Stephen Dubner
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That's not really right.
Preventing an unwanted child.
It's a decision that happens often when a would-be mom feels like the time and place are not right.
And I would make the umbrella that large because there are a lot of things that can go into that.
Maybe you're very young.
Maybe you've already got kids and the time is not right.
Maybe you or your family are in a bad financial situation.
Maybe you were raped.
So there's a lot.
And there is a body of social science research that argues unquestionably
that when a child is born into a wanted situation, let's call it, whatever the family is.
Yeah, planned.
Well, not even planned necessarily.
That's true.
Because honestly, I'm the eighth of eight.
I don't know how planned I was, but I was very loved.
On my birthday, all my older sisters write about the day I came home from the hospital and how happy they were to have a new baby boy.