Passing your genes

[Kitsune]

Originally posted by sycamore

I just don't get some people...so desperate to have a child...so desperate to keep up with the Joneses. So desperate that they'll spend thousands of dollars to adopt a child from Eastern Europe or to essentially buy a baby on the black market.

I'm pleased that someone else understands this. A couple I know were absolutely desperate to have a child because "everyone wants to have a baby!" and "everyone else has a baby!"

What disturbed me most was to find that they always referenced the child as a "baby". Never a "person" or "child" or "son" or "daughter". Just "baby". When they actually had the thing, I've never seen such a look of confusion on a man's face when the husband had to begin caring for a little person. I think it actually hit them at that point: their lives, for at least the next 18 years, were going to be completely different. They hadn't introduced something like a pet into the family, they had brought a new human being into the world.

And, of course, now she wants many more and he isn't so sure.