{"id":28781,"date":"2011-10-16T16:00:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T16:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/australian_doctor_says_parents_should_be_able_to_select_babys_sex\/"},"modified":"2011-10-16T16:00:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-16T16:00:52","slug":"australian_doctor_says_parents_should_be_able_to_select_babys_sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28781","title":{"rendered":"Australian Doctor says parents should be able to select baby&#39;s sex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parents should be able to choose the sex of any babies after their first child to &#8221;gender balance&#8221; their family, says a leading Sydney obstetrician.<\/p>\n<p>The head of women&#8217;s and children&#8217;s health at the University of NSW, Professor Michael Chapman, says Australians are more concerned about achieving a desired ratio of girls to boys in their families than wanting first-born sons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;In this country it&#8217;s more about gender balance than selecting the sex of one child,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/national\/when-parents-select-babys-sex-20111015-1lq8b.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parents should be able to choose the sex of any babies after their first child to &#8221;gender balance&#8221; their family, says a leading Sydney obstetrician. The head of women&#8217;s and children&#8217;s health at the University of NSW, Professor Michael Chapman,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28781\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,204,101,582,149,104,96,98,129,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-australia-nz","category-children","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-economy","category-health-medicine","category-life-ethics","category-marriage-family","category-psychology","category-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}