Fishcycles
Jul. 28th, 2009 07:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailbhe[After a complicated conversation - with diagrams - about cousins, first cousins, second cousins, first cousins once removed, marrying cousins, marriage, legal recognition of relationships, gay men adopting, how orphans are made, and so on...]
Linnea: So... a man needs a woman to make a baby, but if a woman, a girl is grown up, and she wants a baby but she doesn't want to get married, she can just have one.
Ailbhe: Sort of - she still needs a seed from a man, remember that bit?
Linnea: Oh yeah.
Ailbhe: But she can find a man willing to do that, or she can get a doctor to get a seed from a man and put it in her.
Linnea: Right. I wonder what my hair will be like when I'm grown up?
Damn, I was about to get into infertility and IVF. Oh well. Hairdye it is, then.
Linnea: So... a man needs a woman to make a baby, but if a woman, a girl is grown up, and she wants a baby but she doesn't want to get married, she can just have one.
Ailbhe: Sort of - she still needs a seed from a man, remember that bit?
Linnea: Oh yeah.
Ailbhe: But she can find a man willing to do that, or she can get a doctor to get a seed from a man and put it in her.
Linnea: Right. I wonder what my hair will be like when I'm grown up?
Damn, I was about to get into infertility and IVF. Oh well. Hairdye it is, then.