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The wrinkle for Josh and Cornelia is that they don't have kids, at an age when babymaking -- particularly in baby-centric Brooklyn -- is the chief activity of all their friends.

Now, one could be naughty and use "gawa" in the sense of babymaking, and that adage would lose its wisdom with the new formulation: "Let's just make babies and leave everything to God's mercy."

twenty years after spanning a boom, a twelve-year babymaking, giving me

Verhey argues that in condemning the rupture between genetic and social parenthood the Vatican overreaches its legitimate concern that lovemaking and babymaking "be joined to the covenant fidelity of marriage and family." (41) Concern about the covenant fidelity of marriage and family does not, Verhey insists, require either that lovemaking and babymaking always be joined, nor that genetic parenthood and the parental vocation to nurture a child ever be sundered.

For instance, Mamo claims that lesbian babymaking is where "sex without procreation meets procreation without sex." But couldn't you apply that description to infertile couples of any sexuality and gender?

"If you're looking for where to put the blame for the bump in teen babymaking in the U.S.," she writes, "try the George W.

at 1357 ("[O]ne reason for lumping the unmarried lovers with the divorced or widowed sisters is to make clear that becoming designated friends has nothing necessarily to do with sex, romance, or babymaking.").