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Your Kids Don’t Owe You Anything

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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The Importance of Accepting Your Children

"I think in most of the cases where they reject that relationship is because you were maybe not great," she says. "You don't want them to be cruel or jerks to anybody." In her case, my son was born because birth control is not 100% effective,. But that it wasn't intentional. Does that change your view at all? Oh, I mean, I don't know if you've read the stats on it, but the outcomes for kids who were not wanted, who were basically forced to, to a pregnancy that was basically forced to happen, it's not great.

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