The pregnant teen

Ugh. Seriously? You do not PAY for a baby, children are not bought and sold, that is human trafficking. Adoption agencies have been shut down for such practices. The only "payment" you make is the legal fees for the adoption to go through the courts, and in SOME cases the adoptive couple pay for the pregnant girls medical bills during the pregnancy- and here are caveats so that a girl isn't "using" them for their money to pay her bills. Nobody BUYS a baby.

Also, just because she is a teenager in a bad situation, no one is entitled to her baby. It's HER baby.

No one "deserves" to keep somebody else's baby.
No matter how excited they were or even if she promised them they'd get the baby.
That is her own decision and it is perfectly acceptable to change her mind and want to keep HER child- yes, it's sad for the couple but they will eventually adopt another baby, they are not ENTITLED to keep someone else's baby.

The only person entitled to that baby is the girl who is carrying the baby in her body, and any choice she makes about where the baby should be raised is HER choice.

It is very sad for the couple when a girl backs out and does not go through with the adoption, but you have to understand that until you hold that baby in your arms, you don't understand what it will be like. No one really knows how they will feel about it until AFTER the baby is born! We should not fault girls for choosing to keep their own child. After all it is only natural to feel a bond with the child you carried for nine months in your body. If she chooses adoption that is an amazingly sacrificial choice she makes for the good of her baby. But if she chooses to parent her child, that is also a totally normal and acceptable choice.

A person should never be made to feel like they are a bad person for wanting their child, realizing the bond they have, and knowing there is no way they could ever part from their own child. That's crazy.