“Where do babies come from?”

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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.

That's ridiculous

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

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….

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Sounds very "Left Hand of Darkness."

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

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

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.

Stick that book in the bin

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.

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

That is dreadful. Duff info from start to finish.

God, what an embarrassment.

Ouch that's horrible. And unhelpful too. I thought the point of this kind of book was to help children understand the world around them, the world of which they and rheir bodies are part. This just obfuscates.

Nonsense book. Burn it.

Never forget, a baby grows inside an adult's body

Indoctrination, straight into the bin

ETA: Today, my DD pointed out a shop display made from a stack of books with holes drilled through them held together with a metal pole.

She noted that the books were destroyed and asked which book I would add to the pile.

Both of us had a good think but could not come up with one at the time

Now I have a strong candidate

You were right about marriage requiring a physical aspect @NecessaryScene. The physical bit is consummation. Without it the marriage is not valid - not even if the wife is pregnant at the wedding - and can be annulled. Annulment is why Henry VIII only had four wives: his marriages to Catherine of Aragon and Anne of Cleves were annulled and therefore never existed - which made the succession of Mary I a bit problematic.
As to the book and 'adults' making a baby, it's outrageous and such misinformation can have bad repercussions down the line, especially when later contradicted. Bloody stupid.

Yuck! I went to a talk recently where one of the women repeated a phrase she'd heard.
"Women are people that people come out of"
This book is on a par with that.

For clarity, she was repeating the phrase in disgust at how awful it was. Not agreeing with it.

Marriage might require consummation, but procreation doesn't require marriage.

So sperms and eggs come from any bodies?
Was this written by a 6 year old boy?