Most people would agree that asking someone who has just announced they're pregnant whether the baby was planned is incredibly rude. Most of us will cop to a few ill planned tussles under the sheets, but will anyone admit their pregnancy was unplanned?
Kadi, a blogger at Imperfect Parent, admits that all seven of her children
were unplanned and can't understand why more people aren't willing to
admit the same. Clearly, she needs to read Babble more often. She gives a variety of reasons for this, including...
faulty birth control, idiocy, and poor execution of the rhythm method.
It doesn't take a genius to figure out that people are not interested in admitting something that could potentially shame them or make their kid feel unwanted. But it's still interesting that so many of us (myself included) don't tell the truth about the genesis of our progeny. Maybe it falls under the "too much information" category. But I can't help but think that more honesty in this department might lend itself to better family planning.
