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“Where do babies come from?”

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Youknowwhatright · 07/09/2025 20:20

Not women’s bodies, apparently. “Adults”. Really?! This is in a children’s Q and A type book I was reading to my 7 year old tonight.

“Where do babies come from?”
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DavidBattenburgh · 07/09/2025 22:27

Where’s the bit about when two humans love each other very much or just fancy a shag and get caught out.

Arran2024 · 07/09/2025 21:59

My daughter has a learning disability. It used to be that there was a campaign to make ingo as clear as possible so everyone could access it. Now they publish stuff like this - they are including trans people but excluding those with learning disabilities, poor literacy skills etc.

SpongeKnobNoPants · 07/09/2025 21:44

Stick that book in the bin

ArabellaSaurus · 07/09/2025 21:33

Well, there are books out there for children pushing Creationism. This is just another type of confusing, ideologically addled propaganda.

We can expect rising teen pregnancies among those who were not been taught the basics of reproduction.

AnSolas · 07/09/2025 21:32

And nice with faces sperm and flowers.

How sweet and stupid a way to pretend that sexual reproduction has no need for the two sex.

And adult is wrong going through puberty is not being an "adult" in western society

SinnerBoy · 07/09/2025 21:30

Orangemintcream · 07/09/2025 21:23

Hmm I wonder which adults produce the sperm and which the egg ?

Surely there must be a way to tell them apart ….

When mummy's sperm meets daddy's egg...

TempestTost · 07/09/2025 21:29

Sounds very "Left Hand of Darkness."

Orangemintcream · 07/09/2025 21:23

Hmm I wonder which adults produce the sperm and which the egg ?

Surely there must be a way to tell them apart ….

viques · 07/09/2025 21:19

Uterus, sperm, womb, embryo, umbilical cord, very good, proper names for body parts.

Then “tummy button”.

So apart from the ambiguous gender redacted adults this fails on inconsistency of language .

Try harder Marina.

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Youknowwhatright · 07/09/2025 20:25

Thatcannotberight · 07/09/2025 20:24

Marina Fogle? As in Ben Fogles' wife? That's nonsensical.

Had no idea this is who she was but I guess so, yes?

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NecessaryScene · 07/09/2025 20:25

I remember being confused by a previous form of sex obfuscation when I was very small.

The book was very clear that the man and woman in question had to be married.

I was rather baffled for a while, having thought that marriage was just an official ceremony, and started wondering if it involved some sort of physical procedure.

As an adult, always amusing seeing people try to explain stuff their religions don't approve of.

But it's not that funny as a child.

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Youknowwhatright · 07/09/2025 20:24

May as well just call women “uterus havers” and “womb havers”..

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Thatcannotberight · 07/09/2025 20:24

Marina Fogle? As in Ben Fogles' wife? That's nonsensical.

sesquipedalian · 07/09/2025 20:23

So your poor child (and any other reading this book) is under the delusion that two random adults doing who knows what might or might not end up with a baby….

deadpan · 07/09/2025 20:23

You'd think, with all the detail they're trying to include, that they'd detail the most obvious part of all.

spannasaurus · 07/09/2025 20:22

That's ridiculous