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* In one of his standup specials, Chris Rock summed up the consequences for a child raised in the ''your mom is your sister'' solution.
{{quote| If a kid calls his Grandmama Mommy and his Momma Pam, he's going to jail.}}
 
== Comic Books ==
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* "Mandy Goes To Med School", by the Dresden Dolls, is a song from the speculative perspective of a doctor specializing in abortions... sort of. One lyric goes "How about a nine-month long vacation and a two-foot coffin?".
** Hilariously described on the band's website as:
{{quote| "The Dolls have not lost their sense of the absurd, however, and the blacker-than-black-humor on ''Mandy Goes To Med School'' finds Palmer imagining a scenario in which she and drummer/cohort Viglione play a lighthearted and childish game of let's-pretend-we're-back-alley-abortionists."}}
* Bruce Hornsby And The Range's, "Valley Road", about a hired farmhand who gets the daughter of the plantation owner pregnant. "Somebody said she's gone to her sister's / Everybody knew what they were talking about."
 
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