When I was small we had encyclopedias for children called ChildCraft. In one of these books was a picture of an outline of a man and a woman with an arrow pointing between their middles. For several years I was convinced that if a married man and woman stood next to each other, some sort of substance would float through the air, making the woman pregnant. You had to be grown up and married for this to happen, which is why it was okay for me to stand next to boys.
A childhood belief about reproduction
others believed things like this
- When I was little I used to think that as soon as you were married the woman automatically got pregnant.Anon
- I used to believe that woman had to pay to keep their last name when they got married!!!!!!!— Imaginative_Kidd
- I used to believe that the man had to be taller the the woman to married her.Anon
- I used to believe that having children could only happen after a wedding with the person you are married to.Anon
- My sister just recently realized that the lyric "more than a woman" wasn't 4 letter woman!— Anne
- I used to believe that women could only get pregnant once they were married and it just sort of happened Anon