Annals of "not being observant"

Apparently any number of otherwise sane-looking people have decided that it is somehow offensive for an expecting mother to cradle her baby bump, and journalists have come to the rescue by trying to explain why this might be normal behavior.


Now maybe I'm a bit amused by this, having watched Mrs. Bubba carry our six babies, but one thing that seems to have escaped these journalists is that caressing one's baby bump (or one's wife's, for that matter) is simply a natural reaction to how incredibly cool it is that a woman's body is nourishing a baby in there.  Sure, it has benefits for Mom and baby, too, but it says something about our society that many women have absolutely no clue about the process by which a woman becomes a mother.  


We might infer that isolating children from families in public schools and colleges, as well as Roe v. Wade, have wreaked a wicked work in the minds of too many of us.