Six-year-old Sylvie comes home from school after her first lesson about babies.
Her mother asks, “So, how did the lesson go?”
Sylvie says, “Paul said his parents adopted him from an orphanage. Aline said she was adopted from another country. Christine said she was created in a laboratory. And Jean said his dads paid a woman to carry him in her tummy.”
Her mother smiles and asks, “And what did you tell them?”
Sylvie sighs and says, “Nothing. I was too embarrassed to tell them that my mommy and daddy were so poor, they had to make me themselves!”
Explanation: The humor comes from a child misunderstanding reproduction and modern family planning methods. Sylvie hears elaborate adoption, IVF, and surrogacy stories, then assumes natural conception must be the “cheap” option.
