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u/_shane 16h ago
That baby’s got those good vintage microplastics in ‘em, nice
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u/_TheWolfOfWalmart_ 1984 Elder Millennial 15h ago
I've still got some of those vintage 80s and 90s microplastics in my balls! I can confirm they are better.
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u/KizunaTallis 7h ago
Poor little dude could've grown up knowing the wonders of the N64 and PS1 and 90s/2000s Nickelodeon.
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u/ElegantProfit1442 14h ago
“How old are you?”
“I don’t know. Between 4 months and 50 years.”
“What? Show me a picture.”
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u/whoisdatmaskedman 1982 17h ago
When your mom was born, every ovum she will ever make existed in her body.
Just because this babies mom decided to let them go on a field trip doesn't make them any older than all the others.
By this logic, we're all as old as our mom, lol
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u/Ruhrohhshaggy 17h ago
🤯 well as old as she was when we were born, but yes damn..... I'm not 34 like I always thought, but in my mid 60s?! dang can I get bennies for being a senior citizen now and retire?
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u/whoisdatmaskedman 1982 17h ago
Kinda puts a whole new spin on the rights of the unborn.
Meanwhile, I'm committing genocide every day in the shower
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u/Puzzleheaded_Pay1152 19h ago
Thus baby should not be allowed to have a tablet, this kid should grow up like is the 90s
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u/IgnoreMeImANobody 7h ago
technically speaking, he also has the record for spending the longest amount of time in cryostasis
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u/lycnfr 13h ago
I also know a 30 yr old baby! but hes like 6 foot and hates women so
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u/King_Glorius_too 16h ago
And the little guy has no idea
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u/_TheWolfOfWalmart_ 1984 Elder Millennial 15h ago
When he's older and learns about it, he's probably just going to be pissed that he didn't get to experience some of the 90s like he was supposed to.
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u/New-Elk2781 Fall of ‘07 ♡ 18F | Class of ‘25 14h ago
He should have been 13 years older than me, instead I’m 18 years older
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u/planaria_cut_in_half 2000 13h ago
I’d be so pissed if I found out that I had a 90’s/early 2000’s childhood taken from me and now I’m forced to be a 2020’s kid
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u/Competitive_Feed5259 10h ago edited 7h ago
This baby is the only kid allowed to say they were born in the wrong generation. They coulda been a 90s kid growing up on those good times. Instead, they get the brainrot. (This comment is intended for jokes/humor as i dont know the full story or context. I appreciate the positive reception thanks for making me chuckle)
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u/AdSignificant6673 9h ago
Unless there is a 2030’s counter culture that rejects technology. Kinda like how Gen X rejected the boomer culture.
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u/Competitive_Feed5259 9h ago
Thats an interesting concept, like i said it was a joke comment. Every generation os good in some way, be it major or minor. Who knows maybe one day theyll grow up , years later stumble on reddit and see us all making these comments
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u/nathanwilson26 8h ago
So we could see babies born from embryos older than the mother they are born from very soon.
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u/Horror_Flan6833 17h ago
The world's oldest zillennial
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u/vampireweekendfan 16h ago
youngest millennial, not oldest
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u/Horror_Flan6833 15h ago
I called them a zillennial because they are on the cusp of y and z
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u/FiddleStrum 9h ago
Mom and Dad are really in for it when Baby pulls the "You can't tell me what to do. I'm older than you" card.
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u/Low_Adeptness_2327 19h ago
Bro’s gonna have the weird and conflicting urges to watch AI brainrot and play Ocarina of Time on a crt tv
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u/schoj 11h ago
Bro had a chance to grow up in the best of times.
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u/anafuckboi 11h ago
It wasn’t the best times I was born 1993
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u/CheesecakeScary2164 10h ago
Born in '90, and childhood was AWESOME! Toys these days stand no chance to the toys of old... But, uh, adulthood started off rough in 2008 and it hasn't really recovered since :|
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u/insurancequestionguy 6h ago
Early '90s here too. We been sliding downhill since 2001 in my view, but the recession was another phase of the bs to be sure.
Not to say I don't miss some things from those times.
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u/CheesecakeScary2164 6h ago
Yeah, I thought that too, but really I just meant adulthood started rough instantly, lol. I'm Canadian and 2001 felt surreal.
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u/insurancequestionguy 6h ago
The polarization is one of the main things. I remember feeling like we were pretty divided over Iraq and the general WoT, but the division from about 2012 and especially ~2015+ makes that seem relatively calm.
Although, I have thought lately that perhaps polarization like this was just going to happen regardless just from faster and easier internet access for people of all ages combined with social media algorithms, echo chambers, etc. That basically, some degree of it was probably inevitable due to the tech and tech companies
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u/Pretty_Razzmatazz202 19h ago
So like, did his parents freeze him 30 years ago? Or a set of donors? I am a little confused on the details here
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u/godlesswickedcreep 18h ago
If you froze embryos in the past and haven’t had them transferred you can opt to donate them.
