Child Sex (An Unnecessarily Inflammatory Title)

I should start with a brief summary of what this article deals with given the inflammatory title of the piece. Its all about the sex of unborn children and the social implications of parents using that data to decide on whether or not to keep that child. So if you have inadvertently clicked on this blog hoping to get your twisted paedo kicks, then i am very sorry to have wasted your time. 

There is a current raging debate about whether or not it should be made illegal for health workers to reveal the sex of unborn children, for fear that the parent may, through religious or social pressures, decide on a termination if it is shown that the child is female. 

Men are considered way better than women in all cultures, and its not for me on this occasion to say whether that is right or wrong, you can make your own minds up about that one. But now, within many religious and ethnic groups having a man child is so popular that if they find out they're having a lady child, they will enforce an abortion and make you try again till you make a child a with a willy and balls. 

This problem has apparently gotten so bad that many now believe that their should be a change in law so the sex of the baby is kept from the parents. Just in case they then decide to kill an unborn child based on it's sex alone. If these religious, foreign types don't know the sex of the baby then they cant force an abortion... Problem solved innit? 

Well no, its a completely stupid idea and anybody who thinks otherwise is a moron and should be forced to commit fellatio on the nearest tramp as punishment. 

And here's why its a stupid idea... 

Firstly for selfish personal reasons that effected my life directly. I have 2 children, a boy and a girl and in both cases I found out the sex of the child at the 20 week scan. I was told that there was no guarantee and that they often get it wrong. I think they only told me this as a disclaimer in case i was a mental religious/foreign person, as they were spot on on both occasions. 

For me personally, I liked knowing for 2 big reasons... Reason 1 was purely economic, I could now plan purchases more carefully (meaning, buy things in either pink or blue) as a young family money was very tight and knowing was a genuine help to us. Reason 2 I think is far more important and that is for the last 20 weeks of pregnancy knowing that it was a boy or girl enabled me to bond and look forward to its arrival and feel far more connected when my children were born. 

The second reason why this is brain-punchingly retarded is that it is only treating a symptom of a much wider problem. What we need to do is educate and enlighten those parts of society that still, through either religious bigotry or an inherently prejudice heritage still favor one sex over another. 

If we simply act to prevent one symptom as opposed to dealing with the actual root problem we will simply be shifting atrocities. All that would happen is we would see a dip in abortions and a steady rise in child murder. And we can't make child murder any more illegal than it already is.

And that's what i think about that... and if you have read this far you can surely only be disappointed. And for that i am sorry. With its wild title and weighty subject matter this should have been a real corker of a blog. But in the end its just a saccharine tale about what a fucking great modern dad i am, some thinly veiled racism and a preachy end message that makes me sound like a pompous burke with a preposterous sense of self importance. 

:-) (irony)