An unwanted child almost never turns out to be a resented baby. This seems to be borne out statistically:
(a) There is no solid evidence that a child's being unwanted during pregnancy produces child abuse.
(b) According to one study, 90% of battered children were wanted pregnancies.[2]
(c) Some writers have argued that there is a higher frequency of abuse among adopted children—who were undoubtedly wanted by their adoptee parents—than among those who are unadopted.[3]
In his voluminous and scholarly study on the moral, political, and constitutional aspects of the abortion issue, Professor Krason summarizes his findings concerning the argument from unwantedness by pointing out that "the factors causing child abuse cited most frequently by the researches are not 'unwantedness,' but parents' lack of social support from family, friends and community, hostility to them by society, based on a disapproved sexual and social pattern of existence, and—most commonly—their having been abused and neglected themselves when they were children.