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A Canadian couple is deliberately raising a ‘genderless’ baby, so it can be free of society’s expectations. The first question on everyone’s lips is, of course: “What would Amy Chua say?”.

Proof gender bending can be beautiful. Photo: Supplied by Love Machine

Now the fabulously strict ‘Tiger Mother’ and law professor Amy Chua is a busy woman over the other side of the world. But thankfully she put all her parenting know-how into her tidy little book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.

So I decided it would be entirely appropriate to use the book as an Oracle from which one can glean wisdom on the topic at hand by randomly picking quotes.

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  • Mr Wippet says:

    06:36pm | 26/05/11

    That blue glowmesh top suits you badger. Read more »

  • Suzanne says:

    03:22pm | 26/05/11

    They’re not but unless someone tells the kid what they have and that boys/girls have those bits then the kid isn’t going to know the difference. I can kind of see where they’re coming from with this. Gender stereotypes for kids are stupid,my MIL tut tuts if she sees a… Read more »

 

A Melbourne couple’s decision to abort twin boys conceived through IVF – the weekend’s flashpoint news story – is a can of worms, a hornets’ nest and a Mandelbrot set of ethical complexity all in one.

This anonymous couple desperately want a girl. Pic: Trevor Pinder

The couple, after the death of their first baby girl, wasn’t happy with the twins’ gender and is now in the midst of legal action to pre-determine the sex of their next IVF baby.

Which, you might be surprised to learn, we can do nowadays. Some medical industry smart arse has even rebranded it ‘family balancing’.

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  • Nay says:

    12:04pm | 07/02/11

    Im a mother of two amazing gorgeous boys. My husband and I would love a 3rd child but he is recovering from cancer and we are unable to conceive naturally again. IVF will be our only option for conception if we try again. If it were put to me ‘do… Read more »

  • Terrin says:

    12:27pm | 15/01/11

    I do believe you are referring to a state law (can’t remember which state), in which a man was charged with manslaughter after causing an accident which resulted in the miscarriage of a baby at 8 months. As the baby, if delivered in a hospital, and not from severe stress/trauma… Read more »

 

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