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My Pro-choice friends...come to Texas Monthly and fight the stupid (Original Post) w8liftinglady Dec 2014 OP
I am kicking some dumbshit rightwing ass for you NoJusticeNoPeace Dec 2014 #1
Fact: unwanted children often abused and neglected, often fail to bond with mother Dont call me Shirley Dec 2014 #2
Can we nominate Texas Monthly for the "bum steer award"? Downwinder Dec 2014 #3
LOL...because it is such a left-wing rag? w8liftinglady Dec 2014 #4

Dont call me Shirley

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2. Fact: unwanted children often abused and neglected, often fail to bond with mother
Wed Dec 17, 2014, 05:42 PM
Dec 2014
https://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/2722895.html

"Of 1,327 children younger than two in 1986 whose mothers were participants in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 61% were wanted, 34% were mistimed and 5% were unwanted. Planning status is associated with the level of developmental resources the child receives at home: At ages one and older, mistimed and unwanted children score significantly lower on a scale measuring opportunity for skill development and on a scale measuring nonauthoritarian parenting style than their wanted peers; by preschool age, they also have significantly less-positive relationships with their mothers. Measures of the direct effects of planning status on development also indicate that mistimed and unwanted children are at a disadvantage: Those younger than two have higher mean scores for fearfulness than wanted infants and lower scores for positive affect; unintended preschoolers score lower on a measure of receptive vocabulary."

"Other research has revealed that unwantedness contributed to the likelihood of abuse or neglect; 20 one prospective study found that two of the 20 early warning signs of child abuse pertain to unwantedness. 21"
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