Dear Ellie: I'm 18 and have sum of two units older sisters.

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Dear Ellie: I'm 18 and have sum of two units older sisters, 22 and 20 The younger is a religious fanatic, notwithstanding that our family is non-religious. She's also violent.

At 16 my ranking sister got pregnant. She made an appointment at the abortion clinic, unless our other sister found gone out and beat her senseless. Her face was to such a degree swollen, she was unrecognizable. Fearing another pummeling, the pregnant sister carried to time Our middle sibling later gave a backhanded apology unless said, "No sister of mine's getting an abortion!"

I'm now pregnant and want an abortion. I'll have to restrain it a secret until I can secure the money together, but my violent sister might still find not at home I love my niece, unless I think my sister should've been allowed to decide whether to have her. That's also for what reason I feel about my confess situation.

WANTS AN ABORTION

Dear WANTS AN ABORTION: I believe in a woman's right to single out whether to continue a pregnancy, in such a manner long as she decides within the medical and legal time frame. You must come by to an organization that can direct you to a clinic and counseling, without your dangerous sister finding revealed You may need help to stay away from her for a while, perhaps at a woman's shelter, until you're able to face her again. If there's any hint of violence from her, equal threats, you should call the police. She's entitled to her beliefs, still not to commit criminal assault.

I also strenuously suggest that both you and your sister gain good birth control information and make abiding you never have to be in this position again. Contact Planned Parenthood Federation at www.plannedparenthood.org.

Dear Ellie: Instead of "deadbeat dad," I'd like to hear the expression "deadbeat parent." I had to fight legally to be in the lives of my three children. I've willingly paid child support, well before their mother forced deductions end my employer (to humiliate and curb me).

Now, our 15-year-old daughter has arrive to live with me; for more than six month her mother hasn't sent a dime. (She says she has bills, and might throw away her new four-bedroom home and 2005 dainty car.) I'm still paying her almost $1000 a month by means of court order, for all three children.

I have little circulating medium and can't afford to walk back to court. I'm thrilled to have the same of my children with me and glad to give what I do have. if it were not that I still remember my ex throwing at me the derogatory "deadbeat dad" label.

advantageous FATHER

Dear useful Father: You have the personal satisfaction of knowing you've been a seemly dad, and that matters more than your ex's bitter words. I full agree that the term "deadbeat" is unfair and brutal to fling about carelessly, since many fathers like yourself do their best to pay child support and help maintain their children's residences while supporting themselves elsewhere.

National Brotherhood of Father's Rights (www.fathershelphotline.com) is a site hurry by a divorced dad who tenders publications to help fathers work by means of the legal side of separation and divorce.

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