# Unwanted Children Unwanted children “I have for a long time felt that the youngest of our four children – thirteen and a half months younger than a brother, and unwanted by me until three months before her birth – has been trying to justify her existence. She is a Phi Beta Kappa, but in her personal life she lacks wisdom and must not think highly enough of herself. I have seen her so depressed that she cried for three days. “I also was an unwanted child – born nine months after my parents’ marriage, to a mother who forfeited her career as a pianist to care for me. She also had a grave illness at the time of my birth, and I’m sure I was neglected in the hospital nursery. Happily ‘birthed’ people don’t understand the deep-rooted decisions a person makes as to whether this is a friendly or unfriendly world. ”This woman’s intuitive sense of the effect on a child of not being wanted is borne out by the scientific literature. Researchers have long linked unwanted childbearing to low birth weight, high infant mortality rates, and poor health and development. Ann Coker, an epidemiologist from the University of Sound Carolina, found that infants born of unwanted pregnancies are more than twice as likely to die within a month of being born than wanted children. The study subjects were married, largely middle-income women who were all receiving prenatal care. Thomas Verny, Preparenting, Kindle Edition.
Posted on: Fri, 09 May 2014 04:39:59 +0000
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