Bad Boys, Bad Boys: What Cha’ Gonna Do?

I am looking for a little help. On more than one occasion a freind has asked me to help talk to their young daughter about the guy she is with. The story is almost always the same. Everyone in her air space knows he's not the kind of guy she needs to be with. He's got several other baby's moma's. No job, a record and she thinks she is the one woman who will make it right.

I've tried telling them "What do you think he told his other baby's momas? 'Oh I'm just going to knock you up and walk away.' No, he told them the same thing he is now telling you. Otherwise they wouldn't have slept with them.

I try asking them what they want their future to look like and ask them how he's going to fit into that picture.

I have always considered myself articulate and persuasive but I have never - not once - talked a girl out of the wrong guy. Do you have any tips, ideas ... anything? I'll take a Hail Mary pass at this point.

Talk to me.