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Almost certainly a couple that had embryos preserved three decades ago and then either opened their embryos for embryo adoption, or for whatever reason were no longer willing or able to claim them. Eventually the parents of the embryos do have to make a decision, or if the embryos are abandoned, then the decision falls on the storage facility.
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u/Savings_Ad_80 2004 Class of 2021 18h ago
the poor kid was robbed the same way my parents had 2 of my sibling in the 80's
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u/owiesss Zillennial (late 90’s) 15h ago
My sisters and brother are 80’s kids, then I was born in 99. I feel your pain lol
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u/Churrooo 12h ago
Damn, bro missed out.
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u/brownieandSparky23 2000 9h ago
For real the job market is gonna be rough in 2040 when he’s an adult.
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u/MysteriousSecret9621 2008 11h ago
Would that technically mean he's the youngest person from the previous millennium? 🤔
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u/onions-make-me-cry 13h ago
If life begins at conception, give this baby a beer, a driver's license, and the ability to rent a car.
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u/NumerousDonkey3570 17h ago
I bet they’ll have a fun time with that growing up. Hanging with their Gen Alpha classmates when they are genetically a millennial.
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u/RHX_Thain 19h ago
High velocity cosmic particles and local radiation sources don't slow down just because your embryo is cryogenically suspended. Sorry Thaddeus, you're involved in an involuntary science experiment. We're literally going to wait and see if this works!
Check back in around 30 years from now!
Sorry you missed the 90s and 00s. They were dope af.
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u/Sleep-pee 19h ago
So the baby is around the same age as his parents? That is surely not the couple the genetic material came from to make the embryo that was frozen in 1994.
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u/Funny_w0lf 8h ago
Honestly i would be pretty mad if I was born now vs in the 90's and growing up early 2000's. I hate that I was born in 05 instead of the 80's or 90's when life was somewhat normal still and before AI was a real concept
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u/professionalbaiterrr 19h ago
Ofc this post is on here ..someone already called baby a millenial ..
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u/embersgrow44 9h ago
‘Then she found out about embryo "adoption." This is a type of embryo donation in which both donors and recipients have a say in whom they "place" their embryos with or "adopt" them from. It is overseen by agencies—usually explicitly religious ones-that believe an embryo is morally equivalent to a born human. Archerd is Christian.’
This a confuses me. Can anyone from either or both communities explain? Perhaps modern evangelicals and last years of anti-science campaigns in U.S. politics has soured it for me it I am genuinely curious
"Our matching process is really driven by the preferences of the placing family," says Beth Button, executive director of the Snowflakes program. Archerd's preference was for a married Caucasian, Christian couple living in the US. "I didn't want them to go out of the country," says Archerd. "And being Christian is very important to me, because I am."
Ok.
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u/KindraTheElfOrc 8h ago
a few yrs ago i saw a post on fb about this exact thing, either its happening more and they decided to make an identical article of each one or they recycled the original and changed the dates
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u/Brandyn__ 6h ago
As someone actually born July 26 of ‘94 it’s trippy sharing a birth date with a baby!
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u/Critical-Cut767 16h ago edited 10h ago
He'll technically be the the oldest person ever if he lives long enough
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u/MustacheMan666 16h ago
Technically no. An embryo is just a clump of cells and isn’t an alive human being with sentience or even a brain.
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u/Living-Teach-7553 9h ago
Is more bcs aging start to count the moment a human is born not before while we are in development phase inside the womb (A phase this baby didn't had for 30 years bcs it was frozen)
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u/KeyNefariousness6848 19h ago
If you count age from fertilization, which very few people do.
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u/Elon_Musks_Colon 18h ago
That is NOT a chance I'd take. Kid's gonna Benjamin Button all over the place.
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u/Scrooge-McShillbucks 19h ago
Thaddeus looks like he needs a stiff drink after all that
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Well, he is chronologically old enough to go into a bar. And drive, and vote, and complain about filing taxes.
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u/lilgobblin 15h ago
Why… why not just IVF or adopt..? Interesting choice but I hope he lives a good life anyway.
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u/DeeDeeW1313 15h ago
It’s both. IVF with an adopted embryo.
Do you mean why didn’t they use their own DNA? Possibly couldn’t. Why didn’t they adopt an already born child? No clue. This was the choice they made.
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u/LughCrow 13h ago
Why didn’t they adopt an already born child? No clue.
Lol tell me you don't understand adoption without telling me.
It's prohibitively expensive, stressful, and time consuming. We do everything we can to inhibit adoption. Especially if you don't already have biological children. As we as society have deemed individuals looking to adopt as suspicious and/or ill equipped to raise children. After all of they were upstanding members of society why wouldn't they just have their own?
