Around the Web…

Some stories for your Wednesday afternoon:

• A British father drops the court battle to keep his baby alive — CNN
• Ways to self-induce for the overdue mom-to-be — The Cradle
• Though moms push their kids to succeed in school, a study says they don’t always help pay for it — ParentDish
• How to handle friends’ pregnancy announcements when you’re still trying to conceive — AlphaMom
• Advice on dealing with gender issues in young children’s lives — lilSugar

Comments

The article about “gender” issues incorrectly uses the term “gender”. Gender and sex are NOT the same thing. Sex is physical, penis/vagina, while gender is how you feel biologically/mentally. You can be a physical female in sex but a male in gender, hence there are transexuals.

- Colleen on November 11th, 2009

Colleen, if we’re going to be really picky about this gender is actually a grammatical term. As in a word can be masculine or feminine. It was hijacked by a prominent feminist scholar (I’ve completely drawn a blank on her name) and now we use it to mean whether a person is masculine or feminine. Although increasingly, as the article does, it means sex. I’m currently doing a course in Gender and Justice, and a dissertation on Gender and the roots of citizenship, and it is much more than just sexes.

- Rachel-Jane on November 11th, 2009