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Parents Revealing Gender Baby - Culture, Family, Travel, Consumer Reviews - Posted: 29th May, 2011 - 6:58pm
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Parents Not Revealing Gender Of Baby
QUOTE That's right. They're not saying whether Storm is a boy or a girl.
There's nothing ambiguous about the baby's genitals. But as Stocker puts it: "If you really want to get to know someone, you don't ask what's between their legs." So only the parents, their two other children (both boys), a close friend, and the two midwives who helped deliver the now 4-month-old baby know its gender. Even the grandparents have been left in the dark.
Stocker and Witterick say the decision gives Storm the freedom to choose who he or she wants to be. "What we noticed is that parents make so many choices for their children. It's obnoxious," adds Stocker, a teacher at an alternative school.
There's nothing ambiguous about the baby's genitals. But as Stocker puts it: "If you really want to get to know someone, you don't ask what's between their legs." So only the parents, their two other children (both boys), a close friend, and the two midwives who helped deliver the now 4-month-old baby know its gender. Even the grandparents have been left in the dark.
Stocker and Witterick say the decision gives Storm the freedom to choose who he or she wants to be. "What we noticed is that parents make so many choices for their children. It's obnoxious," adds Stocker, a teacher at an alternative school.
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This is the most absurd thing I've ever heard of. There is nothing ambiguous about gender. These parents are doing irreparable harm to their kids, in my opinion. Note what their son is going through:
QUOTE Because Jazz and Kio wear pink and have long hair, they're frequently assumed to be girls, according to Stocker. He said he and Witterick don't correct people--they leave it to the kids to do it if they want to.
But Stocker and Witterick's choices haven't always made life easy for their kids. Though Jazz likes dressing as a girl, he doesn't seem to want to be mistaken for one. He recently asked his mother to let the leaders of a nature center know that he's a boy. And he chose not to attend a conventional school because of the questions about his gender. Asked whether that upsets him, Jazz nodded.
But Stocker and Witterick's choices haven't always made life easy for their kids. Though Jazz likes dressing as a girl, he doesn't seem to want to be mistaken for one. He recently asked his mother to let the leaders of a nature center know that he's a boy. And he chose not to attend a conventional school because of the questions about his gender. Asked whether that upsets him, Jazz nodded.
What ridiculous nonsense. I feel sorry for the kids, because their identity as male or female is one of the most important in their whole lives. These parents have just confused the issue by letting small children make decisions for which they aren't really qualified. It's like the old 60's mantra: "If it feels good, do it." You just don't give that option to a toddler.
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I really don't understand this type of thinking, that gender is unimportant, or that a child should be allowed to choose anything they want from the moment they are born. Do these parents protect the health and physical safety of their children, or do they let them get injured first in order to teach them about danger?
Post Date: 27th May, 2011 - 6:57am / Post ID: #
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Look, there's nothing wrong with heave-hoing the old gender rules and stereotypes. These things do need to be challenged and examined by minds unfettered by traditional social mores. Through this can we achieve a more balanced approach to a mentally, spiritually and physically balanced individual and thus society.
Denying or hiding the truth will not help to attain anything they are looking for, however. This is an unfortunate case of misguided ideals.
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Bacour, I disagree that gender is unimportant. Our society seems headed for a "gender optional" environment, but it is not, in my opinion, optional. We are born with certain physical and emotional characteristics that define us. It is when we abandon these in favor of something ambiguous that we see such problems as that described in the article. It specifically states that the older son doesn't like NOT being seen as a boy, regardless of how he wants to dress. Gender is important, and it's important from a very young age.
Parents Not Revealing Gender Of Baby
Not wanting to find out what sex the baby is before its born, thats one thing (one may not want to be unindated with pink or blue clothes) but not to share the gender after its born? This sounds ludicrous. Sounds like child abuse to me. I mean confuse the child even more with trying to figure out what she/he is. Kids have enough to worry about without trying to figure out where they belong and lets face it, other kids can be cruel, this could spark off a huge bullying life for these kids without them doing anything.
Parents Revealing Gender Baby
JC is right! It' plain child abuse. I read somewhere they tried to do the same thing with the oldest kid and he told him he doesn't want to hide his gender anymore and he wants to tell everyone that he is a BOY! Well, he did and apparently the parents are ok with it for now. Where is Social Services?
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