{"id":1233,"date":"2009-03-30T07:15:19","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T12:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2009-03-30T07:15:19","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T12:15:19","slug":"bad-charlotte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=1233","title":{"rendered":"Bad Charlotte"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend, I happened to catch bits and pieces of the movie version of “Sex In the City”, which has made it to cable and which generally I liked when it first came out, and cringed once again at the scene where Charlotte tells Carrie that adopting a little girl from China facilitated her becoming pregnant.
\nI’m not the only one: there’s a terrific blog<\/a> about the challenges of infertility that explains better than I could why some women found this plot twist so offensive.
\nI didn’t know this, but the percentage of previously infertile women who become pregnant after adoption versus those who become pregnant without adoption is the same: only 3%.
\nSo, where the myth that “God is thanking you for taking care of one of his little ones” came from is a mystery. Or maybe a rationale for something that we instinctively know is wrong: tearing apart one family to make another one happy.
\nGuess we’ll never know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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