Three weeks in quarantine: will it be a baby boom or divorce?

You suddenly spend all day every day quite... together. You're at home and your partner is also at home.

And that's not all. No. Because. The children. Are. Also. Home. All day, every day, yes.

Three weeks in quarantine: we've only just begun, but the jokes are already rolling over the internet. Will there be a baby boom in nine months, because we have nothing better to do than a little afternoon delight, or will we go through a rising irritation and mass divorce?

It seems like it will be divorce in a few weeks. Because you naturally go crazy from each other at home, when you see each other all day long and actually have nothing to do. In China, where the coronavirus all started, the peak in the number of divorce applications is already clearly visible. One office received 300 applications for divorce in just a few weeks, and now hundreds, if not thousands, of couples have applied for a divorce. In China, only ten couples per day are allowed to apply for a divorce: the government cannot handle the number of divorces. So that self-isolation is not exactly good for the relationship.

And more babies then, in nine months? It doesn't seem so: we don't have much desire to exchange bodily fluids at the moment. You hear nothing all day but that you can't touch anyone and that you have to keep 1.5 meters apart, well. According to other experts, it could still happen, a corona baby boom. According to American researchers, it will be ‘the biggest baby wave ever, in December this year, so nine months from now’. The peak in babies could also come later, because we, just when the corona crisis is over, think: oh nice, everything is normal again, let's enjoy life, let's make a baby, come on. However, it applies: people with children at home will be less likely to have another child than couples without children. There's something to be said for that: I'm at home seven days a week now with two toddlers and honestly? That's busy enough for now. So I believe that right away.

Because we may not feel like touching each other right now, but that will change in a week or so. Because honestly: what else is there to do? If you've completely finished Netflix, your iPad has no app left that you don't know, and you also don't shop online anymore because you can't go out the door anyway... Then you spontaneously start talking to your partner. And then, well, also kissing. And cuddling. Out of pure, pure boredom, that's for sure. This also happened during the well-known major power outage in America in 1965, so it has been proven before. At that time, 30 million people were in the dark for more than twelve hours and that led to... A lot of sex.

So: not cozy, because there will be a lot of divorces. And there will also be a baby boom. That will be nice, in nine months a baby bump added. It is already being called the ‘C’ generation. Because although hand sanitizer is completely sold out, the shelves with condoms are still completely full. Be wise and don't argue, but dive into bed.