everyone else in the world (other than me) is pregnant. yes, you heard me. everyone. even men.
the teenage (girls 15-19 -- yes, GIRLS) birthrate in the U.S. has risen for the first time since 1991. [see NYT article here. love the way it says this is fueling "the debate about whether the Bush administration’s abstinence-only sexual education efforts are working," LOL.]
yet another good friend of mine (whom i won't name here) is pregnant. this is in addition to my cousin alison (#1 in may), my friend jennifer (#3 in feb), my friend suzy (#2 in july, exactly one year since her #1 was born), and then all the rest of the teenage girls in the U.S., (and not counting all my other friends/relatives who have already been pregnant and given birth and now have children). christina aguilera is pregnant. nicole ritchie is pregnant. j. lo was denying it, but she's also pregnant. jessica alba is pregnant. and now britney "trainwreck-beyond-all-
comprehension-worse-than-a-trainwreck-actually" spears' sister, jamie lynn spears is pregnant.
she's 16. no doubt she'll be part of the 2008 report that teenage pregnancies are STILL UP for a second year in a row. [well, what can you expect from someone named "jamie lynn" from louisiana? that she would get a PhD in astrophysics (or even finish an associates degree at the local vo-tech)? it's come to this: if you want your daughter to be pregnant before she finishes high school, first: be from the deep south, and second: give her two names, one of which is "jamie." nevermind that you live in L.A. now and she's a character on a nickelodeon TV show.]
sigh. SIGH.
[how many of these young women have wanted to have a baby and a family since they were 20?? do they LOVE pregnancy and babies the way i always have? and what single (handsome, successful, not crazy-religious) 30-something man wants to get involved with a woman like me, who is clearly driven crazy by hormones and aspires to be a full-time mom?]
yep. i thought so.
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