Strollerderby
gender
Strollerderby
Bonding With Baby, Perhaps A Little Too Soon
Finding out the sex of your baby can be a dicey proposition, for many reasons. But one key one? The sense of attachment we sometimes develop to our kids, even when they’re still in utero. A reader to the New York Times Motherlode blog, Amanda Goehring, wrote a thoughtful letter to blogger Lisa Belkin about the bond she formed with her unborn d...
Strollerderby
Swedish Couple Keep 2-Year-Old’s Gender A Secret
Sometimes babies give off an androgynous vibe. Are they a boy or a girl? Many parents try to make it clear to one and all by dressing their child entirely in baby pink or bright blue. But one couple in Sweden? They want to keep people guessing. The parents of Pop – a 2 ½ year old toddler - are refusing to tell anyone if their offspring is male o...
Strollerderby
Mums Suing Gender Predictor For Wrong Gender
Another day, another woman who apparently needs a lesson in how pregnancy works. Keven Duffy blames a gender prediction test manufacturing company for the end of her marriage. They said she was having a boy - just like her husband wanted. Turns out, she was actually carrying a girl, and Duffy says the company’s at fault for the stress that led...
Strollerderby
They Say: Women Need More Sleep Than Men
Live Science has set out to remedy the gender discrepancy in research, with more clinical trials focusing on men than on women. Their handy slide show on 5 Myths About Women’s Bodies may not be sufficient to tip the balance toward gender equality in research, but it does point out some fascinating stuff. Most of the myth busters center on repr...
Strollerderby
They Say: Having A Daughter Makes You A Leftie
So blue might be the color most associated with boys. Turns out the blue states can thank their azure hues to the parents of little girls. A conglomeration of studies about to be printed in a social science journal posit that parents' political leanings can be tied to the gender of their children. Notably, they say fathers of girls are more libe...
Strollerderby
Don’t Like Your Baby’s Gender? Sweden Rules ‘Gender-Based’ Abortion Legal
Now, according to a Swedish medical ruling, if a mother or couple discover the gender of their baby and decide “that’s what we were hoping for” they can get an abortion on that basis. Here’s how it broke down. A Swedish mother of two girls requested two abortions in a row after learning the gender of her foetus. It became apparent to doc...
Strollerderby
Court Allows 17-Year-Old To Remove Breasts
The family court of Australia has ruled that a 17-year-old girl may have her breasts removed so she can be more like a boy. The teenager had been diagnosed with "gender identity dysphoria", at a young age, a psychological condition in which a person has the normal physical characteristics of one sex but longs to be the opposite sex. 'Alex' ha...
Strollerderby
Babble Wrap: Having A Sister ‘Is Good For You’
Having A Sister 'Is Good For You' Being brought up with a sister makes people more balanced, ambitious and optimistic, research suggests. Independent Study Discourages Pap Test For Cervical Cancer Young women are being discouraged from undergoing Pap tests until later in life, at the same time as figures reveal more than three million are scr...
Mind The Bump
