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Learning Sex of Fetus at 7 Weeks: Medical Progress or Ethical Nightmare?

August 11, 2011




A new study was just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association about a blood test that can predict the sex of a fetus using a non-invasive procedure (blood test) at 7 weeks pregnancy. My colleague Kristina wrote a post explaining more about the procedure and technology at Care2. I have mixed feelings [...]

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What Difference does Difference Make? An Appreciation and Review of “Equally Shared Parenting”

May 25, 2011




Today I’m happy to welcome Andrea Doucet for another guest post on my blog. In this post she is sharing her thoughts on equally shared parenting and the book on that topic by Amy Vachon and Marc Vachon. Twenty-one years ago, my life was very focused on equally shared parenting. I was a new doctoral [...]

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Ottawa Schools Survey Teens on Sexual Orientation and More

November 4, 2010




The Internet was abuzz today with information on the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board’s plans to survey its student body. According to the Ottawa Citizen’s article Board to ask students if they are gay by Matthew Pearson, the school board is going to ask a range of questions to students from Grades 7 to Grade 12, [...]

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All I think about is princesses…

March 9, 2010




My partner is a stay-at-home dad and he sometimes fills me in on the deep conversations he has during the day with our little girl. Ones like this: Emma: Daddy, what are you thinking about? Daddy: I’m thinking about putting the tiles on the backsplash. What are you thinking about? Emma: I’m always thinking about [...]

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Should we parent boys and girls differently?

February 16, 2010




Cathy from Nurture Store asked me whether we should parent boys and girls differently. In a perfect world, I think there would be very few differences in terms of how we should parent boys and girls. As I wrote in my post on the Bias Against Boys: Are boys are girls really that different? There [...]

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IComLeavWe: Day 1

November 21, 2009




This is day one of IComLeavWe on speed. As I make my way through over 100 blogs this week, reconnecting and leaving comments, I hope to feature a couple of posts each day and also list the posts that I commented on. Featured posts: No you don’t, yes you can – lessons for our daughters [...]

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