But IIRC there are some religious conservatives who tell women stuff like this because they think women should be at home raising babies in their 20s instead of out in the workplace worrying about advancing their careers - because if they get too involved in the career track they may not get to have babies later.

Are they those Muffin women?

Not to mention if they can't afford 'em.

OK, I think I was wrong - at least about the organization that put up the ad

Protect Your Fertility website, which is produced by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.

But a kid's popularity or lack thereof does correlate with the other kids' desire to hit him/her in the head with the ball.

That's why they call it "dodge" ball. To my way of thinking, there are plenty of ways to make unpopular kids miserable. Dodge ball, at least, has the virtue of letting the unpopular kids throw back. I admit I am biased, because dodge ball was probably my favorite game in grammar school (we even played it at recess), even though I was one of the unpopular kids. The reason I brought up kickball is that throwing the balls to get people out is pretty much the same thing action as dodge ball, except the runner is less likely to see the ball coming.

I have a couple of really burning questions.

1) If a 13 year old is too young and immature enough to decide if she wants to abort the pregnancy, does this mean she's mature enough to raise the child?

2) What if she changes her mind at 8 months and decides she's going to raise the baby? Does she get to get up for the 4 a.m. feeding and then go off to the 8th grade????

3) If not, that means she has to give birth and then someone's going to take her baby away, right? Isn't that essentially turning her into a human incubator?

Hmm, there seems to be some sort of protest outside of the administration building -- lots of "no justice, no peace" Anyone know what the SEIU is?

eta: hmm, it seems to be the Service Employees union. There are drums and chanting.

Anyone know what the SEIU is?

Service employees union.

What's jailball?

Jailball was a bit like capture the flag. Two teams play on like a soccer field. 7-10 soccer or rubber balls or whatever are stashed in each goal area and the goal is to get all the balls-- you were home free if you could get a ball from the goal area and cross the middle of the field with it. Usually we played it with flags so that someone trying to spirit away a ball would have to give it up if the flag was pulled. I don't remember whether or not we jailed people whose flag was pulled.

Shouldn't you be a criminal prosecuter, then?

I guess I'm just as likely to be the guy trying to get people out of jail.

I loved running around and tackling people as a kid. I think I was just not strategic enough for football.

On the older mothers tip, it is a little odd to be running an education campaign for women who would hold off on having kids until their thirties. Those women are pretty educated.

[link] Service Employees International Union

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Jesse beat me.