For and Againced Choosing The Sex Of Our Children.?
958776
FOR\n- If parent's desperately want a particular sex, they may not be able to fully love a child if it was the other sex; they shouldn't, morally, I know - but it does happen\n- It can be used for good reason to enhance the child's and others' lives i.e. to make sure a boy has a brother and so has someone he can talk to and play with\n- It doesn't do anyone any harm\n- Religious counter argument: God gave us the technology and ability to create such processes\n\nAGAINST\n- Religious reasons: you shouldn't play God\n- To be a capable parent in the first place you should not be bothered about sex\n- Nature should be allowed to take it's course\n- It's morally wrong to adapt genetics to your "criteria list"\n- It undermines the love and care at the heart of parenting\n- Sex is an unimportant thing and there is no good reason to choose it that warrants meddling with genetics
602997
You take your chances. It's the father who determines the sex, and it all depends on which sperm gets to the egg first... the boy sperm or the girl sperm.
981254
The problem is that we are hard-wired to hit puberty and start reproducing in our teens, and no amount of education is going to convince the hormones to wait.  I agree with the ieea of sex deglamorization.   When we can teach our kids what it's really all about in a way that they can learn the message, we'll have evolved to where we need to be.
1009651
Hermaphrodites don't usually have both genitalia, more often then not there is a penis and a uterus/ovaries.  Most children have to have the surgery while very young and then remain on hormone therapy the rest of their lives.  So to answer your question, if a child born this way is assigned the male gender and later grows up to prefer the company of men then he is gay and vice verse.
1117741
no, there will still be people attracted to the other sex.  there will still be (pick any race here) on welfare having 20 children.  there will still be 12 year old girls having sex and getting pregnant.
604629
Hmmmm, I read about that, trying to remember right.  When conception first takes place, the gender is not yet set.  Every baby intially can be male or female, the stem cells then become arms, heart, eyes, everything, including male genitals and prostate OR female genitals, womb and ovaries, and including the ability to grow breasts if the baby becomes a female.  Can't remember when it is that the gender becomes effective, but it's early on.
363926
They can be mixed, Caucasian or asian. Officially (like for schools) they can pretty much choose whichever they want. Just be consistent.
1094954
I PRAYED for a girl. I had a girl, I had another girl and couldn't be happier. I knew I would have nothing in common with a boy child and as I am right, I am now divorced and would be seriously screwed if I had sons. I LOVE my girls. GIRLS RULE!! We do hair, nails, shop, cook, all the wonderful things there are about being a woman.
208636
The birth of my children.
130940
Not to say that it's right, but a lot of parents want a son or daughter, or maybe the other gender if they already have one. \n\nIt might would prevent them from "trying" many times for the "wanted" gender. For some men, a son is important to "carry on the family name"
551289
You could adopt, there is more to being a parent that sharing DNA.  You would have your female child, and be making her life much better than it was.
358571
Male + Female + SEX = Pregnant.  That is a true statement.
599129
No, I don't agree with it. If a person is going to care more for the sex of their baby, than the actual baby, then they don't deserve to have children.
500250
I would like to atleast have one of my own. I would also like to adopt one. I don't care what i have just as long as its healthy. If i had a boy of my own...i would want to adopt a girl and vice versa.
695608
You should be more concerned with the health of your unborn child than the sex.  There is always a reason for every thing....including the sex of your children.
196789
Although we can test for such things in embryos, we don't really have the technology to safely engineer these things yet.\n\nI strongly support testing for (and hopefully, eventually treating) a genetic disease. Is it better to have a child suffer unnecessarily? If they were meant to have the disorder, why give them any medical treatment for the symptoms later on? Why is it wrong to prevent the disorder before birth but wrong not to treat them afterwards?\n\nI also have no problem with choosing gender, as long as the couple agrees on it. The chances of our population becoming badly out of balance because of it are slim, and if it does...Well, that curbs population growth, which is a good thing.\n\nI'm a little more iffy on purely cosmetic purposes. "If it's not broke, don't fix it."
1041279
its the mothers choice