Nature always beats nurture
Rearing a daughter and a son has convinced Suzanne Harrington that boys will be boys and girls will be girls
By Suzanne Harrington
Saturday June 25 2011
http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/parenting/nature-always-beats-nurture-2805660.htmlWe may be coy about our baby's sex when it's still inside us, but once the newborn has popped out, so has the secret. What did you have, people ask? It's a girl! It's a boy!
And so begins the tsunami of pink or blue. The rush to stamp a gender straight on to your infant is intense, and if you resist, everyone else will do it for you. Colour-coded cards, toys and babygrows become a daily reminder of difference. Resistance is futile.
Unless, that is, you just don't tell anyone whether your newborn is a boy or a girl.
