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Hmmm, what do you guy's think of this?
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06-30-2005, 07:57 PM | #2 |
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I'll go on record to say that I have two daughters and the next baby we have in three to four years will be our last...and I do not care if it is a boy or a girl. I love my girls and would love to have a third.
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06-30-2005, 09:54 PM | #3 |
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My teenage daughter is challenging, but my spousal unit has endeared much greater a battle. Or, was it a well desrved break?
Anyhow, I have found the lack of deployments, and wars to fight to be way more taxing than ever a girl named Tina could be!
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06-30-2005, 11:25 PM | #4 |
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::adjusts Mistress of Language spectacles:: The plural of girl is girls, Hive...
It's certainly food for thought, though. I think I'll bring this up in my psych of gender class... It'll make for interesting conversation.
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07-01-2005, 02:20 AM | #7 |
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07-01-2005, 04:36 AM | #8 |
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Hogwash! I have 1 daughter who is 20 and 2 daughters who are 17. I've been married for 23 years - no plans for divorce here.
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07-01-2005, 11:22 AM | #9 |
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Look, first off some of the percentages, such a 5%, are not major deviations.
Second, the reasoning for this is simple. It's not that sons glue marriages together, it's that one woman is hard enough to live with, let alone multiple ones... each with their own "issues".... and both of them tending to fight fairly often, as women - especially mothers and daughters - are apt to do. |
07-01-2005, 12:38 PM | #10 |
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Well, I have to agree with machinehead that their speculation seems to be a bunch of poppycock.
My wife and I planned on having two children and - just like Larry - we didn't care what gender we got. After we had two boys, people kept saying "You should try for a girl", but we weren't planning on having any more. "Besides" my wife said "with my luck I would end up with "My Three Sons". And sure enough, that is exactly what happened. [img]graemlins/biglaugh.gif[/img] The only part of the article I saw that seemed fairly logical was the point that single women might not feel the "need" to remarry as strongly if they have a daughter instead of a son. I DO think the suggestion that women feel their sons would need a male role model is correct. Of course, the same would be true for single fathers with daughters. This is a much rarer occurance, but it does happen. I believe any single parent with an opposite gender child would be worried about whether they could meet all of the childs emotional needs, whereas they would feel more comfortable and confident they could meet the needs of a same-gender child.
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