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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
Newsgroups: net.kids
Subject: Re: How do you get a boy?
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Date: Fri, 5-Apr-85 16:42:27 EST
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	There are statistically more boys than girls born, but nore
girls survive because females of the species are healthier and sounder
physiological (that's why there are so many more old ladies than old
men). Also women don't usually go off to war and get blown away, gut
that's another story. 
	Now, about making boys or girls. There are two distinct types
of sperm. Those carrying Y (boy) chromosomes are small and fast, but
not hardy. Those carrying X (girl) chromosomes are large and slow, but
very hardy. Artificial insemination tends to produce many more boys
than girls because screening techiques are used to filter out defective
sperm, which also tend to filter out alot of the X-bearing sperms.
	My personal reaction is to take whatever you can get, and not
try to determine the sex of your child. My parents didn't want kids - I
am an accident in life. They wanted a boy - I am female. BUT, they
treated me wonderfully and I had the best of both worlds. My dad taught
me to shoot a gun, ride a horse and hold my likker, and my mother taught
me to cook and sew. I have been married five years and still use my
father's family name (I refused to change it). And I hate pink. The only
thing, in other words, that you can't do with a daughter that you can
with a son is have a pissing contest. So there.
-- 
  

jcpatilla

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