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Baby Battles
When He Doesn't Want a Child and You Do
By Shel Franco
With determination and communication, motherhood did come to call for Wright, but not everyone is so lucky.
"He gave me four options if I were ever to become pregnant," she says. "Tell him about the pregnancy, have the baby and ruin his life. Tell him, have an abortion and ruin his life. Don't tell him, have an abortion and ruin my life. Don't tell him, leave him and have the baby."
LeClerc tried to put this revelation out of her mind. "I was in love, so I put aside my feelings on the subject and got on with things," she says. "No matter how much I tried not to, I found myself raising the subject every couple of months."
Did the reminder help LeClerc get the child she wanted? Not exactly.
"I no longer have any contact with the man in question; I moved out of town," she says. "I now have five children with a man who agreed straight away with me on the subject on whether to have children, when to have them and how many to have."
"The maternal urge for more children doesn't disappear through will power," says LeClerc. "And if a couple hasdiffering wants in this area, someone, somewhere is going to have to make a sacrifice."
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Re: Baby Battles by Liz on 12/24/2009 04:34PM
I wonder if Scott Peterson cooked, did his own laundry and respected the women in his life.