Teenage Father

12/5/2025

This is quite a potent little docu-drama that introduces us to seventeen year old “John” (Timothy Wead) and his pregnant, fifteen year old, girlfriend “Kim” (Suzanne Crough). With less than six weeks left to go, they are considering adoption as neither are mature enough nor in the financial position to raise an infant, but as the day beckons she starts to have doubts, largely ignores her boyfriend’s calls, and ultimately makes her own decision in which it’s made abundantly clear he has no part. There are some disappointed parental scenarios depicted here, but it is really the contributions from the social worker (Susan Cronkite) that probably deliver the most thrust as her questions reveal just how young and naive both of these characters are. I think that is especially evident as the youn