article_snippet.sent: only did it because A mother-of-two who was abused by her own father throughout her childhood loved me.
article_snippet.sent: I wanted a baby because I needed my own family. '
article_snippet.sent: When a daughter was born, I felt a surge of love and happiness that I had never experienced before.
article_snippet.sent: and I was determined to be a good mum.
article_snippet.sent: It was my focus in life.'
article_snippet.sent: Once, I plucked up courage to ask a son why a son did it, and a son replied: "I only did it because I loved you."
article_snippet.sent: I tried to bury it all, and concentrate on my children.
article_snippet.sent: my children brought me so much happiness.
article_snippet.sent: It was there, at the front of my mind, each day.