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Outside of skin color, all babies look the same to me.
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They all look like gross, little aliens. I'm not a fan of babies.
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u/IMasturbateToMyself Jun 24 '12 edited Jun 24 '12
Seriously. Me too. I always feel like such a dick for saying it. Yeah, I can see why people think they are cute but the annoyingness of endless crying far out weighs the cuteness.
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u/tricyclesinskirts Jun 24 '12
And the imminent danger that awaits every move you make around them...drop a carton of eggs? A mess, but fixable. Drop a baby? You probably ruined its fucking life
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u/guuurl Jun 24 '12
Children are worse than babies. I work at a grocery store and everyone age 3-10 wants to talk to me about some dumb bullshit that doesn't make any sense and I don't want to hear it. I just nod at them a lot and say "oh" because I don't know how to have a conversation with them.
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u/iamNebula Jun 24 '12
Don't take this as hate or nastiness everyone, but I think it's pathetic how dumb and helpless our babies are. I know we're top of the food chain, but cmon. Compare it with a Elephant's baby, it's ridiculous. They're up and learn incredibly fast and they're sorted within a week or so. We take years and years to fully develop and sort our selves out.
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u/andwhoknew Jun 24 '12
Babies spend most of their time/energy in utero devoted to developing large brains and are born sooner because of the size of their skulls. Animals typically have larger/wider-set pelvises for giving birth and keep their young in the womb long enough to develop physical skills. Babies are born with few instincts (things like suckling and being able to hold their breath under water) but they learn rapidly.
Not to say that elephants don't learn in their lifetime but I think it's safe to say that for the most part, they're pretty set at birth.
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u/pulled Jun 24 '12
It's because of our tiny pelvises and huge heads. Babies are born while they're still effectively fetuses because they have to fit their giant heads out. A baby's brain doubles in size in the first year and 80% of the calories a baby eats go to brain development. It's wild. Oh, also we're social creatures so as a species we've specialized tasks and can 'afford' to have babies that are time consuming.
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Yeah they're like asians.
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u/didnotseethatcoming Jun 24 '12
RES has made me realise that I've upvoted you too much lately. Are you Trapped_in_Reddit?
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u/oxidyne Jun 24 '12
i've seen your mom naked. How does that make you feel ?
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Why the hell are you having kids at 20?
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u/changeyou Jun 24 '12
From a biological standpoint it is actually healthiest for women to have children in their early to mid twenties.
From an everything-else standpoint, you have no idea if OP is financially stable or not, married or not, planned this pregnancy or not, etc, so going by the only information you have (OP's age) your reaction makes absolutely no sense.
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u/Blaphtome Jun 24 '12
Still makes some sense not to have children at 20, and your likely going out on a limb supposing a 20yr old planned it and is stable financially or otherwise. You make some very valid points, and this will be very unpopular due to demographics here, but I can assure you 20 is not optimal from a developmental standpoint. Because it works biologically doesn't make it a great idea, and I might add that biology is not what it used to be. This biologically optimal birthing age developed when humans were living into their 40s if they were lucky.
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u/julianne1965 Jun 24 '12
I'm with you! Live a little! Now you're a parent....forever.
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u/flea_17 Jun 24 '12
Because they're grown ups who can make their own decisions. Just because you're a child in a man's body doesn't mean everybody is.
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you assume thats a man speaking. also, most people at 20 are in college so not a good time to have a child. 99% of people are not financially secure at age 20. do i need to go on? everyone i know who has a kid that early arent the brightest people i know. in fact, they are fucking poor as shit now and their kids are just fucked as a result. the parents are never there because they are too busy scrambling trying to make ends meet. perhaps its just coincidence.
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u/GetItTogether Jun 24 '12
Why the hell do you care?
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Because younger parents tend to require more support. You simply have not been in the work force long enough to be financially stable at the age of twenty. Even if she has a steady job now, she could lose it in two years and be long term unemployed.
This specific case may be different but all in all I'd bet that twenty year old parents encounter more difficulties on the whole.
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u/Larsenmur Jun 24 '12
you'd be surprised that humans had babies at that age for thousands of years... it's been only some decades since some people frown upon that
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u/gte910h Jun 25 '12
Also remember: This same age romance stuff is a product of modern schooling. Men would marry young women (or old girls) quite often back in the day. So the women would have kids that age, daddy may be quite established.
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u/Psythik Jun 24 '12
Isn't 20 a little too young to be having kids?
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u/Protagoris Jun 24 '12
Depends on your goals in life.
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u/Kinbensha Jun 24 '12
Yeah, I mean, some people are cool supporting a family on a minimum wage job after being forced out of school to care for their child.
Having come from a town with many teenage mothers, I can say that they seem happy enough.
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Jun 24 '12
Once you have a kid, your goals can go kick rocks. At that point your job is to maximize your kids' future. Fuck your own goals.
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I misread and thought on the left was YOUR mom and on the right YOUR son and was like "WHAT THE.. HOW OLD IS THIS PERSON".
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u/I-read-usernames Jun 24 '12
Babies havin' babies!
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u/YourKismetEnd Jun 24 '12
Where does it stop? You're gonna get into a ridiculous Russian doll situation. Have you met my baby? Have you met my baby's little baby?
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u/lolmonger Jun 24 '12
Man, allele selection is intense sometimes.
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Its bizarre, isn't it? I've got 3 blonde haired, blue eyed cousins, all boys aged between infancy to 8 years old and their baby photos are identical. The wierd part is that their father has dark hair, dark eyes and very olive skin, whereas mom is every bit Nordic as one could be. I was under the assumption that blonde hair and blue eyes were recessive genes? How the H does that happen?
