Gender determination
True, the process began as a way to select for girls, and true, because it is better at selecting girls it is more likely to attract couples who want them. gender determination Gender predictions. But there is something else going on as well, something Shettles and Ericsson learned a long time ago. "More want girls," Shettles says. "Definitely we heard more from women who had many boys and wanted a girl. gender determination Baby gender. "Ericsson, too. "We see more requests for girls," he says. At some Ericsson clinics, the ratio is as high as 2 to 1, despite Ericsson's own statistics showing a higher success rate for boys. gender determination Gender prediction. It is, he says, a gap that has been growing since he first introduced his method 25 years ago. In a lopsided, counterintuitive way, he insists, this is a streak of feminism, although it hardly appears that way at first, what with all the talk of ponytails, dresses and bows. "Women are the driving force, and women want daughters," he says. "And they're not apologizing about it anymore. They used to call and there would be this qualification: 'I love my two boys to death, but. . . . ' Now they go right to the Net. And there's no apology. It's, 'I live in South Jersey -- where's the closest center?"'icrosort published its first and only journal article about the births in September 1998. I filed the information in the back of my brain, where I file all the things I am not ready to confront just yet. Not until several months later, in spring 1999, did I take my first exploratory leap by typing "gender preselection" into my Web browser. I was looking for Web sites of clinics. What I found was a parallel universe, a world of women to whom the sex of their children deeply matters, and who are determined to do something about it. They were everywhere -- at the Determining Sex bulletin board at babycenter. com, at the Gender Selection message board at parenthoodweb. com and at the Gender Determination board at parentsoup. com, where I began lurking for hours at a time, scrolling through conversations that could have easily been my own. This is a sorority in which screen names double as proclamations. Some are statements of who the owner is: 4boysrus, somanygirls.
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