Why is this a problem for the media, or society in general? As long as these parents are raising a healthy and happy child, why should ANYONE care what the sex of the baby is? Would that make us love it more/less? Why do we need to form an opinion of someone before that someone is even old enough to form an opinion of itself? Furthermore, why do we need to categorize people in order to understand them? Stereotypes are the first rung in the ladder to prejudice, and prejudice is at the heart of the struggle for women's equality. Perhaps this mother is trying to do her child a service by letting them choose, the way civilized humans are SUPPOSED to behave?
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Baby+Storm+mother+speaks+gender+parenting+media/4857577/story.html
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