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One of Tyler Baltierra's most significant life choices is described. The Teen Mom: The Next Chapter star talked about his erratic relationship with his own father, Butch Baltierra, and why he and his wife, Catelynn Lowell, chose to place their daughter Carly, who is now 15 years old, in foster care after she was born in 2009.
"With just not having my dad around, it has a lot to do with why I even placed Carly in the first place," Tyler, who also has daughters Novalee, 9, Vaeda, 5, and Rya, 3, with Catelynn, explained the tough choice in the Feb. 20 Teen Mom episode.”
"I was just so scared to screw it up," he continued.
However, Tyler said that he and Catelynn, who married in 2015, feel complete enough to raise their three younger kids now.
He clarified, "I believe that was a driving force behind Cate and me wanting to heal ourselves before we had more children."
Without a doubt, Tyler was impacted by his father's battles with addiction and his absence from his life; in the episode that aired on February 20, Tyler disclosed that he hadn't seen Butch in five years. However, now that he is a parent, Tyler has grown to feel more sympathy for him.
Tyler explained, "I genuinely love my dad more the older I get." "You can't hold too much against him because I have my own children, and I just know that he was younger than me and didn't have half the resources that I had."
Tyler expressed his love for his three youngest daughters in another scene of the show, saying, "If I could just pause life right now and just, like, stay here for as long as I can, I would do it."
And Tyler exclaimed, "That's the highest honor," when Catelynn referred to him as a "great daddy."
Shortly after the couple revealed their current relationship status with their daughter's adoptive parents, Tyler goes into detail about his and Catelynn's situation with Carly.
Last month, Catelynn told E! News that Carly's parents, Brandon and Teresa Davis, had "completely closed the adoption." "We have questioned her parents and will keep asking, 'Is Carly refusing to communicate?'" We would say, "Hey, if you ever want to have it, we're here and we totally understand that all of this could be hard for you," even though it would hurt if Carly didn't want contact.
"It's my responsibility as a birth mother to demonstrate to this child that I'm always fighting for communication, because that's ultimately what's best for her, if that's what she wants," Catelynn continued, "if it's just her parents acting out of fear."
