Why do they make that distinction but yet not find it valid enough to look at it?
"Was this pregnancy planned?" is a relatively simple question. There are weird cases where it's hard to say "planned" or "unplanned" (like someone I know, who was planning to have kids until she lost her job, got back on the pill, and found herself pregnant) but generally it's a straight-forward question.
"Was this child wanted", given all the complexities we've discussed, is not. How one would determine the wantedness or lovedness of a child, or attempt to measure percentages on that, I have no clue, and I'd be very suspicious of any attempt to do so.
In short, despite a few tricky cases, planned vs. unplanned is not a subjective question. Wanted vs. unwanted is.
who do, in fact, also question the validity of the number and the tricky ways that's interpreted/able to be gathered
Please point me to the experts who dispute that about half of all pregnancies are unplanned.
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Date: 2007-05-15 07:23 pm (UTC)"Was this pregnancy planned?" is a relatively simple question. There are weird cases where it's hard to say "planned" or "unplanned" (like someone I know, who was planning to have kids until she lost her job, got back on the pill, and found herself pregnant) but generally it's a straight-forward question.
"Was this child wanted", given all the complexities we've discussed, is not. How one would determine the wantedness or lovedness of a child, or attempt to measure percentages on that, I have no clue, and I'd be very suspicious of any attempt to do so.
In short, despite a few tricky cases, planned vs. unplanned is not a subjective question. Wanted vs. unwanted is.
who do, in fact, also question the validity of the number and the tricky ways that's interpreted/able to be gathered
Please point me to the experts who dispute that about half of all pregnancies are unplanned.