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Originally Posted by dr wadd
Let me throw in a little hypothetical situation for you here. As I mentioned above, in this instance it would seem that this girl could have gone to her mother. But there will be situations in which telling the parents could cause more harm then good if the parents were the sort who would react to it in the wrong way. If you have the possibility of that scenario I do not feel that there can ever be an obligation for the parents to be informed.
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But now all this is over and done with, the girl is still this woman's daughter, and as she is still legally a child, the mother is responsible for her. The mother will have had a great deal of responsibility to bear in managing the consequences of this pregnancy, whether it was allowed to progress or not. We are beginning to discuss this in isolation from the wider implications, and I don't think it's right to try to define the 'rights' of this girl or her school to handle this situation without reference to her mother if we are not also going to discuss how this might infringe the longer-term rights and responsibilities of the mother.