Given the chance, would you select the sex
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Mellon Collie
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NO, I would probably really want to but I don't think it's a good idea to screw with fate and nature. So I'd scare the crap out of myself with thoughts of like bad karma and luck or something.
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I want my first child to be a girl, then have 2 boys after that to protect her, then adopt another girl probly or changed one of the boys to a girl and adopt a boy.....
but I would much rather have nature take it's course. If there were some way to choose the sex, i'd disregard it.
but I would much rather have nature take it's course. If there were some way to choose the sex, i'd disregard it.
EmeraldEyes
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I could never do it. I couldn't play God when it comes to conceiving my children. One of the greatest joys in life is not knowing what you're going to have! 
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After giving birth to 4 kids (2 boys and 2 girls), I would have to say, if I was to have another child and I got to pick what I wanted. It would definetly be another boy (until it reached about 12) then I'd like it to some how turn into a girl.
My boys were perfect babies.. my girls.. my god I still wonder how either of us made it past the first year.
But really, no I wouldn't want to play around with nature. Let things happen as they happen.
My boys were perfect babies.. my girls.. my god I still wonder how either of us made it past the first year.
But really, no I wouldn't want to play around with nature. Let things happen as they happen.
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I would
I looked into it before we conceived our twin girls. We had a son, and knowing (or thinking - lol) we would only have one more, I desperately wanted it to be a girl. I wanted a daughter. Call me selfish.
I read a few books on the various methods of sex-preselection available at the time and we tried them out a bit. Mostly, it had to do with timing of conception. We didn't conceive with the methods we tried, so we went back to the old fashioned method of screwing our brains out around the clock. Which did work, twice.
I have read that studies done indicate that sex-preselection would not interrupt the natural balance of the genders, as most people simply want a balanced family - i.e., one boy and one girl.
Ruby
I looked into it before we conceived our twin girls. We had a son, and knowing (or thinking - lol) we would only have one more, I desperately wanted it to be a girl. I wanted a daughter. Call me selfish.
I read a few books on the various methods of sex-preselection available at the time and we tried them out a bit. Mostly, it had to do with timing of conception. We didn't conceive with the methods we tried, so we went back to the old fashioned method of screwing our brains out around the clock. Which did work, twice.
I have read that studies done indicate that sex-preselection would not interrupt the natural balance of the genders, as most people simply want a balanced family - i.e., one boy and one girl.
Ruby
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I wouldn't "select" if I could and don't want the utlrasound or doctor's opinion of the sex before the birth either.
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Nope ...
I would be happy if I had a boy ... I would be happy if I had a girl.
I would be happy if I had a boy ... I would be happy if I had a girl.
Mensa
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Calling Dr. Frankenstein!
No bloody way! Boy, girl, it makes no difference. Start social engineering and you'll end up with the same mess they're brewing in China.
The "one child per family" policy is creating a time bomb that they're going to regret in a few years. Male babies being preferred, they abort or abandon girls because they're the "wrong" sex. This is creating a disproportionate imbalance in favour of males. What happens when those males grow up and want to marry? There's going to be a severe shortage of eligible females, that's what!
If they wanted such a policy given the traditional preference for males over females, a wiser (but not much) policy would have been to allow them to have as many girls as they wanted, but only one boy. This , too, is fraught with danger but at least it doesn't encourage the kind of wilfull disregard for girls that is endemic to the present policy.
The best policy of all is to leave everything alone and let nature take it's course.
No bloody way! Boy, girl, it makes no difference. Start social engineering and you'll end up with the same mess they're brewing in China.
The "one child per family" policy is creating a time bomb that they're going to regret in a few years. Male babies being preferred, they abort or abandon girls because they're the "wrong" sex. This is creating a disproportionate imbalance in favour of males. What happens when those males grow up and want to marry? There's going to be a severe shortage of eligible females, that's what!
If they wanted such a policy given the traditional preference for males over females, a wiser (but not much) policy would have been to allow them to have as many girls as they wanted, but only one boy. This , too, is fraught with danger but at least it doesn't encourage the kind of wilfull disregard for girls that is endemic to the present policy.
The best policy of all is to leave everything alone and let nature take it's course.
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My, my, my, my, my, my, my, my...
I do believe we may have found another of Mensa's "Hot Topics"!
