Charlotte Foster
Family & Pets

Teen mum takes her one-year-old son as her date to prom

A teenage mother has gone viral after she made the very sweet decision to take her one-year-old son to her prom as her date.

Melissa McCabe, 16, was unable to find a babysitter to look after her son, Arthur, on the night of her senior prom. 

So instead, she shared a video to TikTok of her and Arthur dressed in their finest outfits to attend the dance together. 

She captioned the video, "Everyone going to prom with their boyfriend whereas I took my biggest blessing."

 
The video, which has racked up over 1.6 million views, has been inundated with positive comments from social media users who praised Melissa for being the "best mother" and called Arthur "the cutest".

Despite the influx of supportive comments, not all the messages Melissa received through pregnancy and motherhood have been so positive. 

She told the Liverpool Echo, "When I found out I was pregnant obviously I was really young. It was hard because everyone told me I was ruining my life and I wasn’t going to get my GCSEs. So many people make comments when I’m out with him."

"Often people think he’s my little brother and when I tell them he’s mine their attitude completely changes. Older people especially find it disgusting because obviously their way was to get married first and then have kids."

Melissa, who has finished her GCSEs and will be starting college to study heath and social care, wants to break the stigma of teenage pregnancies and being a young single mother. 

Image credits: TikTok

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