With services across Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Indiana, Real Alternatives offers individualized parenting and pregnancy support. The organization enables women to access confidential counseling and mentoring that emphasizes the sanctity of life. One Real Alternatives success story centers on a young woman whose mother was pressuring her to have an abortion.

1. Real Alternatives - Engaging with
the Parents of Pregnant Teens
Real Alternatives

2. Introduction
• With services across Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Indiana, Real
Alternatives offers individualized parenting and pregnancy support. The
organization enables women to access confidential counseling and
mentoring that emphasizes the sanctity of life. One Real Alternatives
success story centers on a young woman whose mother was pressuring her
to have an abortion.
The Lifeline counselor spoke at length with the mother, who was concerned
that her daughter’s life “would never be the same” and that she would drop
out of school. After an hour, the mother began to have a change of heart,
but the father was not present at the time. This led to a meeting the
following week in which everyone gathered together and discussed the
daughter's options. At the end of the meeting, the father said that he would
provide consent for the daughter to stay in the home and raise her child.
The Real Alternatives-affiliated counselor recounted experiencing a sense of
intense joy when the baby was brought in, and she was able to hold it for
the first time.