I found out the gender of both my kids before they were born, actually very early in each pregnancy, because i couldn't stand for the doc to know ANYTHING about my pregnancy or my babies that i didn't know. I'd never ever do anything to choose one gender or another but i did want to know everything they knew.
I do believe we may have found another of Mensa's "Hot Topics"!
I found out the gender of both my kids before they were born, actually very early in each pregnancy, because i couldn't stand for the doc to know ANYTHING about my pregnancy or my babies that i didn't know. I'd never ever do anything to choose one gender or another but i did want to know everything they knew.
Oliver Clozoff
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I have mixed feelings about this. If I somehow had the ability to do this (and it's not that far-fetched - there are techniques that can separate sperm out by the differences in the X vs. Y chromosome on a medium with electric current), I'd probably do it, but I can definitely see some potential societal problems arising from allowing everyone to select the choice of children (as well-pointed out by Mensa).
I don't necessarily think that all attempts to modify the genomes of future generations is bad, though. There's been a lot of odd and twisted agendas that have pushed eugenics, but just like with any other scientific discovery, there's potential for good and bad. The problem is that our ethics regarding how do deal with new technologies seems to lag significantly behind the technologies themselves. We're just now starting to equitably and properly deal with organ transplants, for example. In some cases there could be good reason for choosing the sex of a child (for instance in cases where the parents have disease-causing genes on the X chromosome as in hemophilia).
I haven't done a lot of thinking about it, but I'm inclined to say that we ought to prohibit people from choosing the sex of babies until we can study and discuss the likely societal implications of such a practice. It wouldn't necessarily be as nightmarish as 1984 or Brave New World eugenics scenarios, but I imagine it would have to have some significant effect on society. We ought to think about it a lot more first.
I don't necessarily think that all attempts to modify the genomes of future generations is bad, though. There's been a lot of odd and twisted agendas that have pushed eugenics, but just like with any other scientific discovery, there's potential for good and bad. The problem is that our ethics regarding how do deal with new technologies seems to lag significantly behind the technologies themselves. We're just now starting to equitably and properly deal with organ transplants, for example. In some cases there could be good reason for choosing the sex of a child (for instance in cases where the parents have disease-causing genes on the X chromosome as in hemophilia).
I haven't done a lot of thinking about it, but I'm inclined to say that we ought to prohibit people from choosing the sex of babies until we can study and discuss the likely societal implications of such a practice. It wouldn't necessarily be as nightmarish as 1984 or Brave New World eugenics scenarios, but I imagine it would have to have some significant effect on society. We ought to think about it a lot more first.
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No.
But I imagine my mother, after having three boys would have liked to have had a girl. She got her wish - us boys had three girls in a row; my older brother had two twin girls a month after I had my daughter. When those girls would get together they were hell on wheels and would get into all kinds of trouble.
Then my little brother had two boys and two girls.
But I imagine my mother, after having three boys would have liked to have had a girl. She got her wish - us boys had three girls in a row; my older brother had two twin girls a month after I had my daughter. When those girls would get together they were hell on wheels and would get into all kinds of trouble.
Then my little brother had two boys and two girls.
Pokerman
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No.
After having two kids I can honestly say the best thing about having children....was making them.
If you dont need to go through Artificial Insemination to conceive, then I wouldn't do it....On the other hand...if my wife and I had had problems conceiving then maybe I would want to choose the genders to have one of each.
After having two kids I can honestly say the best thing about having children....was making them.
If you dont need to go through Artificial Insemination to conceive, then I wouldn't do it....On the other hand...if my wife and I had had problems conceiving then maybe I would want to choose the genders to have one of each.
morninggirl5 said:
morninggirl5, have you been reading my mind or something?
To me personally, I would rather find out at the time of birth what sex we have to go off and scramble to buy this or that for. While ultrasounds are good for detecting the possibilities of problems I guess, I don't care to know ahead of time what I my wife is having, I just want everything to go good for her and the child.
Gilly Bean
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Well, I would with the first two, so I could have a boy and a girl. Which I got, but I think I would have preferred the boy first. Woulda had more energy for him.
With the third, I would let it go natural, cause I would already have one of each. Hmm... which is kinda what we are doing with knowing the sex, since we don't know what this one is.
With the third, I would let it go natural, cause I would already have one of each. Hmm... which is kinda what we are doing with knowing the sex, since we don't know what this one is.
