A little bit pregnant

Having just returned from my wedding and honeymoon, I was quite struck when the following University of Nebraska study popped up in my email.

The bullet point: one in four American women don't really care if they get pregnant.

REALLY!

"Among women who had no children, 60 percent said they were trying to not get pregnant, 14 percent were trying to get pregnant and 26 percent responded that they were "OK either way."

And lest you think some of that 26 percent was taking a laissez-faire approach to their fertility, stop right there. Although a portion of them "want a baby" at some point, they did not mean now.

The researchers noted that physicians should start targeting that middle ground of women for important pre-conception practices like taking folic acid.

I, however, am still awed that these women are out there AND that they make up such a large portion of my friends and neighbors. I also question why U.S. birthrates are not higher if this additional 25 percent of fertile females is running around sans contraception.