Oh, we cannot help but love this all…just a tiny bit.
Awesome song: Pregnant Women are Smug.
It’s by Garfunkle and Oats, from LA. Check out their website, which has a bunch more songs.
I have so many pregnant friends who could be offended by this. But don’t be…BECAUSE IT’S SO FUNNY.
Look, we aren’t against fertility drugs here at BBOA. It is a personal choice and everyone makes their own decisions. We just feel compelled to point out that this woman is 4-fucking-9 years old and just had a baby. This is somehting most of us could not afford to do. They make it seem so easy.
You know what we support? Not having a kid that you will eventually make fat and no one will ask her to the prom and she will blame you and you will be paying for therapy her whole life. A condom could prevent all this.
I GET THE GENERAL IDEA THAT HAVING KIDS IS BASICALLY LONG BOUTS OF TEDIOUSNESS INTERRUPTED OCCASIONALLY BY MOMENTS OF FRANTIC TORTURE
Over the past few decades, social scientists like me have found consistent evidence that there is an almost zero association between having children and happiness. My analysis in the Journal of Socio-economics (Powdthavee, 2008) is a recent British example of parents and non-parents reporting the same levels of life satisfaction, on average.
But the warnings for prospective parents are even more stark than ‘it’s not going to make you happier’. Using data sets from Europe and America, numerous scholars have found some evidence that, on aggregate, parents often report statistically significantly lower levels of happiness (Alesina et al., 2004), life satisfaction (Di Tella et al., 2003), marital satisfaction (Twenge et al., 2003), and mental well-being (Clark & Oswald, 2002) compared with non-parents.
There is also evidence that the strains associated with parenthood are not only limited to the period during which children are physically and economically dependent. For example, Glenn and McLanahan (1981) found those older parents whose children have left home report the same or slightly less happiness than non-parents of similar age and status. Thus, what these results are suggesting is something very controversial – that having children does not bring joy to our lives…
HO HO! SCIENCE AGREES.
(thanks to G for the link!!)
That 13 year old boy in the UK isn’t the baby daddy. Wait, the mom is still a kid. Crap. Let’s call the whole thing off!
