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Title: Nature always beats nurture
Post by: Shana A on June 25, 2011, 08:31:07 AM
Post by: Shana A on June 25, 2011, 08:31:07 AM
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.html (http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/parenting/nature-always-beats-nurture-2805660.html)
We 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.
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.html (http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/parenting/nature-always-beats-nurture-2805660.html)
We 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.