In season 5, Debbie meets a boy named Derek, who, like many other of Debbie’s love interests, she becomes overly attached to. Debbie wants to feel loved and needed by anyone and everyone who will give her the attention. She goes overboard when she becomes pregnant with Derek’s baby, on purpose, without his knowledge, and refuses to abort. She feels that if she has a baby with him, he will have to love and appreciate her, which we find out in season 6, that that is not the case; Derek flees the state, leaving Debbie a single-mother.