If there's a baby boom in nine months...

[ehrnst]

[marble falls]

1. Raise 'em Democrats.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. 5th time I've seen this today

And I keep laughing. We don't have kids (47 and 51) so that train has left the station but . . .

Not everyone gets it!

[jimfields33]

3. I don't get it at all

Can you help?

[ok_cpu]

5. I think because those with kids underfoot

ain't making any new babies.

[jimfields33]

9. Got it! Thank you

I think you need kids to get it. I totally understand now.

[customerserviceguy]

12. I picked up on that

but I do genealogy, and the French-Canadian farmers that I'm descended from had maybe twenty kids in a one or two room farmhouse...

[ok_cpu]

14. "Mother and I are taking a walk

you kids stay inside and read."

[customerserviceguy]

15. Well taken

but the births in September belie that. We're talking Quebec in the mid-winter here!

[ok_cpu]

16. I got nothing

That's actually pretty interesting. Amazing to be able to raise a family that large in some possibly harsh conditions.

[customerserviceguy]

17. Many years ago

if a couple had a 20th child, the government would pay for schooling for that child. That child would grow up to have a profession, and that would be helpful to the parents when they hit old age.

I've learned a lot through genealogy!

[HarlanPepper]

6. My take on it

Because people who already have kids won’t have time or the will to make another because they’re already losing their minds from being stuck inside the house with the ones they have.

[ehrnst]

7. Anyone harboring 24/7 at home with kids right now...

is likely not thinking about having more.

[JustAnotherGen]

11. People who have kids already

Will be extra careful - a lot of them are in hell with cooped up children.

People who don't have that birth control reminder? Oh yeah - lots of babies in early next year!

[brush]

4. Seems risky to chance hospitals now. I wouldn't.

[jimfields33]

8. My niece is due in may

Great timing. Yieks.

[Newest Reality]

10. Word should get out...

I was reading an article that indicates that pregnant women are more susceptible to complications and a higher mortality rate from contracting the virus.

They don't know specifically why yet, but it is statistically evident and can be looked up for those who are concerned about getting pregnant right now.

It might be best to put that off for several reasons, methinks. This kind of crisis indicates more caution.

[Hortensis]

13. Lol, my husband got it immediately, and it's been over

35 years since ours were underfoot. Those poor things are in for it now, and also our poor grandchildren.

I regret many costs to them, this is only the beginning of those, but not that it will create a very different outlook from before.

Too many people are far, far too complacently stupid and need to find out for themselves what happens when they fecklessly kick over their own bucket and no one comes to make it all well for them. Only some will take the right lessons, of course, but it's always been that way.