she was told by Vivian that her child died during childbirth. Vivian actually raised him until he was like 10 when he finally learned who his parents were. Carly had him when she was only a teenager. I’m not really sure what happened with Lawrence (as in the circumstances around her pregnancy) as later she wanted nothing to do with Lawrence and changed her name etc. to hide from him and the arranged marriage that her father and his father arranged.