On Having Sons.

A personal discovery of gender bias for unusual reasons , or perhaps not.

Sylvia Clare MSc. Psychol
Nov 1 · 6 min read
children — boys having the kind of fun I as a girl would have understood -pixabay

I didn’t know the gender of my babies until they were born, 39 and 37 years ago respectively. It was in the days when most people didn’t know and we chose not to know. Scans had only recently started to happen anyway as part of routine maternity care. So when I shelled my little peas I was as surprised that they…

Sylvia Clare MSc. Psychol

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Mindfulness teacher, poet, author. Top writer on Quora 2018 and Medium in Parenting and Feminism. https://sylviaclare.co.uk/

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