Dear Pastor,

I am a 16-year-old who has two children and am pregnant with my third. The father of my children is 47. I have been forced to prostitute myself because I don't have an education and my boyfriend doesn't support me and the children. I have slept with many, many men and I do not know who the father of my unborn child is. I'm afraid that if I tell my current boyfriend that I am not sure if he is the father, he will kill me.

I am waiting for your fatherly advice.

M. S., Westmoreland, Jamaica

Dear M. S.,

How is it that you are only 16 and are carrying your third child? The father or fathers of your children should have been arrested. You don't know who has impregnated you because you have been working as a prostitute. You are in big trouble and if it is not your boyfriend who got you pregnant, I hope that he will have mercy on you and help you.

I wonder if you would consider giving up the child you are carrying up for adoption. And I also think that you should consider asking others to help you with the first two children so that you can go back to school. You have been having unprotected sex and by doing so you are putting your life in danger. So, please desist from doing so.

Pastor