Real Teens, REAL Babies

The Longest Shortest Time

Hillary Frank | Realm

Kids & Family, Sexuality, Parenting, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Breaking robot baby news! Join us as we try to make sense of a study that sheds some shocking light on our This American Life collab from 2 years ago. … Join LST+ for community and access to You Know What, another show in the Longest Shortest universe! Follow us on Instagram Website: longestshortesttime.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Okay guys, check out this video clip that I found on the Wall Street Journal site.
0:10.9	Mothering a robot baby that burps cries and needs to be changed.
0:15.9	It's supposed to discourage teenage girls from falling pregnant.
0:20.1	Falling pregnant.
0:21.2	I love that.
0:23.5	Like oops, I fell pregnant.
0:26.6	Only though I'm playing you this clip because robot babies.
0:31.4	Remember them?
0:32.4	A couple years ago, we did a story with this American life about these baby simulators
0:38.4	that some schools use in sex ed classes.
0:41.6	The dolls have computers inside that make them cry throughout the day and night.
0:46.1	And it's actually kind of realistic because their crying patterns are based on logs kept
0:51.1	by real parents.
0:53.6	So in that story that we did, we followed a couple of students while they had the babies
0:57.9	in a program called Baby Think It Over.
1:00.8	It was a fun little story to do.
1:03.3	Then this summer on August 25th, robot babies suddenly became breaking news.
1:10.1	They were a headline all across the internet.
1:12.4	The Wall Street Journal, ABC News, CNN, the Toronto Star, Yahoo News, Mother Jones,
1:18.2	NPR, Science Magazine, The Huffington Post, and that is just the big English language
1:23.3	ones.
1:27.6	This is the longest shortest time.
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