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                         Parenting in this modern age

[1] The impression I get leafing through an issue of South Florida Parenting
[2] is that we as a species simply can't survive without modern medicine,
modern education, child self-esteem therapy and family counselling. It's just
amazing that we made it for the six thousand or so years of civilization
without such services. Just to get pregnent seems to require a team of
specialized doctors to help move the sperm to the egg to ensure proper
fertilization and yet again, modern medicine comes to the rescue when when it
pops out and the head needs reshaping.

Can't have a kid with an odd Charlie Brown shaped head, now can we? Think of
the poor self-esteem the kid will suffer through as it heads its way through
our wonderfully modern education system [3] …

And it's also the poor parent that can't afford to send Tylor or Madison to a
cheerleading or computer camp for the summer. Or the ever popular Adventure
Camp where kids compete in inane competitions and every night the least
popular kid is voted out to spend the rest of the summer in time out.

[And what's with the pregnancy fetish photos?] [4] But perhaps most
disturbing were the ads for pregnancy fetish photos, where you and your mate
can pose for artistic maternity portraiture up util the time of delivery
(where the mother-to-be probably wants to pull the lower lip of her mate up
over his head for putting her through this).

“That's not pregnancy fetish photos,” said Spring [5], looking at one of the
ads.

“Okay,” I said, flipping through the magazine some more. “What about this
one?” The nude couple standing in a large body of natural water, the male,
lovingly adoring the female's swollen belly. “You can't say that that isn't a
pregnancy fetish photo?”

“Now you're just being silly,” she said.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2003/04/23/shaping.heads.jpg
[2] http://www.sfparenting.com/
[3] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2002/11/14.2-3
[4] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2003/04/23/pregnancy.fetish.jpg
[5] http://www.springdew.com/

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