It’s often been proposed that letting teens spend more time with babies would make them reconsider having sex.  Now one aunt is asking for advice on whether her own plan to change her 15 year old niece’s mind about keeping her baby by subjecting her to little children would work, or backfire.

Carolyn Hax says try it, at least for a little while:

Why not just for a week or two? Then she’d get to see small-kid reality up close, tempers would have time to cool, and you wouldn’t be asking the entire world of your very good sport of a husband. If it goes well, then you can approach your husband, then sister, then niece, about extending.

Just don’t use this as a chance to lobby for abortion. If Niecey asks, then speak your mind, but raising abortion yourself after she has made up her mind is uncomfortably close to pressure. Besides being wrong on its own, pressure challenges people to dig in for the wrong reasons. Let your home life do the talking.

So what do you think?  Would a house full of preschoolers and younger deter a 15 year old from wanting to raise her own baby by herself?  Or would the teen find that being around little ones non-stop would “reaffirm a decision to give birth and perhaps keep a baby,” as one commenter suggested?