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    Talking Cougar Insemination Without Feeling Cheap

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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    03/16/09

    In reply to Talking Cougar Insemination Without Feeling Cheap
    All kids are smart, some are just lucky. Economically independent women can provide that luck. End of story.
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    03/16/09

    @BookishLookish:


    What are you saying here? It sounds like you're saying that economically independant women make the best parents or something. I don't really understand the point you're trying to make with this comment.

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    03/16/09

    @BookishLookish: Or, you could also say that an independent woman with a good career is probably smart, so she is likely to have smart kids.


    I think all kids are born with potential to do good and even great things, but I also think that genetics play a role.

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    03/16/09

    @Werrick: If a child needs advocacy (cognitive therapy/occupational therapy/ what have you) in order to live up to its full potential, he or she is more likely to get it if his mother makes her own money/does not have to wait around for an absent father to provide it and/or the state to help her. Is that clearer?
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    03/16/09

    @VoxPopuli: I have seen it work both ways. But I think a lot of children just need the extra attention and perhaps some help in order to shine. If a mother has the economic means, she will stop at nothing to do make this happen. If she doesn't, she will do her best, but that is usually not enough.
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    03/16/09

    In reply to Talking Cougar Insemination Without Feeling Cheap
    Isn't there an increased risk of Down's syndrome when a woman has a child later in life? (I guess the risk is still small?)
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    03/16/09

    @Meeg: Yes. They typically recommend at least some extra testing for mothers over 35 years.
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    03/16/09

    @Meeg: When you have a child in your forties your pregnancy is usually so medicalized that testing for Downs goes without saying. The risk is not small, and it can happen at any age actually.
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    03/16/09

    In reply to Talking Cougar Insemination Without Feeling Cheap
    Uhmm.. shouldn't the title of "New York Magazine's" article be THIS OLD EGG rather than THIS OLD SPERM? I mean, given the nature of the story and all..
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    03/16/09

    In reply to Talking Cougar Insemination Without Feeling Cheap
    You know, every time I see a headline like this I end up donating money to breeding programs at the Bronx Zoo.
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    01/15/09

    In reply to A Chill Sweeps the Twitterati
    "...staring at my dead iphone, wondering why owen is so fascinated by Twitter....."
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    01/15/09

    In reply to A Chill Sweeps the Twitterati
    What happens when the water in the fish bowl freezes?
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    01/15/09

    @FracturedAcetabulum: Fishsicles.
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    01/15/09

    In reply to A Chill Sweeps the Twitterati
    It's 83 degrees right now.
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    01/15/09

    In reply to A Chill Sweeps the Twitterati
    I'd feel for that woman staring at her dead iPhone if the iPhone were a child and Twitter a Pearl S. Buck novel.
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