As youngsters in the past, we thought of how many children
we'd like to have, two maybe three, governed perhaps by the number of kids we
call siblings. We have our grandparents, who gave birth to nine girls, the 10th
a boy, all in an attempt to acquire a gender different from their existing
offspring.
This is, however, almost unheard of post 21st century. Aside
from In-Vitro Fertilization and adoption where science has made it possible for
potential parents to choose the desired gender, could there be some hint of
truth behind natural gender selection?