You both fell in love with idea of having a kid. You debated on the philosophy of children's books, whether he/she would start off at a Montessori school or a private preschool.

You both had radical and utopian ideas of childrearing.

Your mom gave you implicating looks of the “why-aren't-you-married?” kind. So far, it didn't seem necessary. The child brought you to another phase in your relationship.

The baby came, and grew and grew. You were model parents. Who knew?

“ There is no longer the social taboo of having a child out of wedlock,” according to Rash Magazine. The static state of dogmatic religions, governments and social behavior has been contested for the greater part of this century, burying archaic stereotypes of gender roles and family designs. The typical married couple with 2.5 kids is not obsolete, but it no longer reigns as the only veritable example. We have nuclear families, broken families, hybrid families, urban tribes and a variety of other combinations that go on indefinitely.

The End.