Just don't like movies with black people or you have no sense of humor?

UB is fucking hilarious.

I stopped reading at "the marvelous and unjustly overlooked "Undercover Brother..." and could not continue.

Nor will I ever read another of your reviews ever again.

Seriously, WTF!?!

When my long-term beau and I married last year, we decided to make our wedding a "child-free" one. If we had included EVERYONE invited's children, we'd have had 42 kids running around. Since we ourselves have no children, and no burning desire to reproduce, we felt it was a sane choice...we were celebrating our love, not providing everyone with an opportunity to turn their children loose during a quiet evening ceremony...

What do I--a middle-aged woman with no children--do with my time?

I pursue several different avenues of self-expression(acting, writing, volunteerism(work at homeless shelters, elementary school reader, and hosting peace vigils) am very politically active, and I have begun learning new languages and taken on a new "job-job"(my term for a non-performance, non-writing-related job),too.

My husband and I are very happy. IF we decide we want a child, we would adopt an older child considered "unadoptable"(usually this means a mixed-race child, and/or child over age 7), as that would be a child who desperately needs a home. Even as a very young girl, I never wanted to give birth, but I always felt people should adopt the children already here...

One last thing: I think "child-free" should be the term for those of us without children, not "child-less". We are not "less" anything, just because we chose not to bring more children into the world.

I'd like to take issue with this line, too:

It used to be that people who were unsuccessfully trying to conceive found the disappointment too painful to talk about; now it's often all they can talk about

I'm not sure why you think that? Talking about infertility is taboo in my little corner of the world. I've never heard anyone talk about it, though I have guesses about which friends are experiencing trouble. There are tons of online places to go for support, but those are anonymous message boards where women can say things that they wouldn't in real life.

Americans are stupid and should not be encouraged to reproduce in great numbers.

We're a super power, but we should not become a super stupid super power before the end of this century.

Be certain, barren women are a blessing to this country.

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, along with this stupid movie, should be turned into Soilent Green, and then be recycled as fertilizer.

Actually, I think SCC should tell them to "get over it."

They deserve it.

Oh, come ON.

Hi SCC -- I can totally relate.

Can someone please rewrite the first paragraph of this review? I almost understood it.

"And I just smile and give them that same pseudo-sympathetic look they used to give me."

Well, isn't that nice. I'm sure your family enjoys you demonstrating the same thoughtlessness that you just spent two paragraphs complaining about.

Good review. I'll be buying a ticket just to up the sales figures for a Tina Fey movie. Intelligence in popular culture is as rare as non-bimbo'ed women, and should be encouraged.

But I'm also intrigued to see the film handles the child-worship topic. This one hasn't reached the irritating level of the "mommy wars," but it's percolating. I often feel caught in the middle: annoyed by the cheerleaders for (white) reproduction and the industry that hypes it for profit, but also irked whenever people refer to "breeders" and speak of child-rearing as *only* about narcissism.

It could be just the previews, however. With each one, my perception of the movie gets worse. Considering that the writer/director was also responsible for the two atrocious, mind-numbingly terrible Austin Powers sequels, I'm even less enthused. To its credit, Baby Mama should still be better than Harold and Kumar II.

Will someone please correct!?!?!

"At family gatherings, what do I hear from my sister-in-law and my husband's cousins? Complaints...

And I just smile and give them that same pseudo-sympathetic look they used to give me."

Living well (and intelligently) is the best revenge...:)

Damn. That already ruins it for me. She's a fucking fantastic writer. Amy Pohler gets on my nerves, but I do love me some Tina Fey (not to mention my man John Hodgeman, who I saw in the trailer on YouTube!). Not like I get to go to movies anymore anyway...

During our four-year struggle to have a second child, my husband's sister and two cousins managed to pop out two baseball teams' worth of kids among them. They were certainly within their rights to have as many kids as they wanted, but their complete lack of empathy and their barely concealed air of superiority only added to an already-stressful situation. When I was still grieving over my first miscarriage ten months after the event (and struggling to conceive again), one cousin told me to "get over it already". When my husband and I decided to skip his newborn niece's baptism two days after my second miscarriage because we were too emotional, we never heard the end of it. Another cousin called me a week after my second miscarriage to announce she was pregnant with her third child. She was so excited she just had to tell me because she thought it would make me feel better. At one point all three of them were pregnant together; as they compared pregnancies they all glanced at me with what they thought were sympathetic expressions but the smugness revealed itself clearly. They routinely excluded me from discussions about childrearing issues because apparently I was less of a mother than they were because I only had one child.

In the end I guess we got the last laugh. Our daughter, now nine years old, is happy and well-adjusted. She excells in school, has plenty of friends and has a close relationship with both of us. With the freedom to do more now that she's becoming more self-sufficient, I was able to quit my regular full-time job to start my own home-based business. My husband and I take more frequent weekend trips with and without our daughter because it's a lot easier to find reliable weekend childcare for one child than four. Life is just a lot easier in general now that we're out of baby mode. It ain't cheap, but it's manageable.

At family gatherings, what do I hear from my sister-in-law and my husband's cousins? Complaints about how financially strapped they all are because raising kids is so expensive. Complaints about how their kids constantly fight. Complaints about how exhausted they are. Complaints about how difficult it is to find a family activity that's suitable for the kids' varying ages. Complaints about how they can't pursue jobs or hobbies until all the kids are in school full-time.

And I just smile and give them that same pseudo-sympathetic look they used to give me.