...and not presuming to tell them what they should or should not be thinking, I suspect that many of them consider questions of life and death, the relative difficulties in their future lives in rearing children, all that... and that this focus is perhaps sharpened all the more when they find they have become pregnant...(or so the one woman who ever became pregnant by me has told me, so its only secondhand this - sorry, no links...)

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