https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/05/us/us-birthrate-falls-covid.html


Okay, no joking now... you kids get with it!

You want to live with the knowledge that you could be adversely affecting my Social Security largesse?

To think that at the beginning of this lockdown stuff, people thought we'd be going through a baby boom by now.

But I've done my part--grandchild #2 (a girl) is due any day now!

Please be careful with my Social Insecurity check

Some people, me among them, predicted precisely this would happen. There may be a bit of a birth rebound in late 2021 or in 2022, but the overall trend is down.

It was predicted that 2020 would be the first year that the US would lose population. It will be a while before the final numbers are in, but I still think that is a definite possibility.

that many people are afraid of getting pregnant right now as we really don't know the reality of COVID and pregnancy. I'd hate to have a tiny baby right now or be pregnant.

My boyfriend's son got married a few months before my daughter did. My daughter had a miscarriage in October. I tend to believe she has chosen not to try again right now as she did have to get the vaccination for her job.

My boyfriend's son and his wife chose to not try for now. Now, considering my daughter is 35 and his wife is 33, they are in a situation where they need to have kids soon or not have any. His son and his wife decided to go ahead and get pregnant, but she is working at home, didn't get the vaccination, and is staying home. Her husband is self employed, so they are being extremely careful that she isn't exposed.

I think there is a lot of fear out there about having a baby right now and I don't blame them.

I think you are right about that. I know that pregnant moms had concerns about getting vaccinated, and I could definitely see couples delaying because of that.

I have been letting everyone down in this regard and I admit it. I am just afraid of being seduced by a narcissist female and then I get controlled and bossed around for the rest of my life like my parents did to me growing up. I'm an easy target still to get manipulated by a hottie that just wants to control me and I admit it.

No apology needed where no opportunities exist.

Ouch! You are a brutal man!

I think more pregnancies are caused by reunions than by lock-downs...of course, I was in the military...

I was just thinking this.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

I know that having a boyfriend--who goes home--is way more "fun" than a full time spouse.

A spouse on lock down sounds like a true mood kill.

Dorothy Wrote:
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> A spouse on lock down sounds like a true mood
> kill.

It can be fun. Like Adam and Eve trying to avoid the Tree of Guano in your own little suburban garden.

If my bishop finds out I lost my virginity, I’m blaming it on you.

"BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — A Malian woman has given birth to nine babies at once — after expecting seven, according to Mali’s Minister of Health and the Moroccan clinic where the nonuplets were born.

"It appeared to be the first time on record that a woman had given birth to nine surviving babies at once.

"The five girls and four boys, and their mother, “are all doing well,” Mali’s health minister said in a statement.

"The mother, 25-year-old Halima Cisse, gave birth to the babies by cesarean section on Tuesday in Morocco after being sent there for special care, Mali’s top health official announced."

https://wtop.com/africa/2021/05/a-woman-from-mali-gives-birth-to-9-babies-in-morocco/

Do you moonlight as a nurse in Morocco?

>>...given birth to nine surviving babies at once<<

I understand exactly what it means, and it's not incorrect. Nevertheless, this phrasing still makes me chuckle a little. I picture them emerging in parallel rather than serially.

If the US needs more reproduction, we'd like intelligent substantial people who contribute significantly to civilization to do it.

And yes, I am thinking of the Kardashians.

Lot's Wife Wrote:
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> And yes, I am thinking of the Kardashians.

But would EOD want to help them?

I think the kids would welcome a Lamanite into the family.

Lamanight.

although until I start texting with Kim, just saying "Lamanight" won't express the power and majesty that being a "Lamanight" conveys.

Doesn't she know you are Lame at Night?

No!

And don't go telling her!

Where do you think I learned about it?

Pish Posh!

I am going like a lamb to the slaughter, but I am calm as a summer’s morning. I have a conscience void of offense towards God and towards all men.


...and you can quote me!

?Que chingas Señior Anejo?

Damm autospell don't like español.