Erik Reuter wrote:
>
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 02:09:18PM -0500, Jon Gabriel wrote:
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> > From: Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > > Erik Reuter wrote:
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> > > > You know, a lesbian couple could have BOTH members impregnated by
> > > > artificial insemination. They could produce children at TWICE THE
> > > > RATE of a heterosexual couple.
>
> > > I have visions of 2 women in one household each having twins, about
> > > 2 months apart.
>
> > This is beginning to sound like a Heinlein novel.
>
> > Of course, everything will be fine until the reality sets in. Twin
> > infants (as I'm sure Julia can attest) are quite a handful. I can
> > only imagine the chaos _four_ infants could create.
>
> They lost me at the twins thing. How do they guarantee even one woman
> has twins, let alone both?
They don't. But if you had enough lesbian couples procreating very
close together like that, *eventually* you'd probably end up with such
as scenario.
And unless some of the lesbians are having twins, you're not going to
have babies at twice the rate of heterosexual couples. :)
Personally, I think that if a lesbian couple were trying to maximize the
procreation, a good schedule would be one has a baby, the other has a
baby a year later, the first has her second a year after that, etc. But
that's not a totally unheard-of rate among heterosexual couples, either.
The biggest family I know of personally (as in, having met members of
the family and talked to them in person) has the oldest child in his
mid-to-late 20s and the 12th one is on the way. One set of twins in the
batch, the rest singletons. Oh, and the dad is an obstetrician.
Julia
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