[beaversmom]

Why wouldn't this idiot have gotten her tubes tied? It sounds like she's going to kill the little girl if someone doesn't intervene. What a horrible situation for a defenseless baby to be in.

[InvisibleChurch]

Ann Landers said it was fine to use the pill as long as you held it between your knees.

[Arthalion]

Sounds like my sister. She always said that she disliked babies (too dirty...smell funny...take too much time), but wound up getting pregnant when her pill failed. She wanted an abortion, but her husband refused to allow her to do it. She wanted to put the baby up for adoption, but her husband wouldn't allow that either. She refused to discuss names with her husband, refused to allow him to decorate a nursery, and when the baby was born refused to breastfeed or do much at all to care for the baby. She wouldn't change diapers (she actually loaded the baby into the car and drove across town to have our mom change them on several occasions), was very verbally abusive, and showed zero motherly instinct.

After about six months, her husband finally realized that she wasn't going to "grow out of it" and demanded that she leave. She surrendered all parental rights, they dissolved their marriage, and she hasn't seen the kid since (that was seven years ago). Her husband has since remarried, and today has several additional kids with his new wife.

Some people just aren't cut out to be parents. My sister is one of the nicest, most intelligent people you will ever meet. She is a veterinarian, regularly attends church, served in the Army for a stint, and is incredibly charitable, friendly, and outgoing. She simply had none of the "wiring" required to be a mother, and had no clue how to be one and no interest in learning. She's remarried herself nowadays, and my brother in law is a very nice guy who also has no interest in raising children (he once told me that it's partially physical...he can't have kids of his own).

The problem, I think, is that society DOES push people into parenthood who really aren't cut out for it, and who clearly state that they don't want it. When someone says "I don't want to have children", people should NOT be surprised when they are pressured into having them and end up resenting or disliking those kids. I firmly believe that God put us all here to play a role in the world, but I do NOT believe that all of our roles must include parenthood. I have three of my own and love them dearly, but not everyone needs to take that path in life.

[durasell]

Need to see picture of baby. It might be a hideously ugly kid.

[PISANO]

The ME generation on full display. PPD my ass, she is nothing more than selfish.

A mother who feels the way this woman does about her own baby is one pathetic creature!

[Twinkie]

Send the baby to me, I'll take care of her. I'm a sixty-year old woman who has raised a son who is now 40 years old. Somehow I managed and would be glad to care for a baby either for good or for a while to give this woman a break from her perceived burden.

I'm not her judge, but this situation sounds bad for everyone concerned. The years get by so fast, and, too soon, children are gone and the house is SO quiet. If one has alienated their child or children, I would imagine that the silence in a house would be deafening if a kid had been treated so miserably they never came back home again.

Jesus said it right, the times are so evil that the love of many has grown cold, and the abortionists have created a climate where natural affection is a shadow of what it once was.

[ladyinred]

Was this horrible or what? I read this in our paper this morning as well. Too bad she didn't let Ann know where to contact her because this baby needs to be taken from this selfish nutcase yesterday!

[RightWhale]

Why be married if she didn't want kids? Isn't kids the point?