The Huffington Post has a nice little poll up about green birth control.  Actually, birth control is just not all that green. As the poll points out, no one is recycling condoms (obviously – and PS don’t try), the birth control pill may release excess estrogen into the water supply, and while copper IUDs may be the eco-friendliest of all, few women use them.

I’ve thought about this before because pill packets especially the heavier plastic ones have always bugged me. They seem like they’d make the pill the least eco-friendly birth control option, but the Huffington Post piece points out …read more

I got an email today that absolutely blew my mind.
Get this: According to a recent study published in the June issue of Contraception Magazine, the “Pull Out” method of birth control rivals the use of condoms!
This was a piece published by sex researcher Rachel K. Jones, that finds  “pulling out” before ejaculation is nearly effective as condoms in preventing pregnancy – calling the method “only slightly less effective” than condoms.
Wow.
This is not a good thing.
It’s like millions of college boys are suddenly going to feel validated to not wear condoms and spread disease far and wide.
Image: Sxc.hu

Now that the shotgun has been lowered, it seems the possibility of the wedding between Bristol Palin and the father of her child, Levi Johnston, is off – at least for now. Levi, who says they broke up a week or two ago, says he’s not “mature enough” for marriage. Wow. What a shocker there.
This happened in my family when my sister was barely 19. My sister married the guy; They’re now divorced. Their youngest daughter Ashley, now 16, is hanging out with us this week for spring break and I’m getting a crash course in high-schooler-ology. Sure, teach abstinence, …read more

How did you know that you were/were not done adding to your family members? Did you have a set number to begin with? Was there some sort of strategic planning involved, or did you play it all by ear?
It seems as though the opinions on a perfect number vary greatly depending on religion, upbringing and pure personal preference. I have heard people bad mouth my husband and I for having so many kids. By the same token, I’ve been chastised for choosing to stop procreating. If we lived in China, we’d be almost quadruple our allowed number of children. It …read more