Valid questions regarding follow through by agencies demand clear answers, for the postpartum period is an opportunity to put reverence for life preachings into practice. Do these agencies support the lives of the mother and fetus they rescue from abortion? Do they educate her for responsible sexuality by contraceptive education? Do they educate her for responsible parenthood so that the born child will, in fact, be able "to laugh and love," as their bumper stickers righteously proclaim? On the contrary, once the preborn becomes the newborn, their interest in the new mother and her child disappears and is redirected to further fetus rescuing. By obstructing abortion rights on clinical and public policy levels, counselors and agencies are perpetuating child abuse.

Findings that some women abuse the child they wanted also highlight the influence of sexism and pronatalism in the perpetuation of child abuse. If child abuse is ever to be eradicated, attitudes toward women's roles, childbearing, and the definition of the family must be transformed. The abys mal failure of these women in a role they had sought with joyful expectations poignantly depicts the destructiveness of sexist and pronatalism upbringing. No doubt, these women learned to accept unquestioningly the major tenets of these destructive ideologies: sex role stereotyping and the views that anatomy is destiny, that the only fulfilling life style for women is motherhood, and that a woman becomes validated as a person only when she bears a child. Despite their harsh backgrounds, these women need not have become child abusers. Had the culture offered these abusive mothers a range of choices in addition to motherhood, they might have become contributors to the community rather than a drain on its resources.

Clear social sanctions for the tenets of the women's movement and the National Alliance for Optional Parenthood would significantly contribute to the primary prevention of child abuse. These tenets include the view that anatomy is not destiny for either women or men, that the family should be redefined as families, a pluralistic institution with a wide variety of lifestyles, and that child free marriage and singlehood merit social sanctions equal to marriage and parenthood. Sexist and pronatalism ideologies continue to be promoted, not only in textbooks and advertising, but in some sex education courses. For example, few family life education courses give equal time to nonparenting life styles. Some are preparing youth for the 1940s by perpetuating the myth that children define a family. Indeed, the substitution of courses on life styles for courses on traditional family life would contribute to the primary prevention of child abuse. By being presented with a varied range of equally sanctioned, fulfilling life styles, youths who learn that they lack generative motivation for childbearing or that they possess the negative attitudes toward childrearing associated with abuse could opt for a child free life style. Other youths who opt for parenthood on the basis of informed choice, rather than social pressure, are more likely to raise children nonviolently.

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