She is a real estate agent, he’s a physics professor. Robin and Jeff St. John met in 1990, on the workplace. Graduated in psychology, Robin worked in the school where Jeff was teaching in California. The Texan already had a little girl, Britney, that she raised on her own. And when she became pregnant with their son Dylan, Jeff married her and followed her to Texas, in Northern Dallas-Fort Worth. For the couple, "California is not a good place to raise children. There are too many distractions. Gangs are more active. "

For almost twenty years, the St. John devoted themselves to their children. It’s in order to be able to offer them more that Robin became a real estate agent. Seeing "each year young people throw their lives away" at school, Jeff was an attentive father. Britney did basketball, cross-country running and was a cheerleader. Dylan did football and later show choir. "He does not smoke, he does not drink and at 19, he always tells us he loves us before leaving home for college," says Robin.

At 23, Britney just got married, with a beautiful ceremony and party that cost approximately 20,000$ (paid by her parents and not groom’s one, according to the US tradition). As she attended college and has a job, she’s also buying her first house. "We are very pleased to see our children blossom", says Jeff, who convinced his wife to go to Costa Rica for their twentieth wedding anniversary on December 31.

"DAD, I'M PREGNANT"

Yet one thing has not gone as planned in the St. Johns’ dreamlife. "By the time she finished high school, Britney refused all scholarships she had applied to and wanted to follow her then boyfriend to the university where he was accepted as a baseball player. Our daughter, who headed the cheerleaders team and was dating the quarterback of her football team, beautiful and intelligent, did not want to get her studies financed. I had the impression she was going crazy", exclaims Jeff.

He had an explanation only the day of the graduation ceremony. "Dad, I'm pregnant." "Of course, my first reaction was anger, confesses Jeff. But I think I did not react too badly because I was relieved to see why she reacted as she did the last few weeks". "As a mother, I knew for a month, but I wanted to give her time to make her decision", adds Robin, who swears she wasn’t putting pressure on her daughter to keep the baby even if she opposes abortion, like her husband. (…) Britney St. John ultimately decided not to abort and her parents helped her raise her son.































 

A COUPLE POLITICALLY MIXED

The Republican young grandmother does not support Mitt Romney at 100%. She thinks the Republican party is too braced on social issues. "I would have voted for Libertarian Ron Paul if I could". Her choice finally fell on the "less worst" candidate: Romney. In Obama’s legacy, what bothers her most is the health system reform. She does not want to pay more than she already spends on health insurance for her family.

Democrat, her husband is obviously not on the same wavelength. "Our health care costs are too high because of the privatization of the system by Reagan in the 1980s". Feeling "more conservative than before for living in Texas so long", Jeff is still very uncertain. The House of Representatives being Republican and blocking many of Obama's proposals, he could vote Romney in a try to improve the political system.

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