Its So Easy When You're Evil

Meet Saddam Hussein. If you are unfamiliar with this individual, he was a writer, military man, president and abortion candidate. And I'm not just saying that because he was a ruthless son of a bitch, either. He was a difficult pregnancy for his mother, and her doctors advised her to end it.

We all know that Hussein killed hundreds of thousands of his own people in the decades he was dictator of Iraq and fought two aggressive wars with his neighbors. I've always wondered what kind of mentality a person like Hussein has. What the hell is going through their heads? This research doesnt prove anything but it makes some interesting suggestions.

A study of children that were unwanted pregnancies in Czechoslovakia in the late 1970's made some observations about the lives of those children. One hundred and ten "unwanted" children were compared with one hundred children whose mothers did not request an abortion. (The mothers of the unwanted children had sought and been denied abortions twice by the Communist state for the same pregnancy.) These kids were tracked over the course of their lives.

The unwanted children had worse grades, behavioral problems requiring therapy and worse relationships with other children. They did, however, have more cases of illness. The hypothesis was that the parents subtly or not so subtly let it be known that the children were unwanted and were treated worse than the children who were wanted. This was especially true of males and only children.

Thirty five years later, in 2002, the Prague Psychiatric Center in the Czech Republic followed up on those now adult unwanted children. Self reports and objective reports of their lives and emotional states were compared to identical reports from wanted siblings or wanted children from other families. The unwanted adults had a higher rate of becoming psychiatric patients (especially psychiatric inpatients)than thier wanted siblings or people from other families.


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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6989474
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12409858
Mahoney, E.R. Human Sexuality. New York: Western Washington University, 1983.

I Do Not Like Green Eggs

Monica Bellucci is a very lucky woman. Ok, her husband is luckier, but that's beside the point. Not only is she a stunningly beautiful woman, she managed to get pregnant while pushing the age of 40. New research shows just how...well, stacked the deck was against her.

Even ten years prior, getting pregnant might have been harder for her than for a 19 year old. By the time a woman is age 30, 90% of her eggs are gone and whats left over isn't as high quality as the one's that are gone. By the time they are 40, only 3% of their eggs are still there. The research was done on 325 women of different ages from Britain, Europe and America. The advice from "Good Morning America"'s Dr. Marie Savard to women who want babies: "the sooner, the better."


Blogger's Idle Thoughts:
Not good news for the career oriented women of my generation. As stated before (August 13, 2010), people's brains are not fully developed until age 25. Until then, young people tend to still have risky behavior and are in fact extra stimulated by it. There might be a reason for that. Women start ovulating around age 13 and by age 30, they are nearly done. So for 12 years, young women are both less risk wary and most fertile. From age 13 to 25, they will ovulate about 144 eggs. From age 25 to 30, they will ovulate about 60 eggs. Nature wants them to get pregnant in those 12 years but to be more careful about the men they pick as they get older, because they will have fewer chances to have children.


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