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Ladies, please explain this to me...?

A wife has been cheating on her husband for the past ten months. She "discovers" that she's pregnant by her lover (no sex with her husband for the last couple of months).

She tries to explain to her husband that her pregnancy was an "accident " or simply unintentional. However, he doesn't believe her story at all. Her husband files for divorce.

NOTE: The wife has two kids with her husband (son, age7 & daughter, age 5). Also, she has been taking birth control shots since her daughter was born.

Conditions: The wife has been using birth control shots for the past six years (including length of the affair). For the past ten months, she has been sexually active with both her husband and her lover with no pregnancy.

QUESTION: How does she get pregnant without purposely not getting her birth control shots?

Thanks for your response.

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  • 4 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Well considering she got pregnant by another guy, that was a deliberate act and of course the husband is correct is not believing her. She didn't accidentally have sex with someone other than her husband once, much less for ten months.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    No form of birth control is 100% effective, even sterilization procedures (vasectomy, tubaligation).

    The shots are generally very good but they're also only as good as the person who administered them and well as the shot itself and the timeliness of them. There's also other factors such as other medications she may be taking, some drugs such as certain antibiotics lessen the effectiveness of birth control. If the shot is administered late (they're done every 12 weeks) that increases the pregnancy risk. Basically if you wait too long to get your next shot you can get pregnant.

    Not all sterilization procedures "take", so while pregnancy is rare and unlikely it can still happen.

    Laws very by state but the husband even if this child is not his, he could be on the hook for this baby. When a woman is married at the time she gives birth in most states her husband regardless of paternity is deemed the legal father of the baby until a court says otherwise. There's been a case in Michigan in recent years that a woman had a baby from an affair she had (baby belonged to the other man) but she and her husband reconciled and the husband with these laws is the legal father of the baby, the biological father has been seeking paterental rights and visitation for several years and has been denied up to the Michigan supreme court. Her husband is and always has been the legal father of the child and he has the parental rights, the biological father has no rights.

    Many states also won't allow a divorce until after the baby is born.

  • 4 years ago

    I agree with other people on here that say that birth control shots are not 100% effective my girlfriend was on the shot for almost three years and ened up getting pregnant with what supposed to be our first child unfourtantly her mom and now step both knew it and after telling them they had her go and get another shot anyways and in the prosses it killed our child that was the last time she ever used birth control after that it her took her almost five years to get her period back on track again so in all no birth control shots are not 100% and acedents can sometimes happen but in this case i would serously look at the fact that she may have stoped taking the shot for a reason and got pregnant but wanted to have a kid with her husband and instead messed up and pregnant by her lover instead

  • 4 years ago

    No method of birth control is 100%

    The birth control shot is a very effective method of birth control. Over the course of 1 year, fewer than 3 out of 100 typical couples who use the birth control shot every 3 months will have an accidental pregnancy.

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  • Moya
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    Birth control can fail

  • ?
    Lv 6
    4 years ago

    No birth control is 100% effective. Read the literature that comes with it. It tells you this.

  • Stella
    Lv 5
    4 years ago

    This woman took a chance on contracting a std also.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    What moral values one doesn't have that is for sure..........as always guess who gets hurt the most.......CHILDREN.

    If you suspect.......have test to see if she has been unfaithful all along.......but if close to your children still show them love seems at least one has to.........what webs one weaves.........sick

  • ?
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    Six years worth of the same answers isn't enough for you?

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  • 4 years ago

    yes

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