"Fertility Stewardship"

[Mommy22alyns]

Boy, that is some really shitty acting.

[thoughtful]

"Fertility Stewardship" makes fertility sound like something you have to maintain, like a lawn.

Is a fertility steward anything like a wine steward? And, if so, what's his version of letting you smell the cork and take a sip before accepting what you are offered?

:lol:

[thoughtful]

You beat me to it. A girl can be fertile at 11. If she gets married at 20 that's at least 10 blessings that will never be.

Won't SOMEONE think of the holocaust of middle school fetuses? :cry:

Time for Ray Comfort's next video --

181, the sequel to 180.

"I'm Ray Comfort -- I'm Jewish, and I'm a teenage girl. You just have to believe me on both of those.

If you haven't had at least one baby by the time you are 181 months old, you might as well be driving the bulldozer over concentration camp prisoners.

Because I say so, sinners."

[vicka]

if they want people to make more babies might i suggest a good porn film might be more productive? plus the acting would be better.

sheesh.

I do agree with one thing. the later people put off having children the higher the fertility issues. this is a statistical fact. perhaps the right thing to do in order to encourage people giving birth early is to set up a better system to help take care of the children! a generous maternity leave... good, state sponsored daycare... a system of nursery schools that is free and accessible to everybody... some relief help for families with young babies.

omg... am totally being a communist now ;)

ps. am a democratic jew liberal living in nyc. married at 23, first kid at 26, second two weeks after turning 30. bite me fundamentalist christians. ;)

[Milly-Molly-Mandy]

While i think its bullshit a part of me wishes my 36 year old boyfriend felt a little bit more pressure to start a family instead of concentrating on his (very high profile) career.

I'm 28 and want babies soon. He acts like he is still 25 and has years ahead of him. Well he might, but I don't.

Yup feeling really sad today.

[BexRani]

The trailer was odd. My husband and I want to wait a little while before trying to have children. No more then two years. My mom is slightly disappointed though- she wants grand kids! Lol

[bea]

WHY is the only kind of acceptable "stewardship" of fertility is to pop out as many kids as possible? "Stewardship" implies responsibility. The DEFINITION of "stewardship," according to Merriam-Webster, is as follows:

"the conducting, supervising, or managing of something; especially : the careful and responsible management of something entrusted to one's care"

"Stewardship" does not actually mean "ignoring everything except what our weirdo fringe Christian religion tells us to do, which is pop out babies regardless of the dangers to health or ability to provide for said children."

I started dating my husband at 18. Married at 23. Got intentionally pregnant at 32, only to discover that the fetus had a fatal chromosomal defect. Had an abortion. Got intentionally pregnant at 33, had a baby girl. Got pregnant intentionally at 35, had another baby girl. Happy with two kids, as I struggled with hyperemesis through both pregnancies and had surgical deliveries due to pre-existing orthopedic complications. I had to go off medications for depression and anxiety when I was pregnant and nursing and believe me, that was HARD.

Now I have a 2 year old and a 4 year old, my mental state is stable due to medications (God bless you, Wellbutrin and Klonopin), and my body has physically recovered from both pregnancies. I've had $3,000 worth of dental work done to repair the damage from the hyperemesis. My husband has yet to make the appointment for the big snip, but it's coming soon.

We waited to have kids because we wanted to be able to support them - own a house, be able to send them to decent schools, etc. We limited the number of kids we had for the same reasons, in addition to wanting to keep me in decent physical and mental shape and not exhausted and batshit crazy from constant pregnancies.

THAT is fucking stewardship of fertility. Also, that trailer is awful, from every standpoint - technical, writing, etc.