What's the perfect time to have a baby? When the urge strikes? After painstaking and meticulous planning? When -- surprise! -- Mother Nature says so?
These questions elicit different answers, depending on whom you ask. We got the real scoop from five mothers who had children at different phases of their lives.
The reasons for their timing vary, but the common thread is that they're all happy with the choice they've made -- and they're embracing the joys and challenges of raising kids with equal enthusiasm.
If a child bride is what the woman longs for, then pregnancy is a natural course, but, to have a young woman coersed into a full term pregnancy is as much an act of aggression as rape. It is mentally cruel and should never be a part of the decision making process for any woman. An ultrasound in an abortion clinic is about the most heinous intimidation a woman could face. It should happen. If ultrasounds help women make decisions regarding abortion, that OPTION should be available on request and scheduled in a separate session. Believing a woman is nothing more than an emotional disaster in regard to abortions is nothing short of discrimination and seeks to depersonalize their life experience that has brought them to this decision.
These questions elicit different answers, depending on whom you ask. We got the real scoop from five mothers who had children at different phases of their lives.
The reasons for their timing vary, but the common thread is that they're all happy with the choice they've made -- and they're embracing the joys and challenges of raising kids with equal enthusiasm.
If a child bride is what the woman longs for, then pregnancy is a natural course, but, to have a young woman coersed into a full term pregnancy is as much an act of aggression as rape. It is mentally cruel and should never be a part of the decision making process for any woman. An ultrasound in an abortion clinic is about the most heinous intimidation a woman could face. It should happen. If ultrasounds help women make decisions regarding abortion, that OPTION should be available on request and scheduled in a separate session. Believing a woman is nothing more than an emotional disaster in regard to abortions is nothing short of discrimination and seeks to depersonalize their life experience that has brought them to this decision.
