Colorful complications

Arise in communications, children, family/societal roles and such. I was thinking about this because a bunch of people I know had kids this year. (And unlike in the past, they were all women gave birth and it was all around the end of 2009.) Everyone acts differently about this. Some people are amazingly laid back, some are grateful but seem to be quite stressed, and some are in between. Some people have kids and marry early. Some never do either. Some adopt kids because they can't have their own. Some have a spouse to help them and some don't have that. Some people have large extended families around them and some do not. Some people care for all kinds of people and just not their own offspring. Everyone has different stories...