I was conceived from rape and it used to bother me but after all the stuff that has happened it just isn't a surprise.

My sister, on the other hand, is pregnant with a child conceived from incestual rape and it's almost driving her mad, but I think that is also because she is going to be a teen mom. So, it almost makes me wonder, how it effects people on the other hand, the women who have to carry the children.

I'm so sorry to hear about your sister.My sister also conceived a child, her oldest son from incestual rape of one of our uncles.She was 16 when she had him. I often wonder how that plays out with her emotionally as well.It was one of my greatest fear to be impregnated by one of those scumbags like my sister was.

I don't think that I would really care. I see that as the rapist's business to be ashamed of and not mine. Depending on upbringing, it could explain a lot. My own mother, for example, would make a lot more sense. Finding out I had been conceived from rape would explain things like subtle feelings of resentment, but I know my parents were married and all that. If anything, my mother used my father to have a child which I believe was her only goal in finding a partner (not because she actually wanted to be happy with him).

I personally think it doesn't play over well because my sister keeps on calling it a "demon child" so I have to remind her that most likely, that kid will never meet it's father, who is also my father, so, all will be fine.

I don't know the whole story about my birth. I do know my parents were married for 25 years before they had me. I look nothing like my father or anyone in his family. I do resemble my mothers family. I also know the neighbors did not think my father was my real father. I'm also an only child.

To me it would be an emotonal roller coaster. The mother knowing how the child was conceived and having mixed feeling about the child. I understand that during a pregnancy created by rape it sometimes causes the victim to rehash the rape over and over again. I think it is awful (saying it mildly) for both the mother and the child. I can't imagine trying to cope with this knowledge so to ever has experienced one or both I send hugs.

I think it would hurt at first, but depending on the environment of family, it could be overcome. Lots of love and acceptance.

My little girl was concieved from such circumstances and has a lot of questions its a day to day war with myself to try and figure out what to tell her. its absolute hell.

Every one on this earth is a gift capable of loving and being loved no matter how we came about. If we were not meant to be here we would not be here. Every child should know this its not how we are made that counts its why we are here and how we choos to live our lives that counts. I don't think my children will know about the rapes ever. But if somhow they found out that is what I would tell them. I think it is awfull to call an innocent unborn baby a demon child. To hate it or to treat it differently. Many babies are born to rape. t olny seems uncoman becous people don't talk about it.
-Silent Wonder

Oh and of coarse it would hurt. Sorry for the obvous truth.

Honestly, I wish I knew more about the circumstances of my birth. It's all a bunch of secrets that I still know very little about. I wish that I could find some kind of record that would give me more information, but I don't even know how to start a process like that.

yes,it would hurt me to know.I guess somewhere I would want to have felt wanted by both parents.But of course this doesnt mean you werent loved and appreciated.Guess it would mess with my head.
I dont know about rape..but i was born the yougest of 10 children into a family that was so catholic and rigid in thinking,that my mom could not use birth control at all.So she basically felt if she became pregnant it wass god's will.maybe it was. mayne not.but i wonder if after all those kids,she really didnt want me......still maybe she did,I dont know....

That was beautifully well said Mamoth and something I believe to absolutely be true.

it would hurt i'm sure. to know that my father took my mother's choice away and i was forever connected to that would weigh on me i am sure. to know that my life began in violence would haunt me as well. i would find it difficult to reconcile sharing his blood.

i am sure of this because although i am not the product of rape i am the product of deceit; and my father was a violent, monstrous man. rape was not unknown to him. at times i find it abhorrent that i carry his blood and i when i consider it, i am glad that i did not pass it on.

i wish i could reframe it in a positive way but this is one aspect of myself that i feel kindly toward, if i could destroy it i would.