“Boys Will Be Boys” - the Medicolegal Implications of Gender Disappointment
Aims Gender disappointment can be defined as the subjective feelings of sadness when discovering the sex/gender of their child is the opposite to what the parent had hoped or expected. Wanting a boy (or “son preference” as referred to in some of the literature) has been noted for generations in man...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2024-06-01
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| Series: | BJPsych Open |
| Online Access: | https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S205647242400303X/type/journal_article |