[Larry Lucido]

They would prefer not to be here? Geez.

[GonzoII]

"They would prefer not to be here? Geez."

I didn't catch that in the article..I think they would prefer to be here in the normal way.

[Travis McGee]

They would prefer to know their father.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I don't think the point is that they would prefer not to be here. It's that some circumstances of the conception are defective in that they damage the child's sense of personal "rightness" or their bond to their fathers, who after all are half of their natural link to the human race.

I suppose that unfavorable circumstances-of-conception could be rated on on a spectrum, with some that are egregiously bad while others are just somehow experienced as un-whole, fragmentary in some way.

Who could deny that some circumstances are troubling?Seduction, prostitution, trivial sex, vendor insemination, rape, incest, IVF: all of these may result in the conception of a child. Granted that such a child may be glad to be alive, yet they may also "take it to heart" that there was something out of kilter about the way their conception came about, or their missing relationship to their natural father.

Fatherhood is a big biggie. I guess it's almost radical to say that these days.

[metmom]

They didn’t say that. Why are you reading into it?

You come across as blowing off their concerns, just like so many other people do.

Geez, yourself.