Sunday, September 06, 2009
My first niece was born at 6:01 AM, on September 6th, 2009. She was 51 cm in height and 3280 gram in weight. Her mother, my first sister, spent about seven hours in labor before giving birth to the first baby girl of our next generation. It was a dream came true for my sister because she always wanted to have a daughter. My youngest sister, a mother of two sons, also wanted her second child to be a daughter but the probability was not working out too well. I used to comfort my sister by suggesting that she could still raise her son like a daughter. It was of course not a serious suggestion, but I later realized that, from a gender equality point of view, the thought of raising a daughter to be a daughter or a son to be a son was nothing but an influence of gender stereotypes. A better suggestion should be raising your sons or daughters to be human beings who would explore, develop and realize their potentials.
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