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C. E. Winterland
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1243
Registered: 06-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, November 20, 2003 - 08:23 am: |   |
The Mindsight Book of the Month for December 2003 is Sheila Schmidt's, Pregnant and Blown Off: When Abortion is not an Option
Congratulations Sheila!
Visit the BOM page
Don't forget to buy your copy at Amazon.com or at Barnes and Noble.com
CEW
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Kevin P. Grover
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987
Registered: 03-2002
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Way to go girl!!!! What a job!!!
www.winterwolfpublishing.com |
Laurel Johnson
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2552
Registered: 01-2002
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, January 23, 2004 - 06:00 am: | |
What options are available to a woman who gets pregnant by a man whose first suggestion on hearing the news is to "get an abortion"? And if her love for him far surpasses anything he ever felt for her, what then? The author's prose is pragmatic, sometimes painful, often humorous, and always sensible. She writes in a no-nonsense style, taking each dilemma head on from the viewpoint of practicing physician and woman.
What kind of man would dally with a woman, speak love words with a lying tongue, then dump her when she has his baby growing in her? What sort of man would want his progeny aborted to make life simpler, at least for him? What type of man would turn his back and walk away without a backward glance or thought for mother or fetus? From her knowledge of human frailties, Ms. Schmidt documents in straightforward language and style the types of men who work such anguish on unsuspecting women. This reader understood the message clearly: Any man who lies to get his way in bed, and then abandons a baby he created - not to mention the woman who trusted him - is no kind of man at all. The author laid that message on the line without mincing words. Such men are cowards, pure and simple, and their women are better off without them.
Having babies and struggling to raise them is difficult without a loving and supportive father in the picture. Most single mothers work hard at a full time job to feed and raise their child alone. Even those fortunate enough to get child support from the father have their trials. With child support comes demands from a usually spoiled, childish, unpredictable and unreliable man.
Ms. Schmidt covers all the bases in this honest chronicle of fatherless children and husbandless women. Her advice is always practical, and often poignant. She writes of pregnancy, newborns, toddlers, and school age children with a knowledge that comes only with experience. Her advice on fielding common everyday problems is a primer every woman faced with single motherhood should read.
I liked the author's forthright way of stating facts and presenting information. But this book is not a how-to manual, although it easily could be and maybe should be, for women who see abortion as a non-option. Pregnant and Blown off is much more than that. It's a personal account, written from the heart of a woman whose belief in God and herself reversed a horrid situation through sheer faith and courage. |
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