ituitary's responds by trying to change the females body chemistry. Perhaps it will stop the female's menstrual cycle (Blender 37).A different article supporting the nurture side says parents use gender socialization. In fact, "many parents prefer boys to girls because of stereotypical ideas about the relative importance of males and females to the future of the family and society"(Kendall Page 3). Considering all cultures, boys are definitely preferred over girls particularly when there are limits on the number of children parents can have. To be specific, China regulates the population allowing one child per family, leaving many female fetuses aborted. "In India, the practice of aborting female fetuses is widespread, and female infanticide occurs frequently (Kendall Page 1). Obviously, in both China and India there are numerous men and very little women their age.It is also known that parents act toward children on the basis of the child's sex. Girl babies are always thought of as three things: cute, sweet, and cuddly. As soon as a girl baby cries the parents normally respond quickly. On the other hand boy babies are thought of as less delicate than girls and tend to receive more roughness from the parents (Kendall Page 4).Even children's clothing and toys display gender expectations. Take boys' clothes for example. They usually display baseball players and superheros or any masculine idea. The opposite goes for girl clothing because is very feminine with lace, bows and flowers. As far as toys go boys tend to be associated with blocks, trucks, soldiers, guns and sports equipment. Girl toys would contain dolls, especially Barbie dolls, play makeup, and play house items (Kendall Page 2). "A group of college students in a recent study were shown slides of toys and asked to decide which ones they would by for girls and boys. Most said they would buy guns, soldiers, keeps, carpenter tools, and red bicycles for boys; girls w...
