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Couple's gender secret for baby touches off debate
AP ^ | May 27, 2011

Posted on 05/28/2011 7:47:27 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement

NEW YORK – Ridiculous or ultra-enlightened? A Toronto couple's decision to keep the gender of their 4-month-old baby a secret has touched off a sometimes nasty debate over how far parents should go in protecting young ones from society's boy-girl biases.

Kathy Witterick and David Stocker recently landed on the front page of the Toronto Star, explaining that they hope their third child, Storm, can remain untouched by the connotations of pink versus blue, male versus female, long enough to make up his or her own mind.

The decision has online haters and supporters of the family on hyperdrive. Child development experts, meanwhile, question the impact on the cherubic infant later in life and whether the couple has gone too far in their quest for gender neutrality.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: child; childabuse; family; gender; homosexualagenda; moralabsolutes
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To: ConservativeStatement

When the boy beats up his wuss of a father, the judge should be very lenient.


21 posted on 05/28/2011 8:45:05 AM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: ConservativeStatement

Should liberals be allowed to reproduce?


22 posted on 05/28/2011 8:57:19 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. -- John Steinbeck)
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To: ConservativeStatement
More of the Time Magazine story from the 70’s. Graduating high school in 1969 and being at the forefront of the ‘Women's Empowerment’ movement, I used to believe that children were born rather ‘gender neutral’. Then I gave birth to a son. He has been all boy from day one. Psychologists are doing a great disservice to children when they pretend that everything is acceptable, no matter who you think you are. It is a neurosis that might be treatable if the Doctors would get off the ‘I'm ok, you're ok no matter who you think you are’ mantra. I read there is an inordinate number of suicides in ‘transgendered people’ No surprise. Maybe they are treatable. The Doctors should try, at least.
23 posted on 05/28/2011 9:01:51 AM PDT by originalbuckeye
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To: Bryanw92
or wil it be toddler Storm, or pre-teen Storm, or teenager Storm, or even adult baby Storm?).

Probably "carbon-based lifeform known as Storm"

24 posted on 05/28/2011 9:04:28 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. -- John Steinbeck)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Odds are, once the kid begins to play everyone will know if it’s a boy or a girl. Boys play in a certain way, girls another. The Feminists found that out, to their chagrin.

Nature can be delayed, but not stopped without serious damge.


25 posted on 05/28/2011 9:09:10 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle
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To: ConservativeStatement

This is child abuse wrapped up in lame political grandstanding.


26 posted on 05/28/2011 9:16:46 AM PDT by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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To: ConservativeStatement

One can only deny or ignore reality for just so long, sooner or later it will bite you in the butt! It will be close, nipping at your ankles every step you take in your denial, before it does.


27 posted on 05/28/2011 9:29:46 AM PDT by gidget7 ("When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: ConservativeStatement

Who will protect society from abusive parents like these?


28 posted on 05/28/2011 9:34:13 AM PDT by Carley (OBAMA, DO YOU HEAR ME NOW.......'67 BORDERS, IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN)
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To: ConservativeStatement

There are times when the state should remove a child from the parents.

Fortunately, those times are rare.

However, this is one of those times.

Get that poor baby out of the hands of these cretins...and then we can send them to the West Wing where they will blend right in.


29 posted on 05/28/2011 9:41:33 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Da Coyote

A child’s removal from parents should be rare. It should be for cases of physical or sexual abuse. If you start removing children because the parents are weirdos and the kids are going to be screwed up, you won’t have enough normal families to foster them. In fact, there aren’t enough normal families now to foster all the children that are unnecessarily placed in the system. What do you get then? Poorly vetted homes and almost a guarantee that these children will be physically or sexually abused in the system.

These parents obviously love their children and think they are doing what is best for them. The children will be messed up but they aren’t being abused (so far as we can tell from the article). They are being taught the mixed up liberal values of their parents.


30 posted on 05/28/2011 9:52:44 AM PDT by christianhomeschoolmommaof3
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To: ConservativeStatement

Babysitter should snake in in the middle of the night with an “it’s a ____” sign.Poor kid.


31 posted on 05/28/2011 9:55:42 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: ConservativeStatement

Babysitter should sneak in in the middle of the night with an “it’s a ____” sign.Poor kid.


32 posted on 05/28/2011 9:55:55 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: originalbuckeye

LOL Yep put him/her in the yard with his siiblings and let there be sticks, etc.If it is a boy they will begin to beat each other with them.


33 posted on 05/28/2011 10:00:15 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Tzimisce

Oppps my last respence was to you and I clciked on the wrong comment....


34 posted on 05/28/2011 10:01:23 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: Tzimisce

Oppps my last response was to you and I clciked on the wrong comment....


35 posted on 05/28/2011 10:01:34 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: ConservativeStatement

Homosexuallity is not a matter of choice. It is genetic.

These parents are pathetic. There was a story a few years back about a baby boy whose penis was severed in a botched (allegedly) circumcision. Personally, I think the parents and doctor were complicit in a purposeful act of gender manipulatiion.

In any case, the birth boy was treated as a female thereafter. I’m sure it dismayed the sicko parents, when the adult “daughter” switched back to being a male. He even married. Lesson: Removing the penis and gender indoctrination will not produce a female. It’s all in the genes.

Of course, human sexuality is complex—running the gamut from pure hetero to pure homo with all sorts of in-between variations.


36 posted on 05/28/2011 10:11:31 AM PDT by dools0007world
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To: Westbrook

Toronto his a good place for them.


37 posted on 05/28/2011 10:13:15 AM PDT by PGR88 (I'm so open-minded my brains fell out)
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To: dools0007world

This has to be a joke post.

No one can be this stupid.


38 posted on 05/28/2011 11:27:22 AM PDT by jra
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To: dools0007world
Homosexuallity is not a matter of choice. It is genetic.

Wrong. No one, not even homosexual scientists looking for it, has found any genetic or biological cause of homosexuality. The very fact that there are countless numbers of former homosexuals is proof as well.

39 posted on 05/28/2011 4:27:13 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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To: ConservativeStatement

40 posted on 05/31/2011 6:55:54 AM PDT by Morgana (I speak no more)
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