given that a golf club membership is easily four or five figures per year, which is more than some people's mortgage payments.
And the pull and resources to get her grades sorted sounds like they are upper middle class.
Definitely better off than the Carpenters, who are not themselves poor, even if Michael is a bluecollar worker.
Which may well be a source of friction with her mother if she's a social climber.
And even if she isnt, if you consider from Mrs Wilson's perspective Molly was arrested for misdemeanor drug possession. Thats enough reason for concern if you care about your kid and she's a drug user.
Then again, she might not know; juvenile criminal records are often sealed.
Gonna need social charms.
2)Rosie seems to be legally an adult, if she's graduating ahead of Molly.
Wonder if she has college plans.
I mean, UChicago IS right there.
3)Is Forthill sensing Molly spending Essence, or is he just detecting the presence of Usum?
He is canonically sensitive to the presence of spirits IIRC.
Or maybe he gets a situational buff.
Loling at Math being a predictable thorn in one's side.
Should probably look at buying down that Nightmare flaw.
technically couldn't we have used the crown on our math test for all the answers? I know I as an idiot would use cosmic power to cheat on math I don't disrespect the forbidden subject just knowing it myself is not on the menu.
If Academics is a significant concern?
We could spend 2XP to go from Academics 1 to Academics 2, which will take us from High School to College.
Another 4XP will take us from Academics 2 to Academics 3, which takes us to Masters level.
Or we could just say fuck it and spend 4XP on an Academics Excellency.
Mmm. Priests are usually called in when they suspect that a building is being haunted.
According to ghost detective shows at least
he might know stuff.
Father Forthill canonically hunted down and killed at least one vampire when he was in the seminary IIRC.
He still has an Eye of Thoth tattoo on his forearm that he and a bunch of associates got.
He's also a qualified lawyer and is canonically able to sense the presence of spirits.
Dude is lowkey impressive.
When the Catholic church was looking for candidates to serve as the local parish priest and contact for the wielder of the Sword of Love, they sent their A-team. Dot underestimate him.
True though I'll note abortion wasn't a mentioned option among the ones she listed so the health complications don't really have anything to do with this. also spell check her not judging just telling ya I spell stuff wrong all the time.
Health complications are a routine element of a lot of pregnancies.
Everything from diabetes to cancer to strokes are a feature of many, many pregnancies, because carrying a second person inside your body is a very stressful event, and a lot of things can go wrong.
Nothing to do with abortion.
