• wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    You don’t need sex to have a kid, actually. There’s the adoption process and IVF as well. Both would also technically be “trying for a baby”, but people usually are more specific when talking about those.

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      Which just means sex is even more besides the point of having a baby so no need to be so weird about it.

      That said It’s pretty important in sex education to acknowledge that babies can result from PIV sex.

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        That was exactly my point. It absolutely qualifies as “trying to/working on having a kid”, definitely as much or more so than tracking cycles for unprotected sex. Similar for the IVF process.

        It’s work and it’s not easy.

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          9 hours ago

          Making a kid probably takes a year (<3 months to try and conceive, 9 months for pregnancy) or so, unless you have issues with fertility. Adoption can take, like, a decade, assuming that you are considered a suitable adoptive parent in the first place. (I’m pretty sure that many places discriminate against disabled people here, and almost everywhere you have to be married.)