Dr. Lisa Belisle

Part of the Plan

By Lisa M. Belisle, MD, MPH
Originally published August 9, 2005, The Notes

The Belisle bunch grew up in Yarmouth at a time when big families were a rarity. There simply weren’t that many people patient (or crazy) enough to parent ten children in the 1970s. This caused unsolicited notoriety. It also led to many questions. These included: what is it like to live with all of those people? Do you have a big house? My personal favorite (frequently asked when I was a mortified junior high student) was: have your parents heard of birth control? I could answer the former questions, but felt somewhat sheepish about tackling the latter. All these many years later, I will now set the record straight. My father is a doctor and my mother is science teacher. They knew about birth control. What they did with the information was another matter.

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