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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy Pro-choice friends...come to Texas Monthly and fight the stupid
http://www.texasmonthly.com/stand-desk/and-bum-steer-yearRe: wendy Davis as winning the bum steer award. We are having a lively abortion debate...essentially women against men. I need some men and women to have my back with facts
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My Pro-choice friends...come to Texas Monthly and fight the stupid (Original Post)
w8liftinglady
Dec 2014
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Fact: unwanted children often abused and neglected, often fail to bond with mother
Dont call me Shirley
Dec 2014
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NoJusticeNoPeace
(5,018 posts)1. I am kicking some dumbshit rightwing ass for you
Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)2. Fact: unwanted children often abused and neglected, often fail to bond with mother
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"
"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"
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)3. Can we nominate Texas Monthly for the "bum steer award"?
w8liftinglady
(23,278 posts)4. LOL...because it is such a left-wing rag?
according to my peers