Poll: Choose your babies gender?

[Stryc9]

Nope. It's unsound from a population dynamics perspective.
By god, if I'm going to bring a child into this world, I want it to be stochastically.

No for pretty much the reasons they said, if you unbalance the population too much the whole human species is fucked.

 

[Mental Mage]

I'm unsure. At this stage in my life, I couldn't raise a male child. I just couldn't. I suffer from severe androphobia, and I probably wouldn't be able to touch the child. My cousin just had a baby a few months ago, male, and I can barely stand to be in the same room. Not even a small one, but a big room.

I'm not good with children at all, but with a daughter I should be able to at least try. I hope I'll be able to overcome these problems, it is a bit annoying. If I do, I'd probably still be closer to, and have an easier time with a daughter than a son, but as it is now, if I had a child, the nicest thing I could probably is to ensure that it's female, or put it up for adoption. (Or adopt a girl, of course)

As to wether it'd be dangerous and all children would be males. Bring it. If people are stupid enough to think it's better to have male children and no one wanting a daughter, then let them have their way. Let them realise how stupid they are, and let their traditions, and misogyny die out with them, when that is their last generation. I'll happily write down the irony of what happened on the tombstone of their culture. When unnatural means bring about natural selection. Just lovely. I'd even buy them a flower.

(And if this is people in America wanting a cool football player-son, or people in India or the middle east thinking females are worth less, or people in Africa who use them as commodities doesn't matter. They really did cause it themselves, so in that case, let them all die, for all I care.)

Imho if you think you have to "try" to raise a child, then I suggest you stay away from that particular calling, for the simple logic: What if you try and fail?.

For me, it'd be more about planning. I'd like one boy and one girl so I always have one child I don't want to run screaming from. In the early years, the girl would be nice because they tend to mature faster, and (at least in my experience) are less annoying. As we get into the teenage years, it reverses itself. I'd much rather deal with a male teenager than a female one. So, short of having the ability to change my child's gender on the fly (which would be decidedly weird), I'll go with at least having one child I don't find really annoying at a time.

The problem with that is that every kid is different. And having two males or two females makes them act different then if you had one of each, just one, or three. Then your influence as a parent comes in... in other words its a heck of a lot more complicated than just what gender your child is. And even if the kids were perfect stereotypes there are ups and downs to everything. Say for instance your male teenager. If they fit the stereotype then they would smell horribly, be unorganized, only be interested in inserting tab A into slot A or B. Be rude and crass. But unlike girls with the mood swings they would stay like that. I dunno just something to chew on.

 

[LOOY]

No, but only because I don't care, not because of some "Moral" reason.

 

[Toasty]

I couldnt choose. so no. will be a suprise. only think I want 3 kids at most tho

 

[AllHailTheAltmer]

Dude, no. Child birth is a totally natural thing. I would feel wrong interfering in it. Plus it's a system too liable to abuse. There are some advantages, I understand that. But I wouldn't do it.

 

[Sewblon]

No, it just seems incredibly selfish and petty. Also, I want a son to perpetuate my perplexing last name, but I am also slightly curious about what it would be like to have a daughter so I could have more than one or go either way.

 

[Ionami]

My dad had 6 boys.

I would like to have a daughter at some point in my life, as well as a son, and based on THAT roll of the genetic dice, I would like to ensure that I DO get a daughter.

By the way, it IS possible to do this procedure nowadays...

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Story?id=97287&page=1

 

[Mrsoupcup]

NONONONONO, I for one am not going to fuck with an unborn childs genetics!!!

 

[Hithlain]

If it was proven safe, sure. Why not? I'd love a girl and a boy

But yeah. DNA manipulation just screams "birth defect" to me. (As in, accidental side effects and etc.)

 

[new_age_reject]

You should never be able to tamper with what your child will end up like, it's against nature, otherwise what is the point of having 23745172365 sperm each with an equal chance if you are just gonna change what sex it is.

 

[RheynbowDash]

Proooobably, yeah. I want a baby girl so bad.

Me too, i've wanted to be a dad since i was about 15, and i've always wanted a girl.

 

[Fronken]

Now why the hell would i want to do that? :S, where's the suprise in that?

 

[jamesworkshop]

Personally if people want to do that I don't see much of a problem either so few will bother or so many will that individual desires still ensure a fairly equal male/female ratio.
As for myself I wouldn't bother why pay what is probably a lot of money when 50% of the time I would get a prefered gender anyway

 

[asteroth21nox]

well soon we will start crossing technological thresholds where one must wonder if we are playing god or not. Mark my words, in our life time we will see amazing things which will make us wonder where the line between playing god is.

 

[Iceman23]

In regards to choosing the gender of my child I would have to say no, if I were choosing it simply because I preferred to have one gender over the other. To me that seems to be kinda selfish on the part of the parents that they would rather force their child to be a specific gender, a decision that the child will have to live with for the rest of their life, instead of simply accepting them for the who they are when they're born and raising them that way.

Now if it were to avoid a disease that was common in one or both of the parents families in one specific gender, then I wouldn't have a problem with it.

 

[Noamuth]

In regards to choosing the gender of my child I would have to say no, if I were choosing it simply because I preferred to have one gender over the other. To me that seems to be kinda selfish on the part of the parents that they would rather force their child to be a specific gender, a decision that the child will have to live with for the rest of their life, instead of simply accepting them for the who they are when they're born and raising them that way.

Now if it were to avoid a disease that was common in one or both of the parents families in one specific gender, then I wouldn't have a problem with it.

Well said.

.. And my God, your avatar just made my day. What the HELL. XD

 

[Iceman23]

In regards to choosing the gender of my child I would have to say no, if I were choosing it simply because I preferred to have one gender over the other. To me that seems to be kinda selfish on the part of the parents that they would rather force their child to be a specific gender, a decision that the child will have to live with for the rest of their life, instead of simply accepting them for the who they are when they're born and raising them that way.

Now if it were to avoid a disease that was common in one or both of the parents families in one specific gender, then I wouldn't have a problem with it.

Well said.

.. And my God, your avatar just made my day. What the HELL. XD

It's always good to know that my avatar gives the people who see it a laugh, and thank you for the response to my post.