Monday, September 01, 2008
"No comment," I said to the reporter when he asked me about the VP candidate's daughter's bun-in-the-oven. I am not one to spread gossip about long-deceased ancestors, but I note that my maternal grandmother's grandparents had her mother exactly eight months into their marriage and my maternal grandfather's grandparents popped a baby out six months and two days after their marriage.
As my mother has stated in the past, the first baby can come at any time.
Of course my father was illegitimate (they used to call those children bastards), his parents didn't get married for a year and a half after he was hatched.
My only comment is that people and their families who push abstinence only, creationism, and a general antipathy towards science are far more likely to have unintended pregnancies than those grown up enough to talk about sex with their kids and have adult conversations that move beyond, "Don't fuck!" to more reasoned things like, "If you become sexually active, promise me you'll use birth control."
Contemplating my scandal-racked ancestors.
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As my mother has stated in the past, the first baby can come at any time.
Of course my father was illegitimate (they used to call those children bastards), his parents didn't get married for a year and a half after he was hatched.
My only comment is that people and their families who push abstinence only, creationism, and a general antipathy towards science are far more likely to have unintended pregnancies than those grown up enough to talk about sex with their kids and have adult conversations that move beyond, "Don't fuck!" to more reasoned things like, "If you become sexually active, promise me you'll use birth control."
Contemplating my scandal-racked ancestors.
