When I was 5 my parents got divored. When my dad and new stepmother - who weren't married yet - told me my stepmother was going to have a baby and it would be a new brother or sister I told them that it wouldn't be my brother or sister because it was 'hers' and not my mom's baby. They told me it would be my sibling because it was my dad's kid and I said "Boys can't have babies!' In my mind a boy became a dad just because he was married to the lady who had a baby. I knew nothing of sex and because no one was willing to explain how girls got pregnant it took me a while to accept my half brother as really my brother and not just some kid to play with.
A childhood belief about reproduction
others believed things like this
- i used to think that every family had a brother and sister and they married eachother when they got olderAnon
- When I was 5 I thought that baby boys came from men and baby girls came from women...— Gaz
- I used to believe that men had baby boys and women had baby girls.— Janis Smith
- I used to believe my parents were brother and sister, and that everybody's parents were brother and sister.— Rachael
- My mum told my older brother that dogs weren't allowed in London.— Fiz
- My parents told me that babies were made from dimonds under cabbage patches, that would grow into a baby.Anon