Fight gender discrimination even before birth

http://muslimvillage.com/2013/03/04/35824/fight-gender-discrimination-even-before-birth/

by Maryam Hedayat

March 4, 2013



What must the mother and the husband in the hospital waiting room have thought as the expectant woman emerged from her ultrasound scan in floods of tears? Surely there was something terribly wrong with the child she was carrying?

From the woman’s point of view, at least, there was indeed something wrong. But rather than having been told that her unborn baby had a life-threatening congenital abnormality or some other defects, she had, in fact, been informed that she was having a girl.

But she is not the only one in feeling unhappy with the gender of her child. Indeed, so common are such feelings of disappointment that it is now a recognized psychological condition, known as Gender Disappointment.

‘I cried in bed for two days,’ says one woman, a mother of two girls, upon discovering that her third child was also a girl.

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