Dad moving in with GF, causing major grief!?

Friend Sophie (17) parents split when she was toddler moved to city with mum re work. She moved back to our rural area just to be near her father last year. He has tiny flat so she couldn't live with him so she stays at the hotel where she works. Dad has always been alone until recently he met a woman with children and they are going to get buy a house together to raise her kids. Sophie is devastated, I've never seen her so upset. There is no room for her at the house. At first she got on with dads GF but then it broke down. Dad had said to her we're buying a family home, which was a knife in Sophies heart. What words of advice can I give to her dad and how do I comfort Sophie, her eyes are holding back big pools of tears!

I see more of her dad than I see her and I wonder if he realises how much she is hurting which is why I wondered about talking to him but I don't want to make matters worse. He did spend regular time with her while she was growing up.

i wouldn't speak to her dad, it's none of your business really & he could tell you so! just be there for your friend; let her cry & support her as much as you can. i can understand her broken heart; that he calls his g/f & her children his family & not her! did he have much contact with her as she was growing up? now's the time for her to show who's the most adult in all this. she's got her whole life in front of her & should be living it for herself - not trying to repair damage that was done such a long time ago. try to encourage her to prove she's not a child who needs her daddy anymore, but to be polite etc with him & his new "family". the more she does, the more she'll realise she doesn't really "need" him to be her daddy, but could have him as a friend. i hope it all works out for her. diane.

tell her dad she is her child only and his first family and she is her responsiblity .you cant get away from that. and tell him how your friend is living where she is and other things .tell your friend that he will come to her and take her . dont be upset i am with you . and divert always her mind to work or some thing else .and if he dint come say her that think your father is dead . and leave hapily with her mother by providing her basic neccessities of life i think her father would realise his mistakes but lately .

shes 17 she has a place to stay in shes got access to food washing and communication. why would she want to ive with her dad and be part of another family when she has her own life money in the bank a job, it wont be long before shes settling down with a family of her own. so she may enjoy her freedom now rather than waste it on a magical christmas feast.