the birds and the bees, circa 2007 May 31, 2007
This morning, I was driving E. to his Aunt Betsy’s to meet up with the cousins to go swimming. While in the car, we heard a radio news story about a divorcing couple battling for custody of frozen embryos.
E. listened, and after the story was over he matter-of-factly announced, “Child X from my school was a frozen embryo. He was gonna be a quadruplet with his brothers and sister, but his mom and dad decided to have him implanted separately, so they were triplets and he was born later. That’s why they’re in my class and Child X is in first grade.”
That is positively bizarre, and not a little disturbing.