"Selecting a baby’s sex, and therefore, saddling that child with it’s parental gender expectations is perhaps the greatest burden a child could live with." Disagree wholeheartedly. The greatest burden is betrayal.
I was adopted as an infant. My adoptive parents wanted a child to love, and they adopted me and later my sister. My biological parents were in their mid forties when I was born; they were engaged, each had children in their twenties, and they thought the best route was to give me up for adoption. Both sets of parents treated me with love.
My wife is also adopted. She was chosen to be given away from among a gaggle of their children by two parents. Betrayal. She was adopted by two parents with very different motivations than mine. Suffice it to say that the pedophile was the better parent. Betrayal again. She just turned 70 and her life remains affected.
There are many burdens far worse than living with parents' selection of your sex.
"Selecting a baby’s sex, and therefore, saddling that child with it’s parental gender expectations is perhaps the greatest burden a child could live with." Disagree wholeheartedly. The greatest burden is betrayal.
I was adopted as an infant. My adoptive parents wanted a child to love, and they adopted me and later my sister. My biological parents were in their mid forties when I was born; they were engaged, each had children in their twenties, and they thought the best route was to give me up for adoption. Both sets of parents treated me with love.
My wife is also adopted. She was chosen to be given away from among a gaggle of their children by two parents. Betrayal. She was adopted by two parents with very different motivations than mine. Suffice it to say that the pedophile was the better parent. Betrayal again. She just turned 70 and her life remains affected.
There are many burdens far worse than living with parents' selection of your sex.
Hi Ric - questions- how was your biological father and your stepdad towards you?