The XX Factor: What women really think.

Daughters Devalued

A post from DoubleX writer Amanda Marcotte:

If you're interested in reading a refreshing burst of honesty today, you could do worse than Aaron Traister's piece about the different reactions he received from people when he told them he was expecting a son and when he told them, a couple years later, that he was expecting a daughter. Americans tend to think we're above the prejudices that drive people in China and India to use sex-selective abortion, but as Traister's piece shows, we're far from the angels we'd like to pretend we are. ... (Read the rest of this article in DoubleX).