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UNWANTED PREGNANCIES
The majority of babies are born to married couples yet between a quarter and a half are not wanted or are unplanned. In addition to these unwanted babies within marriage a sizeable minority are born outside marriage. One study of the blood groups of children and their parents in a South London suburb found that about a third of the children could not possibly have been their father’s and an analysis of the statistics shows that nearly half of all married women attending one major abortion centre in the UK claimed that the baby they were having aborted was the result of extra-marital intercourse. Given that more than half of all women admit to an extra-marital affair (and some have several), and that over 90 per cent of people are sexually active before marriage, there is a very considerable chance of extramarital pregnancies occurring. The unmarried girl has very different problems.
Some research shows that women having abortions are psychologically just like other women but have simply taken more risks or have used inefficient contraceptive methods. Other research suggests that this is too simple a view and that most of the women get pregnant to prove their love for their man, to add satisfaction to a relationship, or to secure a failing one. Some women were found to have got pregnant to punish themselves for sexual misdemeanours or for a previous abortion. Sometimes it is to replace a dead child or a lost boyfriend. On investigation most of the ‘bad luck’ category can and should be re-allocated to other causes. Some of these include:
Uncertainty over sexual identity. A few women have to prove that they are really female by having a baby.
To punish their parents. A teenage girl often wants to punish her repressive parents, especially if they have implied that she is promiscuous when she isn’t. Some of these girls also see having a baby as a way of getting away from home.
Trying to trap an unwilling or hostile partner. This is much less common than it was.
Deliberate non-contraception is remarkably common. Many women either don’t like the method of contraception they are using, or really want to get pregnant, however unsuitably, or follow a moral or religious code that bans contraception.
Personality problems. Women who seek abortions are found to have different views on sex compared with those who go through with their pregnancies. Abortion seekers often don’t see themselves as instrumental in their unplanned pregnancy.
Changes in circumstances after conception – for example the collapse of a relationship.
Partner factors are not all that common but must be considered. Some men deliberately get their partner pregnant to test their own fertility; to try to secure the relationship; to give themselves added personal status; because of an inability to keep away from intercourse during unsafe periods; because of weak personality development; or because of a refusal to let the woman use oral contraception (a virtually 100 per cent safe method), supposedly on religious or medical grounds but really because they fear her fidelity or the demands for sex she might make on them, and so on.
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