Why People Keep Having Children

1. Because hormones make men and women irrational, and "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" doesn't only happen when spawning a work of poetry.

2. We think we could do a better job than our parents did and can screw up our kids less than they did.

3. Health care professionals and people with children are given a free pass to talk about bodily functions. To be so in touch with the abject feels very liberating.

4. I've never encountered better puns than those associated with pregnancy and motherhood.

5. Nursing is such a letdown.

6. Women have been keeping the worst bits about pregnancy quiet all these years, to be shared only when someone is already pregnant. Ignorance was bliss.