It's very sweet and simple to narrate something like this, "One starry night, it happened and we lost our senses". Or it may sound a bit more exciting when someone says, "I returned home from office during my lunch break and we together enjoyed a big break". Something which is unplanned may give us greater excitement, enjoyment and may keep us haunting with memories. And a sudden sex is even more welcomed because it is after quenching your thirst that you actually get to know how thirsty you were.
But a sudden "windfall" may bring unplanned pregnancies as well. And this goes a long way to affect the future of the "unplanned" kids. Researchers at the University of Oxford have found that children, who take birth as a result of unplanned pregnancies, may lag behind in the areas of vocabulary, non0verbal and spatial abilities.
The researchers examined the data pertaining to 12,000 children who were part of a big U.K. research that focused on infants born between 2000 and 2002. The parents of these children were interviewed at three different junctures- when their kids turned 9 months, 3 years and finally 5 years.
The spatial, verbal and non-verbal abilities of the kids were tested when they turned 3 and 5. An analysis of the data suggested that children born because of unplanned pregnancies were four to five times behind than the kids who had faced planned births.
But researchers have attributed this difference to socioeconomic factors. Again, the infertility treatments of the mothers were found to have no effect on the cognitive development of their children at ages 3 and 5.
Does the finding mean that people who are well-educated, sensible and responsible can plan their pregnancies well so as to give birth to intellectual babies? If this is so, then sex will also become some type of calculation, preplanned and destined, without a touch of salt or spice.