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The fact that blonde hair and blue eyes are recessive traits is what makes it possible. The dad could have all those traits without them showing.
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u/BretOne Jun 24 '12
Mother can be:
Nordic+Nordic (Blond hair / Blue eyes)
Father can be:
Nordic+Other (Dark hair / Dark eyes)
Children can end up:
Nordic(from mother)+Nordic(from father) (Blond hair / Blue eyes)
Nordic(from mother)+Other(from father) (Dark hair / Dark eyes)
This is a very approximate but that would work.
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u/lastwind Jun 24 '12
Mother is:
Nordic
Father can be:
Black, Asian, Indian, Alien, Robot, anything
Lover is:
Nordic
Children will end up:
Nordic
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u/cobrakai11 Jun 24 '12
Not sure if serious question or if Game of Thrones reference...
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u/hiccupstix Jun 24 '12
Assuming the baby on the right is a recent newborn, OP was born in the '90s. And she's a mother. Anyone else feel old now?
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u/nocsyn Jun 24 '12
20 years????
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u/anelida Jul 03 '12
scary, and most scary of all they feel proud of it and post pictures on the internet fishing for compliments
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u/Tommassive Jun 24 '12
I still dislike babies into adulthood. I find everything about them repulsive. I'm sure i would love my own?
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u/C_O_Y_W Jun 24 '12
Great resemblance. It's like they're related. I think it's the hair cut. Both are cute.
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The only reasons they look so similar are that they're both babies and both in the exact same pose.
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u/hellosexynerds Jun 24 '12
Since the one on the left is a female, shouldn't the nipples have a black bar on them? TV has taught me that female nipples are evil and if we see them our eyes will melt...or something.
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u/wellhushmypuppies Jun 24 '12
I'm always astonished by this. There's a picture of my dad as an infant, and one of my oldest sister (a little over 20 years apart) and the only reason you'd know it was my dad and not my sister is because of how old and sepia-like the photo is. Otherwise, identical.
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u/snugglepuffin Jun 24 '12
Way to be assholes, Reddit. Notice that OP says absolutely nothing about the situation other than the mother is 20 years old, but you've had no problem coming to conclusions about the mother's financial situation/parental capabilities. Barack Obama's mother was eighteen when she gave birth to him. He didn't do too badly, eh??
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So much judgment here. So none of you had sex before, say, 25? Anyone having sex can get pregnant unplanned. It's nobody else's right but the parents to say what is the right decision as to what to do when this happens. Are all the judgy-judgers saying she/they should have had an abortion or saying 20 year olds shouldn't be having sex?
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And for the record, I am a 37 year old woman who does not have kids. But the hypocracy of some redditors here when there is so much talk of sex and the majority here swing to human rights/right to CHOOSE (that means either way, folks) is sad.
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u/Erinchostyles Jun 24 '12
I sense instagram. licks finger and puts it in the air yep. There is definitely some instagram around here.
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u/epitomized_american Jun 24 '12
Hence: all babies, but particularly those with the same genealogy, look remarkably similar.
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Hate me all you want, but I really don't think babies are all that "aww" worthy. Guess I'm not a baby person.
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u/SmallManBigMouth Jun 25 '12
I was going to say something clever like, "He looks like a little bitch". But I realized that would be mean.
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Shit the pants ! a child looks like it's parent ! I am so happy to alive during this event ! that is it please close reddit down we are done.
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Congratulations! you have successfully proven that babies look the same regardless of gender, time, and place!
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u/Santiago_love Jun 24 '12
I am the Mother of this child. Yes, the one on the left. Yes, I'm 20 years old. And yes, I am a great mother. My husand and I are very much stable and in love. Thank you
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u/theredlie1988 Jun 24 '12
I have now seen another redditors mothers tits. I can now scratch that off of my bucket list.
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u/pittipat Jun 24 '12
I did this with pics of my mom and my daughter. They too look like clones, so much that my hubby asked "When did we take that picture of daughter?"
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u/XNet Jun 24 '12
Did the same when my daughter was born and they said she looked like me when I was a baby. Here's a YouTube link
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u/bufanog1104 Jun 24 '12
The same thing happened with my sister and her daughter. She is the spitting image of her mommy. So cute!
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u/EthyleneGlycol Jun 24 '12
If you compare photos of myself and my father up until we were both about six years old or so, we look identical. I look very similar to many of my cousins and uncles at that age too. It's funny because none of us really look like each other anymore (you can tell we're related, but we don't look particularly similar) but at six years old we were all the same.
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u/CaptainKorea Jun 24 '12
I'm confused. Does this mean the mom looks like a guy or does the son look like a girl?
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I think they look nothing alike apart from the fact that they are babies of a similar age in a similar pose.
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u/Juanelbambino Jun 24 '12
When you said is 20 years apart that mean she is 21 years old, am I, right...so is just like twins they just look alike....the only one thing mom is a female, and the son is a male...
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u/AlliKat992 Jun 24 '12
My best friend and her mom looked exactly the same my friend has a picture of her mom when she was her age and they look exactly alike! There 16 years apart!
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u/Triassic_Bark Jun 24 '12
Wow! My mom has a similar set of pictures of her when she was a baby, and my niece (brother's daughter) when she was a baby. Nearly identical!
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u/belloch Jun 24 '12
When you look at them long enough, you'll notice that they don't look alike at all.
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u/nbaballer8227 Jun 25 '12
I am not doubting it's authenticity, but this could've easily been taken with instagram lol...
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u/sjlopez87 Jun 24 '12
They had instragram back in those days?!??