HW 35 - Other Peoples' Perspectives 1

Ruben's answers:
Q:What do you feel about pregnancy?
A: I think that pregnancy is a big responsibility for both the mother and father, It is a big moment that can change many lives, in different ways.

Q:Do you think birth or death is a greater moment?
A: I think that birth is a greater moment, because some one is born and there is a new life. People ten to be sad when someone dies, and generally happy when people are born.

Q:Do you believe there is a real reason for getting pregnant besides starting a family? If yes why?
A:Yes there is because some people want to have children to pass down their legacy, and power. For example a president wants to have a child in hopes that someday their kid might be president as well.

Victor Santos (Senior from last year):
Q:What do you feel about pregnancy?
A:pregnancy requires a vast amount of responsibility and you cant allow yourself to do anything bad, like drugs or alcohol if you arent responsilbe enough, or if you dont want a kid, then just abort, or suffer the consequences.

Q:Do you think birth or death is a greater moment?
A:although both provide great lessons for others in one way or another, death is best because it also liberates the subject from the hardships and sufferings of life, whereas birth introduces you to them
however, if the person likes his life, birth might be best since it gave him the chance to see it all
so, it depends.

Q:Do you believe there is a real reason for getting pregnant besides starting a family? If yes why?
A:yes the true reason behind reproduction is evolution its in our, and every living things genetic code, to pass on genes in order to improve our species and allow it to stand the test of time the potential happiness of making a family is just a bonus, the main purpose is evolution.

Josh(Friend from Bath Maine)

Q:What do you feel about pregnancy?
A: well its a pretty broad question but i think that having kids is a great thing as long as its with some one you love and your not to young ya know.

Q:Do you think birth or death is a greater moment?
A: I think that both moments are miracles, but if i had to choose id say that death is the greater moment because its so unknown, we truly have no idea what happens when you die and i just think that's sweet.

Q:Do you believe there is a real reason for getting pregnant besides starting a family? If yes why?
A: ya i think having children is also a way of passing on knowledge and growing as a species

During these interviews i noticed a lot of people had of course different meanings about each question. A lot of different perspectives occurred because i chose to ask guys instead of ladies to see if they would most likely have a most likely different idea of this unit that were doing in class. Our generation i think knows less about birth since we aren't taught as much about birth and the big deal about it as much until we experience ourselves with being a parent. Or if we have a younger sibling and we ask our own parents how it went through. Some guys during birth leave their girlfriend all by themselves and the kid grows up without a father. So that's another reason why i chose to ask guys about their ideas to see if it was more cold hearted or more nicer towards the whole pregnancy and birth questions that i asked. 

HW 34 - Some Initial Thoughts On Birth

When I hear the word birth what comes to mind is a person dying and a new person being born, basically a new life being born and starting off fresh with a new clean slate.What comes to mind is straight off the bat pain, as we see on tv mothers giving birth they are hooked up to all these hospital equipment and stuff which isn't necessary to give birth. A lot of mothers give a home birth or water birth which don't need any medical equipments attached to them.
A lot of women while giving birth feel a lot of emotions throughout the whole process, most of them feel happy to be giving birth to their new born and maybe some mothers would be sad or not happy at all to give birth to their newborn, depends all on the mother. That's basically the main thought that goes to through my head when i hear birth. I think about the parents happiness. I know that once i have a kid myself I'm going to be happier to have a child of my own but i speak for myself of course and not for everybody else.

Questions:1) How many teens in the world are having kids?
2) What's the major risk of pregnancy? (Besides the obvious risk like the baby dying and etc.)
3) Are parents really in a state of happiness when they have a kid?