We don't do this in Australia, at least not in the government schools. None of my kids ever got to do this. It would be interesting. We've seen enough of how it works through various movies and TV shows from the US. My girls were glad to not have to do this. I suspect difficult child 1 would have failed but he says he doesn't want to have kids because there's too much chance that a child of his would be Asperger's or autistic.
The pregnant belly - it would be interesting to see how this got handled. But we do have a semi-pregnant belly thing that dads can wear so they can poke a baby bottle in the right place and 'breast-feed' the baby. A TV show a couple of years ago showed one of our Aussie presenters, Mark Trevorrow, (VERY gay) demonstrating this thing. He was using a computerised baby doll like the ones your schoolkids get. The look on his face when this thing latched on was absolutely amazing. Priceless. And totally unprompted and unscripted. I suspect given half a chance and one of these outfits he would have been volunteering to 'breastfeed' all the babies of his female friends.
They'd better not give THAT one to schoolkids to try out, it would probably push the pregnancy rate up.
by the way, on that show Mark Trevorrow also got into a pregnant belly suit and was talking to mothers about what it is like to be pregnant - all the problems as well as the rest of it. it was a sort of "Straight Woman for the Queer Guy" show.
Marg
