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Add to FavoritesI am the result of my parents desperately wanting a boy. If my mother would not have wanted to please my father on giving him a boy, I would not have been born into such a loving family.
Did I feel unwanted? Never!
Did I feel unloved? Never!
Was I told that my parents really wanted a boy and got a girl? Yes I was, when I was old enough to understand.
Would I have known, if I wasn't told? No, not really because my father being a builder took me out on jobs with him. He taught all us girls, the three (3) of us, how to hammer and build and be independent.
Did my mother try a fourth time? No she decided to call it quits after I was born.
By being born a girl, it gave me the opportunity to do the things that I wanted to do. If I had of been a boy, I would have been pressured into being a builder like my father. Of playing football like my father, whereas being a girl gave me the freedom to do whatever I wanted to do.
I have been blessed that I have had both a girl and boy, and yes I did everything (the old wives tales), of trying to conceive the opposite to what I had already, but would not go any further than that. I was told in the early stages of my second pregnancy that it was a girl and yet I still did not believe technology until she was born, even though the test I had was 99.99999% accurate.
We use fertility treatments to allow people to fall pregnant, but that is where it should end.
Societies focus too much on 'you are nobody unless you conceive a boy'. Why? I have as much determination, strength, character, wisdom than any other person has, so what makes me not as equal to than if I was a boy?
In some families I have seen that the entire attention is paid to the boy and yet they are not any smarter than the girl, no better in wisdom than the girl, but the girl is just left out of so many things.
People should try some of the old wives tales and see what happens. I learned mine from a magazine article written on Steve Irwin, where he wanted a boy. He even sat on ice cubes to cool things down. Animals do similar things depending on the heat of the nest (crocodiles) depends on the number of females vs males.
The difference of wearing boxers vs underpants can also make a difference. Try it!
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If we take a different view of things, consider what technologies we now have and apply it to determining the outward features and mentality of your own baby it's not so far fetched or immoral even. If it's true that we all have a soul one way or the other, does it matter the outcome gender wise? We are a species that tend to seek out and search for ways to make our lives easier. I don't think it is so terrible to have the ability to choose a baby based on gender as we certainly take great lengths to make sure the baby is healthy, not deformed or have some form of mental illness.
We already choose our pets, dogs, cats and what color to get, so why not a baby? I'm sure many people have prayed for a boy or for a girl but is it really left up to God anyway? I submit that if we left God and his will out of the equation for this topic that it may shed a different light on the subject. Divine intervention may have gone the way of the Old Testament, or maybe there is the occasional answer to a wish,a hope or a prayer. Either way if one thinks about it in religious fashion the body is just a vessel for our spirit anyway.
I understand that we as a being hold life in very high regard and choosing to mess with it can evoke great emotion for some and so be it. It is true that we know where to draw the line with our own technology which is why cloning was such a hot topic of discussion not long ago. When it comes to things like accepting a choice of sex prior to conception, or during it, it's all about understanding the method and presentation to the public. Obviously if it is, or was to become possible to choose such a thing, surely we would have to know all of the potential ramifications.
If the question was to change a post born child to a parents liking I'd say absolutely not because the child is debatably already what it's going to be. If we came up with a reasonable, feasible and flawless technology to choose eye color, hair color and gender at conception then I'd say go for it.
It does sound sort of Hitler-like to want a pefect child in some ways but it's more a matter of getting what you want if we ever have the ability to choose.
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