Ideation that girl babies are better than boy babies.

[Supremechicken]

In my family it’s very heavily opinionated that boy babies are an ‘aww better luck next time’ and girl babies are an amazing gift.

My sisters were saying the other day that when they see a gender reveal on Facebook they don’t tend to like or react to the boy ones but the girls they feel excited for.

I don’t really see the difference .

Is there something I’m missing?

This

What a terribly nasty and grossly sexist post. It sounds demented.

I wanted a rough and tumble boy and that’s what I got, adorable and fun and sweet, million dollar smile, he is everything I ever dreamed of and more. He isn’t grooming anyone or mistreating anyone. Check yourself.

It’s funny how some posters have said they wanted girls and others boys but the only posters who have got rabidly angry are the ones trying to protect the precious menz.

I have seen it too unfortunately.... that girls are more welcomed than boys!

My mum too is very into girls and even though now that I have one of each she says that "if you have a boy you are proud but if you have a girl you are lucky"...

It is what it is. I think she would have been happier if she had two granddaughters than a granddaughter and a grandson.

Her argument is that girls are for a life and boys until they get a wife. Stereotypical she says, but correct to the bone.

You sound quite damaged. I'm sorry but you really sound like you need therapy

I do think this is a thing in the UK but on balance most cultures favour boys.

Interesting that it's a statistical fact that more marriages end in divorce where the children are daughters. At first it was thought that this was because father's appreciated sons more so were more likely to invest in a marriage that had produced sons. Now it is thought it is more to do with the stress of raising a teenage girl.

So far my boys have been loving and easy to raise, I can't say the same for girls in the family who have all been nightmares from quite early on and don't show any signs of improving as they reach their teens.

Interesting that it's a statistical fact that more marriages end in divorce where the children are daughters. At first it was thought that this was because father's appreciated sons more so were more likely to invest in a marriage that had produced sons. Now it is thought it is more to do with the stress of raising a teenage girl

cool story. Research links please?

I don't have any menz. Least of all because it's a stupid made up word. Mainly because I have three little boys. And the difference is "I always wanted boys, I thought they'd be fun" vs "I'd hate to have birthed a man, they're all abusers". Can you see why one might invoke more response than the other?

Would you have had an abortion if you'd had a son or just raised him to know he's destined to be an abuser?

www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2021/02/06/parents-of-daughters-are-more-likely-to-divorce-than-those-with-sons

I’m fact I’ll help you out @Holihobbies as I just googled it. The research as a whole has shown nothing of the sort. In fact it’s shown that stress in a relationship is more likely to result in a girl, and this explains the difference.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4411232/#:~:text=Provocative%20studies%20have%20reported%20that,evidence%20of%20fathers'%20son%20preference.

@SleepingStandingUp why do you think boys are more fun than girls?

WTF?

What a pathetic and sexist comment, basically equating my son whom you do not know with people whose behavior has nothing to do with me or my son.

My son is 18 now and is respectful of me and all of his friends including the girls. He only began dating at 18, so a few months ago, and has been on a few dates with one girl, so basically he has only dated one person so far and he told me that they have already talked and decided to take things slowly. She has dated more than he has. He is in no hurry for a sexual relationship. When he was young I taught him about personal boundaries, to not allow anyone to invade his personal space and not to do it to others. And to respect girls and women. He knows that sex is a huge responsibility and is not a thing to be flippant about. He certainly does not mistreat anyone, male or female.

I was commenting on the types of comments on here over sex preference.

Personally I'm happy I had a girl. I much prefer the stereotypical girly stuff. I like dressing her up in flowery dresses and doing her hair.

Yes it's sexist but take a look around. Society is still very sexist as a whole. Even now boys still tend to go for dinosaurs and girls princess dresses.

Yeah, same. I rarely see a thread where I think multiple posters are bad people. And yet here we are.

Well if you are the type of woman sticking limes up your foof and abstaining from sex for weeks for the sake of a girl it might explain why the relationship might be more stressful lol

I'll happily stick with my stress free marriage and lovely sons.

And you don't feel a desire to top that on its head and buy the kid a dinosaur TShirt? How old is she? What if she loves dinosaurs and robots? Likes worms and mud and football and black?

When I was pregnant with my first baby over 30 years ago, I HAD to have a girl. There was no other option—I was really irrational about it. Then I had a boy! I went on to have a girl several years after.

My babies are both grown up now and my son is the father of a boy—and I love him and everything he is interested in makes me smile. I’m embarrassed to think I ever felt the way I did. It was utterly ridiculous.

@SleepingStandingUp No!
It's obviously the double yolk I even gave it a squirt of lime and I reckon that's how I have B/G twins.

That's how you must've got your twins too because that's the only way it works so...

And you don't feel a desire to top that on its head and buy the kid a dinosaur TShirt? How old is she? What if she loves dinosaurs and robots? Likes worms and mud and football and black?

It's really difficult. The range of things that work on them are so much bigger than just what parents can influence. I'm absurdly pleased that our youngest is a little sci-fi geek (a female Doctor Who was huge in our house), though.

Ah, mine are identical. A squirt of line would have made girls. I think you used too much lime juice and it set free two eggs. Whereas I just juggled about too much and it split