Human chicken no longer able to lay her own eggs

Woman donates her eggs to help childless friends, and now may be infertile because of scar tissue and burst cysts from the procedures

Is it wrong that I'm laughing? Probably. Ask me if I care. Why, yes, I DO care - enough to laugh some more.

Just fuckin' adopt already, ya broodmare-wannabe, and tell others to do the same.

People, if you really want children, there are plenty in the world who need homes. Angelina Jolie, Mia Farrow, and Madonna can't be at every orphanage at once, you know.

Being a parent is work. In other news, water is wet.

Salary.com surveyed 40,000 mothers to find out how many hours a week they work, and what kind of work they do, as part of motherhood.

The typical mother puts in a 92-hour work week, the company concluded, and works at least 10 jobs. In order of hours spent on them per week, these are: housekeeper, day-care center teacher, cook, computer operator, laundry machine operator, janitor, facilities manager, van driver, chief executive officer and psychologist. By figuring out the median salaries for each position, and calculating the average number of hours worked at each, the firm came up with $138,095 -- three percent higher than last year's results.

So being a mother means doing hours and hours of work for no pay, supposedly for responsibilities that might pay well in the working world.

Why the hell don't they forego having kids and stay in the work world, then? If parenthood is all worth it in the end, why do they have to attach monetary value to the work done as a parent? If children are the world's most important resource, isn't raising them reward enough, more so than money?

Obviously not.

Besides, in most places children aren't legal tender for the important things in life such as food, shelter, clothing, and a six-pack of beer.

Attention, parents: Keep your goddamn kids with you, and don't bring them where they're not wanted.

Overheard in a store a couple of weeks ago, announced by an irritated-sounding employee:

"Please keep your children with you. Again, KEEP YOUR CHILDREN WITH YOU."

Seen on the door of an establishment I entered the other day:

"Children welcome WITH APPOINTMENT."

Not everyone loves your kids. Not everyone wants them around unnanounced and unrestrained. Pay attention, and quit acting like the world owes you something because you have kids. You owe the world, because it's the world that makes it possible for you to have kids and have that experience be anything other than sheer, unmitigated hell.