Can You Really Choose The Gender Of Your Baby?

By Kathy Forcey

The ability to choose baby gender is a controversial issue facing many would-be parents. However gender selection is a reality that many couples all over the globe explore and has been around for centuries. There are myriad reasons why parents would want to choose one sex over the other. At the end of the day, the choice is a purely personal one. The only difference between ancient practices and modern science is that it's become easier to predict your baby's gender before you even conceive.

Couples weight whether to choose the gender of their babies for many reasons. A main reason that supported the gender selection trend was to stop gender related diseases. Scientists have long discovered that numerous diseases were associated with a particular sex, but had little ability to assist in selecting gender. Many couples faced with the possibility of inherited diseases never want to deal with the reality if it can be avoided at all.

Couples in countries such as the United Kingdom, United States, and Australia can exercise the option to choose the sex of their baby. Gender selection is progressively reducing life threatening and debilitating diseases in humans that are specially linked to gender.

Many cultures have ways to choose baby gender that are based on the female ovulation cycle. These methods have been around for hundreds of years with varying degrees of success. Diet and herbal concoctions have been recommended for millions of couples who desire a baby boy or girl, so the idea of pre-conception gender selection is certainly not novel.

Many feel that if people are given the right to choose baby gender that sooner or later one sex will overrun the other. The population of the world could suffer from this form of gender selection. But, that assumes everyone on the planet wants one gender over the other at the same time. At some point the scale will tip back into balance.

There will always be families who crave a baby boy or baby girl to balance an existing family unit. Perhaps there are families who already have one or two boys and really want a little girl or the reverse can be just as true. There is no hard and fast rule that everyone is looking to have only boys or only girls.

The surprise factor goes along with a pregnancy is gone, but for many parents they are fine with this aspect. It makes setting up things for their new baby a lot easier and it decreases the need to worry about the child inheriting a gender-related illness. - 30525

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