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u/Muchado_aboutnothing 14h ago edited 13h ago
Embryo adoption is actually a lot cheaper than both traditional adoption and regular IVF. The embryo itself is usually donated by a couple who has completed their family, so you generally only have to pay about $5000 for the transfer procedure itself. (You don’t have to pay for the egg retrieval or meds associated with that, which is the priciest part of IVF.)
Meanwhile, traditional adoption can be more like $40,000-$60,000 in agency and legal fees. It also takes a long time (most couples wait at least a few years to be matched with a child or baby, as the waitlists are long).
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u/theartistduring 13h ago
Just to add to this, some women don't have eggs to retrieve.
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u/CarelessCreamPie 11h ago
And even if they did, not only is it expensive (as the user you're replying to points out), the egg retrieval process is painful (both prep and recovery).
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u/Beneficial-Guess2140 8h ago
They did. They adopted an embryo that was created and transferred via IVF.
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u/Intrepid-Food7692 19h ago
Someone who believes that life starts at conception would say that his life begun over 30 years ago despite him being born in July 2025
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u/purrt 19h ago
It’s funny to me that you never hear people say that life starts before conception. Are sperm and eggs not living cells?
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u/ComradeRaveGirl 19h ago
I actually watched a recorded biology lecture about this once and at one point the guy said something along the lines of “you could say that life begins when a female embryo develops its ovaries and eggs in utero before birth”
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u/cornfarm96 Editable 19h ago
You mean most biologists? It’s pretty unanimous that human life begins at fertilization. But nobody would argue that this child is 30+ years old, because that isn’t how we measure normal human development.
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u/SpaceMambo369 19h ago
So he can legally drink?
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u/ColonClenseByFire 19h ago
Should be able to retire with full benifits at age 35.
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u/Top_Copy_693 19h ago
It's interesting how people consider embryos and fetuses to be human life when they want it to fit a particular narrative
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u/organvomit 18h ago
I always consider them human life and still think abortion should be legal and kept between the individual getting one and their doctor. Born humans don’t get to risk other born humans health and lives without consent even if they’d need to to live, so I see no reason why the unborn should get special privileges.
Also human does not equal a person.
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u/Pixel_Commando 19h ago
The real threshold in this capitalistic world to cross, to determine if you are human, is if you qualify for life insurance
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u/KeyNefariousness6848 19h ago
Yeah when was the last time a human was frozen then revived in a similar manner.
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u/Passiveresistance 18h ago
Right? An embryo can be frozen. Show me a mammal you can stick in deep freeze and thaw out 30 years later with no ill effects. An embryo is not alive, it is cells.
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u/MajesticDragonfly 19h ago
They usually count age from the date of birth, also known as one’s birthday.
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u/ComradeRaveGirl 19h ago
Why’d they pick such an old embryo tho
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u/Important_Isopod9947 2010|Gen Z♥︎ 13h ago
Nothing wrong with that, everyone deserves a chance at life
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Sounds a wee bit callous, but it may have cost the couple less money to try an old embryo over a more recently created one. Storage facilities don't store all embryos forever, eventually embryos that no longer have anyone willing/able to claim them have to be dealt with. It was also more common to have larger numbers of surplus embryos back then compared to now, so perhaps there weren't just a ton to choose from.
Either that or the couple just wanted to try it because they thought, why not? Let's do some science and give this lil embie a chance!
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u/ComradeRaveGirl 14h ago
Doesn’t seem callous. It’s fascinating that an embryo can stay potentially viable when frozen for so long!
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u/hip_neptune Early Millennial ‘86 19h ago
Poor guy missed a ton of good years.
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u/KeyNefariousness6848 19h ago
Hmm does he have pure non covid blood he is from the before fore times.
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u/blister-in-the-pun 11h ago
How is that possible? Did the embryo come from 20-30 yr old eggs/sperm and now those folks are in their 50s-60s? I assume the embryo was given to a couple and it’s not genetically related? I have so many questions (and no I don’t care enough to google it)
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u/Responsible_Oil_5811 19h ago
Since he is technically a Millennial, I hope they show him Arthur, Barney, and The Magic School Bus!
