In Missouri, can a couple get divorced before a baby is born?, and if so, how and when is the visitation decided?

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• You never met my father then....
  Without knowing the circumstances, I have to give benefit of a doubt here.
  I've seen too many abusive relationships to make such a blanket statement.

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  by 8 Jan 2004-10 Dec 2009 on November 20th, 2009

• There's no reason not to let a child be born legitimately to married parents. The mother need not stay with the father if he is abusive and can divorce after the child is born. To just want to get the divorce while pregnant is selfish. There is the possibility that the husband is not the biological father of the child and wants to divorce before the child is born -- that wasn't stated in the question.

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  by Thriftymaid on November 20th, 2009

• I was born legitimately to married parents and my mother has the scars to prove it. I fail to see how it's selfish to want to leave such a relationship and not expose the as-yet-unborn child to such a thing for even an instant.
  However, I *do* think it's selfish to impose your own morality over the welfare of the child just because you hold marriage vows in higher esteem than human life.
   
  That said, we probably are not going to see eye to eye on this one so I would rather not start a fight, especially not since there are SO many unknowns about this particular case.

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  by 8 Jan 2004-10 Dec 2009 on November 20th, 2009

• I'd never fight with you, jerv. :) Only discuss.

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  by Thriftymaid on November 20th, 2009