I Want Another Child

Dr. Laura Call of the Day

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4.4 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Dr. Laura helps single mom Emma understand the harm that can come if she doesn't start putting her daughter's wellbeing ahead of her own desires. Email questions or comments: [email protected] - Participate on the radio program: call 1-800-Dr-Laura / 1-800-375-2872 or make an appointment https://www.drlaura.com/make-an-appointment.

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0:00.0	Thanks for listening to my call of the day podcast. You can hear my live radio program Monday through Friday from two to five PM Eastern time on serious XM.
0:10.0	I'm going to love it. Welcome to the program.
0:13.0	Hi, Dr. Laura. Thank you.
0:16.0	Thank you. What can I do for you?
0:20.0	Well, I'm 41 and I have a seven year old daughter. I've never been married and I would like to have the option of having another baby in the future, which as a 41 year old.
0:40.0	Have you ever listened to this program before?
0:44.0	This is my second day listening.
0:52.0	You think it's okay for women to intentionally have babies without dads?
1:02.0	It was, uh, no, I think it's okay. It happens.
1:08.0	But I like to intentionally robbing.
1:11.0	I'm wrong intentionally robbing a kid of a dad. That sounds okay to you.
1:16.0	Oh, no, he, uh, my daughter's.
1:20.0	Father isn't her life.
1:23.0	So, um, I'm the primary caregiver and he does see her.
1:30.0	Uh, on a schedule every other weekend.
1:33.0	So, uh, no, children do a lot better with both parents and their lives. I do agree.
1:40.0	But I was not married.
1:42.0	Then why aren't you two together? I have my daughter.
1:46.0	Why aren't you two together?
1:51.0	Uh, it's just, uh, it didn't work out. Uh, he's not, he's not who I thought he was.
1:58.0	I, it was more of a sling. I knew him from work for, for several years.
2:05.0	And we got together one summer, but, uh, he, he, he didn't turn out to be the person I thought he was.
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