Sex is a basic human drive. She may not have expected to fall pregnant as she did or they may have used a form of protection which failed. In case you didn't notice, her mother had just died. Teenagers are not in their right minds and don't have a fully developed prefrontal cortex until age 25. Their brains are still growing and developing synapses.
Mariana accidentally created an explosion that killed two people; one of whom was her beloved mother. She burned a scar on her arm that she was unable to feel. This is a massive trauma. Falling pregnant is emotional damage on top of it, and how does she respond? As a little child, she runs away.
Psychological studies tell us that when people have this sort of trauma, their emotional development stops. Mariana, whose middle name we never learn (Mariana Sylvia?), is stuck at the emotional development of the age at which she lost her mother. She's a teenager in a woman's body, unable to move beyond the same response of a child: she asks John Corbett to run away with her to address this situation in the same way she's dealt with every problem since she accidentally killer her mother and her mother's lover, by running from it.
Mariana was clear about not wanting to have a baby. For some reason Mariana must have changed her mind. That was her choice, she gave birth and ran away two days later. Mariana/Sylvia later clearly explained her reasons for leaving to her daughter: 'I left you because I was scared you'd be like me...that you'd come out like me.' Then she asked for forgiveness.
Here's the thing you're really saying in your post: YOU would never give up your child for adoption. Well, now. This film is not about YOU, is it? Then again, consider this: if you'd just killed two people, your mother and her boyfriend, do you suppose you might think you were an awful person and didn't deserve to have a baby? Or that you might fear that she would turn out to be horrible, like you (in the film, one does not know you personally)?*
*One wishes to point out that here a young woman, 17 or 18 years old, did not want a child gave birth to please the father, thus allowing him to experience parenting. She is still being criticised for abandoning the baby, which she did not want. Can we females ever get cut a break? Will the double standard never expire? She had the baby and gave it up, still that's not enough for you self-righteous sanctimonious prigs? At this point it's not about rights for the fetus, it's about controlling women and their actions. You're all out of the closet now. We know the truth about everything.
Mariana may as well have had a termination, considering the amount of grief she's getting about her personal decisions. Please give the world a break from your hypocrisy, anti-women folks.
It's terminally sickening how no woman can ever please the carping antiabortion crowd. Women must continue to make the choices that are right for themselves. It's clear that is the only way a woman can see her way clear to living the right life for herself. The self-righteous attitudes in this thread are truly nauseating.
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