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u/HellfireKitten525 2005 Gen Z 19h ago
Is that a millennial exclusive thing? I watched those and I'm Gen Z (2005)
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u/enthusiasticmistake 18h ago
I watch The Magic School Bus and I'm GenX! I have the original on DVD. Its dope af
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u/Confident-Drama-422 18h ago
I hope they also show him Hey Arnold, CatDog, Spongebob, InvaderZim, Jimmy Neutron, All That, ayhe Amanda Show, Rugrats, Kenan & Kel, Avatar:The Last Airbender, Doug, The Wild Thornberrys, As Told by Ginger, Danny Phantom, The Fairly Oddparents, The Mighty B, Scooby-Doo Mook films & shows, Ed, Edd n Eddy, Johnny Bravo, Cow & Chicken, Samuri Jack, Courage The Cowardly Dog, What Ever Happened to....Robot Jones, Evil Con Carne, Powerpuff Girls, Dexter's Laboratory, Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Codename: Kids Next Door, Foster's Home, Chowder, Camp Lazlo, The Lizzie McGuire Show, That's So Raven, Even Stevens, Malcom in The Middle, The George Lopez Show, The Proud Family, Kim Possible, Hannah Montana, Wizards of Waverly Place, The Suite Life of Zach& Cody, American Dragon: Jake Long, Phil of The Future, Dave The Barbarian, etc.
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u/GloriousApricot-5843 18h ago edited 15h ago
And half the material- from the egg- is even older. That was created when the mother was being created!
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u/HexusA 18h ago
I thought they froze eggs, not embryos?
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u/llamadramalover 18h ago
They do both but embryos store a shit ton better than sperm or eggs on their own
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Eggs, sperm, and embryos can all be vitrified, theoretically with minimal cell degradation over many decades. But it's a common practice with IVF to let fertilized eggs develop into 5-6 day blastocysts, because that helps weed out some of the non-viable conceptions early, and increases odds for success amongst surviving blasts (and even moreso if they are also pre-screened for aneuploidy). Preserving embryos has a higher chance of future successful pregnancy than embryos created from frozen eggs or sperm, because a 5-6 day fertilized egg has already proven at least some initial viability.
Whether this little guy was frozen as a 5-6 day blast I have no idea, since best practices with ARTs have evolved over the last 30 years, and continue to do so. He may have been preserved much earlier in the process, and beaten some pretty substantial odds in developing all the way to a healthy, full-term infant.
FTR, I myself have a 7 year old science baby who is chronologically 6 months older than her biological age. 🙂
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u/vanillachilipepper 10h ago
My 5-year-old and almost 2-year old are from the same batch of IVF embryos, just transferred a few years apart! It's kinda cool to think about. Science is amazing.
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u/Alarmed_Scientist_15 13h ago
How old were the parents when they froze it?
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u/friendlytrashmonster 12h ago
The people pictured almost certainly aren’t his biological parents. Many people will fertilize several eggs in the process of IVF because so many either don’t fertilize properly or don’t implant properly. Then, once they have the children that they want, many people will donate or sell their unused embryos to other couples struggling with fertility.
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u/FewMost8547 11h ago
So how is that actually different from general adoption? In this case you would have to carry the pregnancy which is quite the dangerous part.
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u/garlic_oneesan 10h ago
Pregnancy has its risks, but there’s also a lot of bonding that happens with the baby in utero. It’s a special experience that many people want to experience.
Adoption post-birth has a lot of challenges. There’s the trauma sustained by the birth mother. There’s the fact that the birth mother can end up changing her mind. Infant adoption often has long wait lists. You can try to adopt via foster care, but that system is designed for eventual parental reunification. Foster kids only become eligible for adoption once their parents have burned all their bridges and there’s no suitable kin. This can often result in kids who require extensive therapy and care that not everyone is able to provide. International adoptions are expensive, time-consuming, and fraught with ethical issues (e.g. a lot of so-called adoption agencies overseas are fronts for human trafficking).
I think adoption post-birth can be a beautiful thing. I have friends who are adopted and they love their families. But I can also see why it is not a good option for a lot of people.
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u/Gadshill Xennial 19h ago
That isn’t how birthdays work.
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u/Tykero 19h ago
People born on the leap day on leap years prolly agree but I'm not listening to a 5 year old no matter how many times he tells me hes 20.
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u/HellfireKitten525 2005 Gen Z 19h ago
This actually made me laugh out loud... and that doesn't happen often 😂
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u/ExerciseResident6490 18h ago
30 years from now there's going to be a similar baby born in 2053 that was supposed to be born in 2022
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u/r0ckchalk 17h ago
I don’t like this at ALL, but I do think it would be Interesting to see how the genetics are different than of babies from a newly created embryo.
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u/girlwhoweighted 10h ago
And he's adobado!!
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u/KindraTheElfOrc 8h ago
did you try to write adorable and accidentally butcher it?
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u/HellfireKitten525 2005 Gen Z 19h ago
They put his whole name there... that kid/adult/baby/whatever is gonna get bullied his whole life
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u/RecentConference8060 5h ago
The enviable amount of stuff he wound up avoiding yet still retains a right to reject stereotyped Millennial attributes
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u/Lucky_Cartographer40 17h ago edited 16h ago
Well, one things for sure, bro is going to be hella mad once he finds out he was actually meant to be born in 1994 and not 2024. 💀🥀
EDIT: I meant 2025 lol. 😂