There's no mention of a husband of the mother, or father of the child in the story. Eugenic bastard control effort currently in effect. The thing I find most unsettling about this story isn't that the school medical staff implanted this into the woman's daughter without telling the mother, but that the daughter didn't tell the mother that she had received an implanted contraceptive. The only way the mother came to know about this was due to the daughter experiencing complications resulting from the implant she didn't want her mother to know about. If that's what happened it maybe time for the mother to work on her relationship with her daughter.