Originally Posted by SteveZ

I beg to differ. If that were true, the teen birth rate would not be stratospheric, runaways would be down, suicides and other such stuff would not be on the rise, and all sorts of other distress situations would go away. While one may be more observant to warning signs (if one wants to, and that is not gender-unique) being a mother (or father) does not make one a mind reader.
I'm sorry, but that's somewhat sexist and chauvinistic.